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Copy evidence from articles that support each topic, you will use these quotes later to create evidence sentences for your essay.
Violence:
Violence spread across the young nation like wildfire, displacing 413,000 civilians in just the first month of conflict.
Tens of thousands of civilians rushed to seek refuge in U.N. bases that were subsequently turned into makeshift displacement camps.
The scale of sexual violence is particularly shocking: in five months last year, from April to September 2015, the UN recorded more than 1,300 reports of rape in just one of South Sudan’s ten states, oil-rich Unity. Credible sources indicate groups allied to the Government are being allowed to rape women in lieu of wages but opposition groups …show more content…
Fighting between the two factions of government forces loyal to each soon moved to Bor, and then to Bentiu.
Refugees/ Displaced:since the conflict began 1 in 5 people in south sudan have been displaced. More than 2,3 million citezens have been forced to flee there homes.
Poor Infrastructure:
The larger cities in South Sudan had experienced some development, but the majority of the nation is rural. Even before the crisis, more than half of its citizens lived in absolute poverty, were dependent on subsistence agriculture and suffered from malnourishment. Many people were already refugees and were only beginning to resettle and rebuild their homes.
Disease:
Communicable and waterborne diseases like cholera and malaria spread quickly in these conditions.
The risks are also high for other infections caused by contaminated water, malnutrition and weakened immune systems.
Children are hungry and thirsty. If they get desperate, they may end up drinking dirty water that could give them an
Copy evidence from articles that support each topic, you will use these quotes later to create evidence sentences for your essay.
Violence:
Violence spread across the young nation like wildfire, displacing 413,000 civilians in just the first month of conflict.
Tens of thousands of civilians rushed to seek refuge in U.N. bases that were subsequently turned into makeshift displacement camps.
The scale of sexual violence is particularly shocking: in five months last year, from April to September 2015, the UN recorded more than 1,300 reports of rape in just one of South Sudan’s ten states, oil-rich Unity. Credible sources indicate groups allied to the Government are being allowed to rape women in lieu of wages but opposition groups …show more content…
Fighting between the two factions of government forces loyal to each soon moved to Bor, and then to Bentiu.
Refugees/ Displaced:since the conflict began 1 in 5 people in south sudan have been displaced. More than 2,3 million citezens have been forced to flee there homes.
Poor Infrastructure:
The larger cities in South Sudan had experienced some development, but the majority of the nation is rural. Even before the crisis, more than half of its citizens lived in absolute poverty, were dependent on subsistence agriculture and suffered from malnourishment. Many people were already refugees and were only beginning to resettle and rebuild their homes.
Disease:
Communicable and waterborne diseases like cholera and malaria spread quickly in these conditions.
The risks are also high for other infections caused by contaminated water, malnutrition and weakened immune systems.
Children are hungry and thirsty. If they get desperate, they may end up drinking dirty water that could give them an