HIGHLIGHTS
- Dozens of conflict-related casualties reported in Akobo County: Humanitarian companions report dozens of sufferers wounded in current preventing are being handled at Akobo Hospital. Their situation stays precarious as a consequence of unreliable entry to emergency referrals and important life-saving medical care.
- Mass displacement in Jonglei: Since late December 2025, renewed preventing and airstrikes in Jonglei State have displaced an estimated 280,000 folks, in accordance with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC), considerably growing humanitarian wants throughout affected counties.
- Health services broken and looted: Since the onset of hostilities, 12 well being services have been looted or partially destroyed, 4 in Uror, 4 in Nyirol, three in Ayod and one in Duk, severely disrupting important well being providers and additional limiting entry to look after susceptible populations
SITUATION OVERVIEW
As of 13 February, the humanitarian scenario in Jonglei State continues to deteriorate amid escalating clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-iO). The preventing is driving displacement and additional constraining humanitarian entry. Partners reported dozens of conflict-related accidents at Akobo Hospital in Akobo County, with sufferers at heightened threat as a consequence of restricted emergency and life-saving care.
In a press release issued on 13 February, the members of the Security Council expressed grave concern at escalating violence in Jonglei and Eastern Equatoria, and all through the nation. They strongly referred to as on all events to de-escalate and instantly stop renewed hostilities and to resolve points via peaceable dialogue. They pressured that this deterioration and continued violations of the peace settlement are undermining stability and worsening humanitarian wants.
UNICEF warned on 13 February that displaced youngsters face grave safety dangers, together with killing and maiming, recruitment into armed teams, household separation, gender-based violence, and extreme psychological misery.
In Uror County on 9 February, two suspected unexploded ordnance incidents have been reported: an explosion in Dik Village injured two youngsters, whereas one other in Yuai killed a teenage boy and injured one different; all survivors have been transported to Poktap Health Facility. On 8 February close to Walgak Town, Akobo County, armed males allegedly detained seven girls who had returned to gather belongings and subjected them to sexual violence at gunpoint. One survivor died from her accidents; the others fled into close by bush areas.
Speaking on the Red Hand Day commemoration in Juba on 13 February, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General/Humanitarian Coordinator, Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho, referred to as for intensified efforts to forestall little one recruitment and finish grave violations towards youngsters. The Head of the Child Protection Unit inside the SSPDF, Chapline Ashraf Khamis, underscored the necessity to tackle rising youth gang exercise alongside armed group recruitment.
On 12 February, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) assertion reported that civilians are more and more bearing the brunt of renewed preventing throughout South Sudan since late 2025, describing it as probably the most vital escalation in practically a yr, significantly in Jonglei State.
On 13 February, the Humanitarian Coordinator met the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Hon. Albino Akol Atak, to debate entry constraints in Jonglei State and a deliberate joint mission to Duk Poktap, Duk County. The Minister indicated that assurances had been obtained from safety actors that humanitarian operations can resume throughout Jonglei State, reaffirming a shared dedication to scale up help in conflict-affected areas.
HUMANITARIAN IMPACT AND NEEDS
- Displacement: According to the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, greater than 280,000 individuals are displaced throughout Uror, Nyirol, Akobo, Duk, Ayod, Canal/Pigi, Twic East and Bor South counties following escalating tensions and airstrikes in Jonglei State. Reported figures embrace 105,400 in Uror; 57,200 in Nyirol; 27,100 in Duk; 17,000 in Ayod; 11,800 in Akobo; 10,000 in Canal/Pigi; 8,000 in Twic East; and 4,300 in Bor South. Secondary displacement has been recorded to Upper Nile and Lakes states, together with 29,500 folks registered in Mingkaman (Awerial County, Lakes State) and roughly 12,000 arrivals in Ulang County, Upper Nile State, primarily from Nyirol. Host communities and fundamental providers are beneath extreme pressure. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has verified 186,596 displaced folks as of 4 February (Flash Update), with verification ongoing. The majority are girls and youngsters.
- Shelter and fundamental wants: Displaced households are sheltering within the open, beneath timber, or in makeshift buildings, with restricted entry to meals, well being care and safety providers. Most are counting on already overstretched host communities.
