With 1.4 million people still living in camps, and a majority of the people in Darfur still suffering from inadequate access to basic health care, education and other services, the challenges remain enormous.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Access to healthcare in Jonglei State is extremely limited after looting of NGO clinic and evacuation of aid organizations.
• Meningitis outbreak in Upper Nile State is contained, with 83,000 people vaccinated.
• Health partners treat survivors after around 27 people are killed in inter-communal violence in Upper Nile State.
• Food insecurity is on the rise in Warrap State and 12,000 people urgently need assistance.

I. Introduction

DRC, Sudan and Somalia continue to host the highest number of IDPs and persons severely affected by conflict. A new report provides in-depth analysis of the situation in 12 countries.

Highlights

UNHCR began on 06 May 2013, the relocation of 18,200 Sudanese refugees from flood prone Jamam refugee camp, to the new site, Kaya, ahead of the onset of this year’s seasonal rains.

Clashes between host and refugee communities in Doro camp illustrate the possible threat of civil unrest across Maban. Efforts are underway to bring the two communities together.

Over 95% of refugee children have been immunized during the national polio immunization campaign this month.

Seeking to improve their living conditions, UNMISS and the UN refugee agency in Upper Nile State donated non-food items to inmates at Malakal Central Prison today.

Receiving blankets, plates, cups, sleeping mats and soap from the mission and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Acting Prison Director John Othow Ador said the items would be very useful to prisoners.

“This is a clear (indicator) that you are really concerned about human rights issues,” said Maj. Ador.

30 percent of the refugees in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan have not received shelter. The protection team of the Danish Refugee Council is working against the clock to assess and provide solutions to the most urgent needs by the most vulnerable refugees.

"I have been sleeping outside under a tree," Samari Ibrahim says pointing to the spot she normally chooses. She is living alone in the Doro camp. "My children are all dead," she says, not knowing her own age, just aware that "I am old now."

Highlights

• The killing of the Ngok Dinka Paramount Chief in Abyei sparks new tensions between the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities.

• Aid agencies mobilise resources to meet the needs of some 40,000 newly displaced people in parts of South Kordofan.

• According to humanitarian agencies, the total number of people displaced from Labado and Muhajeria is estimated at 60,000.

• About 10,000 people flee their homes near Nyala following inter-tribal clashes in the Bulbul Abugazo area

The refugees, mainly women, children and a growing number of older people, have escaped conflict and hardship in Sudan's Blue Nile state, but the influx is likely to slow when the rains come.