South Sudan is struggling to cope with the increasing flow of refugees pouring from neighbouring Sudan, where a six-month conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Visiting the country this week to assess the situation, three French MPs met with President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar.
, visited the Gorom refugee camp, west of the capital Juba, while also holding meetings with a number of South Sudanese politicians.
"We are calling on the world to pay more attention to what is happening in South Sudan," said Charlotte Hallqvist, a spokesperson for the UN's refugee agency, theThe Franco-Sudanese friendship group has stressed the importance for France to increase its contribution to ease the humanitarian crisis, which Marion says is"bound to inflate in the coming weeks and months".
While the camp once hosted around 3,000 people from Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, it has seen a sudden influx of 7,000 new arrivals from Sudan. "They both also voiced a genuine need for help from France," Marion said."They feel that their country has been abandoned and left alone to face a humanitarian crisis."
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