Aid agencies in South Sudan require $1.27 billion, including $16 million for Mine Action, to assist 3.2 million people suffering the humanitarian consequences of the crisis in South Sudan.
The conflict, which started on 15 December 2013, has led to devastating humanitarian consequences: the lives of millions of citizens have been shattered; almost 900,000 have left their homes; and thousands more have been hurt or wounded as a direct result of hostilities. Livelihoods have been lost, and people’s ability to move livestock to pasture, to fish or to hunt, has been severely compromised.
Mine Action partners will support the overall humanitarian response by removing explosive remnants of the conflict, to ensure civilians are safe, and humanitarian partners can access areas where heavy fighting occurred. They will also provide risk education to people living and working in areas of explosive contamination.
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