Sudan Refugees Face Disease in Camps in South Sudan

Civilians fleeing fighting and hunger in Sudan are living in overcrowded camps in neighboring South Sudan where they face worsening outbreaks of disease, flooding and poor sanitation, international aid agencies said.

Hepatitis E has killed at least 16 people in recent weeks in camps sheltering 106,000 refugees in Maban County in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state that Oxfam called “ticking time bombs” in an e-mailed statement today. “Conditions are dire and survival remains a struggle,” the International Committee of the Red Cross said. People drink polluted water on the ground because clean supplies are scarce, it said in a statement.