UN peacekeeping forces aiming to reach more vulnerable people in remote parts of South Sudan
Channel: UNMISS VIDEOS
Date: 2017-11-03

One hundred and fifty women draped in white gowns sing messages of peace in the town of Akobo, in a remote and hard-to-reach area in the north-east of the South Sudan close to the border with Ethiopia.

They wave placards calling for peace and the end of the almost 4-year old conflict in South Sudan which has driven four million people, a third of the population, from their homes.

Some 71,000 displaced people are currently living in Akobo and the surrounding area after fleeing fighting between government SPLA and opposition forces to the north-east. There are concerns that the town could, in the future, become a strategic battleground for control of the region.