Five years after the fighting broke out, has 15,000 children were separated from their parents or disappeared in the orosdrabbade the country.
south Sudan was thrown into a bloody conflict, 2013, by reason of a power struggle between president Salva Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, a quarter of the population have been forced to leave their homes, and the economy has collapsed.
has been on the run. Since 2013, the united nations children’s fund, Unicef with its partners managed to reconnect 6,000 children with their parents or guardians.
”Every reunion is a result of months or sometimes years of work to trace missing family members in a country as large as France, but with only the basic infrastructure,” says Leila highway take the pakkala, Unicef responsible for eastern and southern Africa.
Children that come from parents are at greater risk of violence and abuse. Even when they reunited many need the support of charities.
the south sudanese government and the country’s largest rebel group, a maktdelningsavtal, which gives hope that more humanitarian aid to be inserted. And help is needed. According to Unicef 1.2 million children are malnourished, which is the highest figure since the conflicts broke out. 2.2 million children are not in school, which is the largest proportion of children compared to any other country in the world.
Unicef is appealing for 179 million dollars in humanitarian aid for the next year to cope with the relief effort.
