The Yida refugee camp in the recently formed nation of South Sudan - home to 20,000 people - was hit by a bomb on Thursday, witnesses said.Many feel the government of Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, is to blame.South Sudan split from Sudan in July following decades of war ...
Paulo Amotun Lokoro, another South Sudanese refugee athlete who has lived in the Kakuma refugee camp since 2006, says he is fully prepared for the men's 1500-meter race at the Rio Olympics. The 24-year-old high school student has managed to hone his football and athletic skills despite ...
he did not have the funding to actualize his dream of lighting up his refugee camp, which is home to about 288,000 refugees from nine countries including South Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi and DRC.
Kakuma refugee camp, in northwestern Kenya, is the largest refugee camp in the world. Established in 1992, the camp is jointly managed by the Kenyan Department of Refugee Affairs and UNHCR. Today, Kakuma is home to some 100,000 South Sudanese and 55,000 Somali refugees, most of whom were...
South Sudanese runner Perina Lokure Nakang first ran for sport along the road near her refugee camp in Kenya.
PARIS –The first time Perina Lokure Nakang began to run for sport, she ran 9 miles (14 kilometers) along the road near her refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Now, the 21-year-old South Sudanese runner is competing in the Paris Olympics, among many ...
There are thousands of people at one camp in South Sudan. They fled there to escape the military conflict in the area. Camp officials say there has been a big increase in hepatitis E: a viral disease spread through bad food and water. ...
With its diverse political, social and economic structures, the camp has according to Jansen become an "accidental city" (Jansen, 2018). Kakuma lies very marginalised in the north-western corner of Kenya, approx. 130 km to the border of South Sudan in an area with extreme climatic conditions...
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The sprawling Kakuma refugee camp that was established in 1992 is home to over 186,000 refugees from 19 different nationalities while majority are from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Young people aged 12-25 years old who comprise 36 percent of the population inside Kenya...