The UN mission in the Country has denied media reports that the mission has declined to protect new displaced people coming to the sites in Malakal.

The mission says it only wants to change its approach to the crisis situation in the country by taking protection to the people, before they come to the camps.

The mission was responding to reports that Sectors 1-4 in the camp in Malakal are overcrowded, which led the mission to construct another site called the Sector 5.

An aid worker was reported saying the mission has failed to commit displaced people in the Sector 5 site, due to the increasing number and instability in the area.

However, the UNMISS Spokesperson; Arianne Quentier told a media briefing that the mission intends to redeploy the UNMISS forces in the PoC site to other affected areas.

“For the time being, we are looking at keeping Malakal as it is right now. And rather than expanding the Malakal Protection of Civilians Sites, we are looking at projecting troops outside of our Protection of Civilians Sites,” she said.

She says there are over 2 million people who have been displaced, and out of them, 200, 000 are in the Protection of Civilian’s Sites, leaving 1.8 million people in need of assistance.

“And they are in need of being reached out to, and that’s what we are trying to do with our troops, rather than fixing an increasing number of population in an area which has never been meant to be permanent, or semi-permanent, but very clearly because of the conditions-temporary.”

The United Nation’s Protection of Civilians Site in Malakal currently hosts around 40, 400 civilians.