It is Wednesday 23rd July in Gorwai, a small village of Ayod - TopicsExpress



          

It is Wednesday 23rd July in Gorwai, a small village of Ayod County in northern Jonglei State, South Sudan. We – a team comprised of UN agencies and NGOs that had been dropped in by helicopter two nights before – snapped out of our sleep at around 6 am by the usual sound of artillery fire popping from the direction of Ayod town, in the East. These are the sounds that keep the displaced population , that which the team has come to help, very much on edge. These are sounds of the very fighting that triggered their flight from their towns and villages to this isolated, rural, relatively peaceful place in the middle of the bush. Read more here ec.europa.eu/echo/en/field-blogs/stories/south-sudan-fear-their-hearts-even-trivial-overwhelming
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:57:14 +0000

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