Murray recently got back from his 2 week Uganda Mission where he headed up the team as Emergency Coordinator for the South Sudanese refugee response. The long term coordinator is now in country, which is why we have Murray back on Kenyan soil for 1 week before his next trip. 55,000 South Sudanese have crossed the border into Northern Uganda seeking refuge from the conflict between government and opposition forces that started mid December 2013. People were flooding in at 2,000-3,000 a day and overwhelmed the humanitarian community and local population. (Refugees were also crossing the border into Ethiopia, Kenya and North Sudan). When I talked briefly to Murray on the phone in his first week he was very down, the water shortage was bad and people barely had enough water to drink, let alone cook
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