About 40,000 people have been displaced, following renewed fighting in South Sudan’s oil-rich Upper Nile State.
UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in its latest update, the said threats of violence continue to hamper humanitarian response in the State.
It also added that the displaced people were living in dire conditions and required urgent life-saving assistance.
Last week, ceasefire monitors said they would send a team to investigate the ongoing deadly clashes in the State.
Fighting has been reported in the State since mid-November, involving the National Army and the Maiwut opposition forces.
There are also reports of renewed hostilities in the Fashoda area between different ethnic rival groups.
A prominent civil society group, the ‘Community for Progress Organisation’, CEPO, confirmed that it received credible reports from civilians about armed youths amassing troops in the State over the weekend.
