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Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
March 31, 2018
In this Feb. 20, 2018, photo, a Sudanese refugee boy stands on top of a broken-down tractor in Yida, South Sudan. While millions of South Sudanese flee their country in what the United Nations has called the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 31, 2018
Over 4,500 South Sudanese refugees arrived in Sudan in February, increasing the number of new arrivals in 2018 to over 10,300 refugees, which is significantly less than the number who arrived at this time by this time in 2017. The total number of South Sudanese refugees arrived in Sudan since mid-2013Ãâà...
ABC News
March 30, 2018
In this Feb. 20, 2018, photo, a Sudanese refugee boy stands on top of a broken-down tractor in Yida, South Sudan. While millions of South Sudanese flee their country in what the United Nations has called the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
This would bring the estimated South Sudanese refugee population to 3.1 million—an increase of 18 per cent—by the end of December 2018. This population is urgently in need of protection, shelter and medical care. In South Sudan itself, some two million IDPs and 307,000 non-South Sudanese refugeesÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
March 16, 2018
Disturbing video clips shared on social media by their desperate families have revealed the ordeal of Sudanese migrants kidnapped and tortured for ... Rights group Amnesty International last month accused European governments of being complicit in the torture and abuse of migrants and refugees inÃâà...
Fast Company
March 16, 2018
Yumbe, Uganda, on the border of South Sudan, for instance, looks almost entirely empty on a map, but it's where many refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan have settled. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team is equipping individual volunteers to form “working groups” that use mobile technology to collectÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 14, 2018
In 2018, an estimated 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers are living in Sudan and in need of humanitarian assistance. This includes over 455,000 South Sudanese refugees who had arrived in Sudan, as of 15 October, since the start of the conflict in South Sudan in December 2013, and an estimatedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 14, 2018
South Sudan's civil war, which began in 2013 between the government and armed opposition groups, has reportedly claimed the lives of up to 300,000 people and displaced about four million others – one-third of the country's population. Some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who escaped fierceÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 12, 2018
Nor do they face the dangers that the African refugees face. Aliza Olmert, the wife of the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and a refugee activist, told me that, in 2012, Israel expelled a thousand Sudanese asylum seekers to South Sudan, including four hundred children. Many died, and the country has since deterioratedÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 12, 2018
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with South Sudan President Salva Kiir in the capital, Juba, to encourage an end to the country's civil war and to ... During South Sudan's earlier war for independence from Sudan, Egypt accepted South Sudanese refugees and gave them access to education.
Forward
March 6, 2018
According to a UNHCR press release in November 2017, out of 27,500 Eritreans and 7,800 Sudanese, Israel granted refugee status to only eight Eritreans and two ... Many of the refugees who came to Israel didn't set off from Eritrea or Sudan to get to the Jewish state, they were fleeing brutalities at home.
Daily Sabah
March 5, 2018
The UNHCR, the U.N.'s top refugees body, said in a report released Monday that "6.2 percent or 3,391 out of the total of 54,172 refugee children under 5 ... year on record," U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Alain Noudehou told a press conference in the South Sudanese capital Juba, according to Reuters.
Sudan Tribune
March 5, 2018
March 4, 2018 (JUBA) – More than 24,000 of refugee children under five years in South Sudan suffer from growth retardation, a nutrition survey done by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) shows. JPEG - 97.6 kb; South Sudanese refugees carrying Core Relief Items walk down a road in BidibidiÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 5, 2018
March 4, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The government of the White Nile State said arrangements are underway to receive the new influx of the South Sudanese refugees. The Secretary-General of the White Nile State government and chairman of the technical coordination committee for refugee affairs, Al-TayebÃâà...
Catholic News Agency
February 24, 2018
... to research South Sudan, and came across multiple articles detailing the horrors of the country's ongoing conflict and the millions who, having fled war and famine in their homeland, are now living as refugees in neighboring countries. Uganda in particular has been one of the main refugee destinations.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 20, 2018
Sudanese refugee Al Ghali Yahia has been waiting five years for his wife to join him in Rochester. Al Ghali Yahia: 'I don't know why it ... Unable to earn the money in Sudan, Al Ghali went to Egypt, then Syria, then Lebanon, cleaning houses and working in a factory. As soon as he got the money together,Ãâà...
Reliefweb
February 19, 2018
2018 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) finalized – The multi-sectoral Sudan Country Plan of the RRRP includes 30 NGO, INGO and UN partners appealing for a total of $327.2 M to support an estimated 677,000 South Sudanese refugees in Sudan in 2018. This includes anÃâà...
News24
February 15, 2018
Khartoum) - About another 200 000 South Sudanese refugees are expected to arrive in Sudan this year, fleeing fighting and food insecurity in their country, the United Nations said on Thursday. South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, descended into civil war just two years after it split from the north inÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 14, 2018
Kenya is the third country after Uganda and Ethiopia hosting the largest number of South Sudanese refugees. These refugees walk for long distances without food to reach the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana. A visit to the camp revealed a depressing state of affairs for women and children.
UNHCR
February 14, 2018
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, supports economic activity by more than 30,000 South Sudanese refugees in Meri to help them become self-reliant. Cash grants by the World Food Programme, distributed with the support of UNHCR, help money to circulate, and the allocation of agricultural land by theÃâà...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
“We learn how to build our self-confidence, how to protect ourselves and how to respect others,” says Siham, 18, a Sudanese refugee and one of the ... As a young girl, Siham was caught up in the ravaging conflict in Sudan's Blue Nile State, constantly plagued by the sounds of bombs and gun shots. At onlyÃâà...
Vogue.com
December 31, 1999
For Okeny and Mayen, both of whom are among the millions of refugees displaced by Sudan's violent civil wars missing out on key bookings due to green card troubles or feeling they have to conceal their careers from the most important people in their lives have been issues. For Nyasiase, a citizen ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
REVISED POPULATION FIGURES IN EAST DARFUR – The overall refugee population figure for East Darfur has been revised downwards to 98,758 refugees, following the completion of individual (biometric) registration for 796 refugees living in Yassin locality, as well as the deduction of 1,070 individualsÃâà...
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