Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said renewed fighting in Al Wehda state, South Sudan, between governmental troops and rebels, led to the organization's staff departure, forcing them to close the only hospital in the area. U.N. Envoy humanitarian coordinator to South Sudan Toby Lanzer asked the two warring sides to allow aid organizations to enter the area, where 100 thousand IDPs were displaced from El Wehda state last week. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also decided to pull its staff, Associated Press reported. The armed conflict started in 2013 between loyalists of VP Riek Machar and troops loyal to President Salva Kiir who accused Riek of carrying out a military coup. The conflict left tens of thousands killed and two million IDPs, a U.S. report read. In 2014 governmental allied troops stormed the town of Leer leaving a trail of dead civilians and forcing humanitarian organizations to withdraw staff.