- Health – Cholera: Cholera circumstances are rising in conflict-affected counties. As of 12 February, cumulative circumstances for the reason that outbreak began in September 2024 reached 98,195, together with 1,619 deaths. In the previous seven days, 100 new circumstances and two deaths have been reported throughout six counties. The highest numbers have been recorded in Duk (29), Mayendit (24) and Mayom (22) in Unity State; Ayod reported 13 circumstances and three deaths, and Yirol East (Lakes State) reported 11 circumstances.
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE AND CHALLENGES
- Following an authorization by the Government for humanitarian companions to fly to Akobo on 2 February to ship life-saving provides. UNICEF contributed to the joint mission and delivered 2.5 metric tons of life-saving provides together with assorted medical gadgets, anti-malarial medication, an Interagency Emergency Health Kit, Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), ReSoMal, and F-100 therapeutic milk, adopted by a second restricted window on 5 February for extra therapeutic commodities. These deliveries characterize a important lifeline for conflict-affected communities, significantly acutely malnourished youngsters, and underscore the pressing want for sustained, secure, and unhindered humanitarian entry.
- In addition, UNICEF and companions have scaled up cholera response in affected counties via assist to case administration, an infection prevention and management measures, hygiene promotion, and water therapy interventions. UNICEF deliberate to move doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) to Duk County as a part of the continued response within the coming days. In Bor South County, UNICEF supported vitamin centres are treating, screening and offering ready-to-use therapeutic meals to youngsters displaced by battle.
- As of 13 February, MSF has established a 30-bed Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) in Poktap in Duk County to reinforce cholera case administration capability. WHO facilitated the state cholera taskforce assembly, the place companions reviewed response updates, recognized operational gaps and challenges, and agreed on coordinated actions to reply. In addition, WHO deliberate to deploy Rapid Response Team to Ayod County from 18 to 25 February to conduct speedy epidemiological investigation and to reply to the continued cholera outbreak.
- On 12 February, ICRC reported that amongst different life-saving actions, they’ve deployed a brief surgical staff to Panyijiar County in Unity State, to ship emergency surgical care to critically wounded sufferers from Jonglei State. ICRC additionally continues to remotely assist Akobo hospital with provision of life-saving surgical care to the wounded. Additionally, ICRC have delivered important drugs and medical provides to Akobo hospital, the place wounded folks have arrived in giant numbers in current weeks. Since the escalation of the battle in Jonglei State in late December 2025, ICRC has carried out greater than 600 surgical procedures on sufferers with weapon wounds arriving in Juba Military hospital in Central Equatoria State and Panyijiar Hospital in Unity State, whereas facilitating the switch of some 110 wounded sufferers from distant areas.
- An inter-agency speedy evaluation mission to evaluate scenario of individuals impacted by battle in Duk Padiet, Duk Canal and Poktap, Duk County is ongoing. The mission that commenced on 12 February with Padiet and Canal space assessed and accomplished. Today, 13 February, the staff will do an evaluation in Poktap and proceed to Twic East County for the same evaluation.
- Humanitarian companions stay involved about worsening entry constraints in Jonglei State, the place escalating hostilities and huge‑scale displacement are more and more hindering efforts to achieve folks in want.
- Since the onset of the battle, a complete of 12 well being services have been looted and/or had infrastructure destroyed (4 in Uror, 4 in Nyirol, three in Ayod, and one in Duk), additional disrupting the supply of important well being providers and limiting entry to look after affected populations. The affected services embrace Riang Primary Health Care Centre, Yuai Primary Health Care Centre, Waat Primary Health Care Centre, Pajut Primary Health Care Centre, Jiech/Wau Primary Health Care Centre, Ayod Primary Health Care Centre, Pading Primary Health Care Unit, Pulturuk Primary Health Care Centre, Pieri Primary Health Care Unit, Motot Primary Health Care Unit, and Walgak Primary Health Care Unit. The destruction and closure of well being and vitamin services are immediately limiting girls’s and youngsters’s entry to important care. Service interruptions in Akobo, Uror, Lankien, Duk, and Ayod cut back choices for secure supply and reproductive well being and delay therapy for acutely malnourished and sick youngsters, growing the chance of morbidity and mortality among the many most susceptible.
- In Duk, Ayod, Uror, Akobo, and Nyirol counties, a complete of 16 humanitarian automobiles/property have been commandeered by the SPLA-iO group. These embrace 14 mild automobiles, 1 tractor, and 1 quad bike. The affected organizations embrace Save the Children, Oxfam, NRC, MSF, Tearfund, and CRS. Engagement is ongoing for the unconditional launch of automobiles.