{"id":4756,"date":"2014-08-09T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2014-08-09T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T09:15:17","slug":"horrific-conditions-in-flooded-south-sudan-un-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/horrific-conditions-in-flooded-south-sudan-un-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Horrific conditions&#8217; in flooded South Sudan UN camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40,000 people who fled fighting in South Sudan are staying in horrific conditions at a UN camp, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says.<\/p>\n<p>Many were living in knee-deep, sewage-contaminated floodwater with some sleeping standing up with children in their arms, the medical charity said.<\/p>\n<p>MSF urged the UN to move the worst-affected to drier land in Bentiu.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting between government and rebel troops has displaced at least 1.5 million people since December.<\/p>\n<p>The UN is yet to respond to MSF&#8217;s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Bentiu has changed hands several times since the crisis began and thousands of people have sought refuge in the UN camp in the town, situated in oil-rich Unity State&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28714774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40,000 people who fled fighting in South Sudan are staying in horrific conditions at a UN camp, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says. Many were living in knee-deep, sewage-contaminated floodwater with some sleeping standing up with children in their arms, the medical charity said. MSF urged the UN to move the worst-affected to drier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,2776,4695,1950,1951,257,3019,254,4700,733,3514,3020],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bentiu","tag-east-africa","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-oil-rich-unity-state","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-un-camp","tag-unity-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}