UN ‘withholds’ aid from camp on Sudan border say refugees, ex-UN official
+255787000634 PLEASE USE THIS NUMBER FOR ANY PROBLAME Copyright kamanda msofe By Daniel van Oudenaren -- The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is deliberately withholding humanitarian aid from more than 16000 Nuba refugees in Yida Camp in South Sudan, according to refugee leaders and a former senior UN official who visited the camp. The UN agency justifies its policy on the basis of security concerns and it says it is offering expanded services at another site where it intends to resettle the refugees. Dr. Mukesh Kapila, formerly the top UN aid official in Sudan, accuses UNHCR of ‘conditionalizing’ aid in order to pressure refugees to relocate farther from the border with Sudan. Yida Camp in northern Unity State of South Sudan is only a few kilometers from Sudan’s South Kordofan State, where the Sudan Armed Forces and Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North have been fighting since June 2011. Most of the Nuba refugees at Yida refuse to relocate to UNHCR’s