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Crisis creates void in OLS

    NAIROBI

    UNOCHA on Wednesday confirmed the evacuation of 149 NGO workers from 11 of the 35 organisations working as part of the Operation Lifeline Sudan consortium in SPLM-controlled areas. This represented the “temporary loss of a significant proportion of the humanitarian resources” provided by the OLS and “created a void” in its ability to provide adequate humanitarian assistance to south Sudan, an OCHA press release stated. Emergency response, health, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation programmes would be hardest hit - with the impact on some parts of Bahr el Ghazal and Jonglei of particular concern, it said. The UN urged donors to maintain their support to the OLS.

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