An ICRC mission, meanwhile, has found that people around Bow, 40 km south of Bentiu in western Upper Nile, were able to stay in their villages and cultivate crops despite intense fighting in the region in the past few months, an ICRC report stated. Thanks to abundant rainfall this year, the coming harvest is expected to be good and “economic security has generally improved since April”, it said, while cautioning that this might not hold true for the entire Upper Nile region. With the onset of the dry season, the populations visited will move into nearby swamps with their cattle for the next four to five months, it said. ICRC distributed fishing equipment and mosquito nets to 6,000 households of 13 different Nuer sub-clans to help ensure an adequate diet and protect health.
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