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South Sudan

MapAction responds to crisis in South Sudan

Juba, 17 Mar – Two MapAction volunteers are travelling to South Sudan to provide mapping support for the United Nations and humanitarian partners.

This is MapAction’s second deployment to South Sudan, following an earlier mission in 2014. The situation in-country continues to be of acute concern. Many communities are living in precarious conditions, under threat of conflict and without health services or clean water. The United Nations estimates that 1.5 million people have been displaced and 4.1 million will need life-saving support in 2015.

MapAction's volunteers will be working with colleagues from the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) to support the collection and analysis of key data to help coordinate the response to this protracted and highly complex humanitarian crisis.