South Sudan — Site profile: Bentiu PoC (10 to 17 October 2015)
Contact
DTM South Sudan, SouthSudanDTM@iom.int
Language
English
Location
South Sudan
Period Covered
Oct 10 2015
Oct 17 2015
Activity
- Registration
- Flow Monitoring
- Mobility Tracking
- Site Assessment
Summary
A sharp rise was recorded in the weekly influx rate of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the UN Mission in South Sudan’s protection of civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu, the capital of Unity State. A total of 1,226 individuals arrived at the PoC between 10 to 17 October 2015, an almost threefold increase from the 508 new IDPs that had come in the week before, taking the overall population of the PoC to 120,004 individuals or 31,742 HHs.