[1] On 10 July 2014 a group of soldiers who had deserted laid siege to the compound of the African Kongdai construction company between Aroyo and Awoda.

[4] The soldiers looted food and other household items from the compound and from villages around Aroyo and Awoda, loading what they had taken into a stolen vehicle.

The displaced people, numbering 270 households, made temporary settlements in land provided by the local government in Aroyo centre.

[5] Concerns included malaria and diarrhoea, lack of staff, food and plastic sheets to cover the temporary grass shelters, and poor latrines.

The 2015 presidential decree that had divided up the states and counties in South Sudan had left many of the local governments without budgets and equipment.