Aswa was an
Internally displaced persons camp during the
Second Sudanese Civil War near
Nimule on the South Sudan-Uganda border.
Location
Aswa lies in
Magwi County,
Eastern Equatoria about 18 km north of Nimule on the eastern banks of the
Aswa River
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, roughly six Kilometers East from that river's confluence with the
White Nile
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.
Demographics
Together with nearby Ame and Atepi, Aswa belonged to the group of camps widely known as "Triple-A". Aswa was the last of the camps in the region to remain open so it received an estimated 10,000 people who fled government air and ground assaults on the other camps. The SSRA finally evacuated Aswa's population of roughly 37,000 eastwards to Mongali in early February 1994.
References
Populated places in Eastern Equatoria
Magwi County
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