{"id":21739,"date":"2010-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/?p=21739"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"south-sudan-faces-humanitarian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2010\/08\/south-sudan-faces-humanitarian-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan faces humanitarian crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUBA, Aug 19 &#8211; South Sudan must prepare for a &quot;real crisis,&quot; whatever the outcome of an upcoming referendum on the potential partition of Africa\\&#8217;s largest country, the south\\&#8217;s humanitarian minister warned on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aid agencies and the United Nations should be ready to cope with massive displacement of southerners, said James Kok Ruea, Juba\\&#8217;s minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The needs will be enormous, so we will need your support,&quot; said Ruea, speaking in the southern capital to a room crowded with the heads of UN and international aid agencies. &quot;We have to be ready, we have to have plans.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The south is expected in January 2011 to vote in a referendum set up under a 2005 peace deal, which promised it the chance to choose independence or to remain part of a united Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan is still recovering from decades of war with the north, during which about two million people were killed in a conflict fuelled by religion, ethnicity, ideology and resources, including oil.<\/p>\n<p>Ruea put forward three possible scenarios following the vote, each with massive humanitarian demands.<\/p>\n<p>If independence, preparations must be made to support the estimated 1.5 million southerners in the north, who may then return to the south, Ruea said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We will be faced by the coming of the refugees &#8211; we will be faced by the people who are now living in the north,&quot; said Ruea. &quot;People will be coming, and we will not be prepared.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions remain high between the mainly Muslim north and the grossly underdeveloped south, most of whose inhabitants are Christian or follow traditional beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>If unity, disappointed southerners &#8211; the vast majority of whom appear to support separation &#8211; will probably react in anger, said Ruea.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There will be disappointment, and that disappointment would also (lead to) crisis,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People would not want to be in a system of destabilization, Islam-ization, Arab-ization and marginalisation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And if the vote is blocked or disrupted, Ruea warned of dire consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If the Islamic system in the north decided to interrupt the smooth running of the referendum, then what do you think the situation is going to be?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There will be tension and likely it will go back to war,&quot; the southern official said.<\/p>\n<p>The south is already struggling with several armed clashes this year between rival groups.<\/p>\n<p>At least 700 people have been killed and more than 152,000 forced from their homes due to violence in the south since January, according to UN estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What happens when fighting takes place? People are killed, properties are lost, the most vulnerable group are children, women, and elderly people. There would be massive displacement,&quot; Ruea warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA, Aug 19 &#8211; South Sudan must prepare for a &quot;real crisis,&quot; whatever the outcome of an upcoming referendum on the potential partition of Africa\\&#8217;s largest country, the south\\&#8217;s humanitarian minister warned on Thursday. 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