30/06/2012
(MSF*) – Water has already run out in one of the temporary gathering places for around 30,000 newly arrived refugees in South Sudan. Because the existing refugee camps in the area are full, the new refugees initially settled at a new temporary gathering point. As water supplies ran out, refugees began to move to a second site as well.
A mother prepares a meal for her children on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei which was burned during the ethnic clashes. UN Photo/I. Billy
They are sleeping under trees, with no shelter, virtually no food, and a quickly diminishing water supply. In this field news update, Erna Rijnierse, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical team leader, describes the situation and the urgent need for the refugees to be relocated to a better place.
There is nothing that is not difficult here. In just one morning at the first refugee site we witnessed six deaths. We had one woman who was so dehydrated that when she came into the clinic she died on the spot. It is certain that people are dying, it’s very certain that people are suffering, it’s very certain that this is a crisis. We cannot watch as this unfolds—we have to push as hard as we can to improve the living conditions of these people.
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30/06/2012
By Shahira Amin*
Cairo’s Tahrir Square exploded in joyous revelry and fanfare on Sunday afternoon after Counsellor Farouk Sultan, the Head of the Elections Commission announced the results of the presidential run-off vote in a nationwide televised address.
Celebrating Morsi’s victory. Photograph by Lorenz Khazaleh. Source: Thinks Africa Press.
Counsellor Sultan named Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi the winner with 51.73 per cent of the vote and by a slim margin of 800,000 votes. The announcement ended days of speculation over the results of a vote that has polarised Egypt and accentuated a decades-old secularist/Islamist divide.
Supporters of Morsi’s opponent Ahmed Shafik meanwhile expressed their anger and shock at his defeat. Some insisted that “the result was incorrect” while others said they would pack and leave Egypt altogether. Most people in Shafik’s camp were secularists who had voted for the former regime man (the last prime minister under Mubarak) out of fear that Islamist rule would mean intolerance and the stifling of freedoms.
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