{"id":44491,"date":"2026-05-08T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=44491"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:17:03","slug":"community-leaders-and-police-discuss-security-challenges-in-bentiu-idp-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/community-leaders-and-police-discuss-security-challenges-in-bentiu-idp-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Community leaders and police discuss security challenges in Bentiu IDP camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Yien Gattuor Mead<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Community leaders in the Bentiu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp have held a high-level meeting with police authorities to address escalating security concerns within the site.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting follows a violent incident last week in which a gang killed one man and left several others injured. Nyieer Gatchang Puok, Chairman of the Bentiu IDP camp, pledged to strengthen the partnership between camp leadership and law enforcement to curb crime.<\/p>\n<p>He urged residents to remain vigilant and proactive in reporting suspicious activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I called for different departments, starting from the Joint Police Unit (JPU), community leaders, and community watch groups, to sit with my team. Our aim is to discuss security issues in the POC, specifically drug abuse, gender-based violence, and other community challenges affecting our people,&#8221; Puok said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bentiu IDP camp, formerly known as a Protection of Civilians (POC) site, was established following the outbreak of civil war in late 2013. As of July 2025, the camp hosts 109,365 individuals; residents face a &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; of challenges that hinder their ability to return home<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing insecurity and the destruction of homes and livelihoods in their places of origin, coupled with perennial flooding over the last three years, have submerged large swaths of Unity State, rendering many areas uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, humanitarian assistance was scaled down across Unity State, deepening vulnerabilities and slowing the progress toward durable solutions for the displaced population.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these hardships, camp leadership and the JPU are working to stabilise the internal security situation to protect the thousands of families who still call the camp home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yien Gattuor Mead Community leaders in the Bentiu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp have held a high-level meeting with police authorities to address escalating security concerns within the site. The meeting follows a violent incident last week in which a gang killed one man and left several others injured.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/community-leaders-and-police-discuss-security-challenges-in-bentiu-idp-camp\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bentiu-IDPs-Camp-courtesy-photo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44492,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44491\/revisions\/44492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}