Guit County is an administrative area of Unity State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan . It has been impacted by the South Sudanese Civil War .
5-750: Duar is a large village in the Guit County of Unity State , in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan . It is on the main oil road leading south from Bentiu , and is close to the Thar Jath Central Processing Facility in the Block 5A oil concession. The village is in a Jikany Nuer region. A clinic operated by Médecins Sans Frontières was established in the village in 1989 by Dr. Jill Seaman to treat patients with visceral leishmaniasis . The disease
10-582: A difficult task due to poor road quality and north–south political tensions. The 2,500 square metres (27,000 sq ft) facility is self-contained, with a 3 megawatt power plant. Guit County As of August 2015, outsiders had little if any access to Guit County, due to the fighting that began in Dec. 2013. A large number of people were displaced during fighting in early 2015. "According to SSRRA officials, besides 2540 vulnerable host population in Nimni,
15-713: The payam is paying host to about 14,000 IDPs, most of them women and children. Nimni and the four adjacent payams are also hosting an aggregate of approximately 70,000 IDPs." IRNA reported that Guit County had also suffered damage from flooding in August 2014. As of April 2015, both animals and people were suffering a high morbidity rate due to difficult conditions. "People are surviving on wild foods including water lilies, lalob fruit, and very limited fish. Large scale animal morbidity and mortality has meant diminishing milk production and unfavorable terms of trade for herders." Notable people from Guit County include Taban Deng Gai ,
20-643: The animals for food. About 25% of the population fled, some to islands in the Nile where they felt they would be safe. After the civil war, a divisional headquarters for the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army was constructed by Arkel International in Duar. The site was in a swamp near to the Nile, and had to be raised above flood level. 3,000 truck loads of fill material were brought in from two quarries about 150 kilometres (93 mi) distant,
25-404: Was spreading quickly, in part due to civil war, which was causing population movement, reducing resistance through malnutrition and hindering provision of control and treatment. On 27 June 1998 Duar was attacked by Paulino Matiep 's SSUM militia. The Medecins Sans Frontieres compound was burned and destroyed, as were the school and the community offices. Paulino's forces raided cattle camps, killing
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