Koch County authorities mobilize over SSP22 million for returnees

BENTIU, OCTIBER 19, 2023 (SUDANS POST) – Local authorities in Koch County of South Sudan’s Unity State have said that they have mobilized at least 22 million pounds to assist citizens returning as results of the ongoing conflict in neighboring Sudan.

Speaking to Sudans Post on Wednesday, the Chairperson of Koch County Relief and Rehabilitation Commission Ruot Riak Teny said that the money will support returnees who came from Sudan via Nyaruop Port.

“They have no food and the money that we mobilized will enable them to buy food as they wait for humanitarian response,” he told Sudans Post in his office in Koch town, adding that the money was mobilized in eight Payams of the county.

“It’s the first ever fundraising we have conducted in Koch town, and we are now handing over the money to returnees so that they will buy food for their children,” he said.

The senior local government official further thanked Koch County Commissioner, Gordon Koang Biel Char, for supporting the mobilization of the money for returnees.

The Sudanese conflict which begun in April this year has resulted in the return of hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese and the UN has said several times that the conflict will have negative impact on the already dire humanitarian situation in South Sudan.