JUBA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 1.4 million South Sudanese refugees have returned home between the signing of a revitalized peace agreement in October 2018 and May 31, 2024, the UN refugee agency said. There are 2.2 million South Sudanese refugees in the region, including in Kenya, U...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The UN humanitarian chief released an emergency 10 million U.S. dollars on Monday to aid about 500,000 people in South Sudan fleeing the Sudan war. UN Undersecretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths allocated the fund from the UN ...
More than 1.4 million South Sudanese refugees have returned home between the signing of a revitalized peace agreement in October 2018 and May 31, 2024, the UN refugee agency said. #XinhuaNews
As fighting between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces escalated last month, thousands of South Sudanese refugees found themselves forced to return to their conflict-stricken homeland.
JUBA, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The UN humanitarian agency said Friday about 8,350 refugees from Sudan have fled into South Sudan since January due to five-year war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest...
According to the UNHCR, since the start of the conflict in South Sudan over 10 years ago, growing humanitarian needs compounded by dire food shortages, continued insecurity, and the impacts of climate change, have kept South Sudanese refugees in exile and prompted new displacement. ...
There are more than 2.2 million refugees from South Sudan hosted in the Eastern Africa region, and another 1.7 million displaced in the country, according to the UNHCR.■
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- UN humanitarians said on Tuesday they are extremely concerned about the tens of thousands of refugees and returnees fleeing the Sudan conflict into South Sudan. "More than 50,000 people have crossed over from Sudan in the past three weeks, with thousands ...
KHARTOUM, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Wednesday said the number of South Sudanese refugees living in Sudan has now reached 800,000. Noriko Yoshida, representative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sudan, told a forum on the refugees issue that othe...
Refugees from South Sudan rest at a refugee camp in Sudan's White Nile state near the border with South Sudan on May 17, 2017. (Xinhua/Mohamed Babiker) KHARTOUM, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) in Sudan's White Nile State said on Thursday that the number of...