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The number of displaced people rose by 70,000 in August, reaching 1.91 million, as hostilities and inter-communal violence persisted, contributing to movement. Torrential rains hit Aweil and Northern Bahr el Ghazal and created flooding that affected 20,500 households. Towards the end of August, fighting subsided in Baggari, Wau County, Western Bahr el Ghazal. The people that had fled from populated areas face a severe lack of food, shelter and health services. In Unity, fighting persisted, this time in Kuergeng, Koch County, and in Nimni, Guit County. There were cattle-raids in Bor South, Jonglei. In Bor, an estimated 3,600 IDPs arrived in Leudiet village near Bor town, fleeing from inter-communal conflict in Thoony village in Baidit. In Upper Nile, more than 500 displaced people from Malakal Protection of Civilians (PoC) site returned to Wau Shilluk. Another 700 people of the Shilluk community moved from the PoC to Owachi in Panyikang County.