Once the bread basket of South Sudan, the lush and fertile land surrounding Yeh, supported a thriving trading centre and attractive crowds of weekend visitors from the capital. It was an ethnically diverse community and home to 300,000 people living largely in harmony. That changed in 2016 when violence erupted between the government and opposition forces as they fought for control over the strategic outpost on the main trading route with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Most of the population fled, leaving Yeh largely a ghost town, which it remains today amidst ongoing violence, human rights abuses and extreme poverty. Once abundantly available in this farming community, food is now scarce because people are afraid to travel outside the town to harvest their crops or to buy food from markets. The hunger in Yeh is forcing women to go outside the town and it is really impossible for us as women to go outside. But because of our children, we really want to rescue them from dying, we go outside and you know, we endanger our lives. Once you go outside the town five miles or three miles, you are abducted. On a visit to Yeh, the head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, met with political, religious and community leaders to hear their concerns about the ongoing insecurity. He announced that the mission is exploring the establishment of a new peacekeeping base in Yeh to better protect civilians and build durable peace. Everything that you would want is here and yet it's been destroyed by war and 70% of its population is no longer here, they're in refugee camps or displaced. That's a real tragedy. So whatever we can do to try and support bringing Yeh back to what it was, we will try and do. But it requires us to be able to have the access into the surrounding countryside and also to be able to talk to the people we need to talk to. That means the opposition is well as the government supported sides as well. A number of conditions would need to be met before the base is established, guaranteed access for peacekeepers to outlying areas, the cooperation of local authorities including security services, and the existence of a genuinely inclusive grassroots peace process. Indeed, if you have more peacekeepers here, we really will have that peace and then we will have that opportunity of moving outside or to go to see our people in the villages to go to the remote areas because you end up there to keep people's life. While a local peace agreement was signed last month, many say that unless the killings, abduction, rape and violent robbery stop, there is little hope of enduring peace or the recovery of their much loved, once vibrant and prosperous Yeh.