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South Sudan 'preventing aid to Jonglei victims'

"The area in Pibor county where the population is hiding will flood during the imminent rainy season.

"This will not be a place where people can remain alive."

He said that from the charity's years of experience of Jonglei it knew that without medical care mortality rates would rise rapidly, with people dying of pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, malaria and diarrhoea.

Repeated requests by MSF to the authorities to travel to the area where people are hiding in the bush have been denied, the charity said.

Following decades of conflict with Khartoum, South Sudan is among the least developed countries in the world.

The rebel group led by David Yau Yau, which is involved in the recent clashes in Jonglei state, has attracted support from youths of the Murle ethnic group.

The Murle are believed to have been angered by the activities of South Sudanese troops stationed in the area, who are mainly drawn from the rival Nuer community.

The two ethnic groups often clash over cattle, leading to deadly vendettas.

Source: BBC

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