Mangateen IDPS camp. | Photo: Makuei Chien

A lawmaker in the national parliament is appealing to the government and humanitarian organizations to deliver food and non-food items to internally displaced persons at the Mangateen camp in Juba.

Consecutive heavy downpours this week have battered the camp northwest of Juba, leaving hundreds of IDPs in dire situations.

On Friday, the camp chairperson Makuei Chieng Jok said many houses were submerged and displaced persons – mostly women and children have been left without shelter.

Reacting to the situation, Stephen Bol, an MP representing Mayom County says the IDPs last received plastic sheets in 2019.

He said the plastic roofing of the makeshift shelters has worn out due to the sun – leaving the displaced vulnerable to extreme weather conditions.

“In this rainy season the IDPs are facing a lot of challenges and one of them is the issue of shelters,” he told Eye Radio on Friday.

“Since the time they were taken to that place, they were provided with plastic sheets that they use as shelter and they have been destroyed by sunshine. In that (Friday) rain, the IDPs were actually suffering because they do not have good shelters.”

“I want to appeal to the International Organizations who are working in the field of humanitarian assistance to at least assist these IDPs in Mangaten”.

The Mangateen camp was established in 2015 and hosts around 14 thousand internally displaced people who found refuge after the ongoing conflicts in the country.