Highlights:

• About 2,000 refugees arrived into Unity State from Sudan’s South Kordofan over the week, indicating a possible surge in arrivals on the horizon.

• Movements of UN humanitarian workers were limited in the Abyei area, following mounting tensions resulting in the death of a national staff member of the UN peacekeeping mission, UNISFA.

• Flights of extremely vulnerable returnees from Khartoum to Aweil were suspended after a plane carrying 57 returnees crash landed in Aweil. Fortunately no serious injuries were sustained by the passengers.