April 28 (Jonglei Times)-to Aburoc are undertaking long and treacherous journeys — some travelling eight days by foot without access to water and food," it said.
MSF's Bachmann said water trucks could not reach Aburoc, and it suspended its hospital operations there on Thursday morning.People are sleeping in the open without mosquito nets to protect against malaria and he said there have been reports of cholera in the area in recent months.
Government forces are in control of nearby Kodok town after fighting ended there on Wednesday, Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) deputy spokesman Colonel Santo Domic Chol said.
"The SPLA is calling on their citizens to come back to their houses," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation via phone, declining to give casualty figures.
"War is war and war is ugly in any capacity... there must be refugees and there must be those caught in the crossfire."
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