Hepatitis E toll rises to more than 100 in South Sudan refugee camps

YIDA, South Sudan, April 17 (UNHCR) – During the past three weeks, Hassam Neel Salom has been among a small, but growing number of refugees who have moved from a crowded and insecure settlement near a contested section of the border between South Sudan and Sudan to a new camp.

9 May 2013 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and South Sudan today announced they will carry out a vaccination campaign to address a meningitis outbreak in the Upper Nile state that has killed three people.

20 June 2013 – Aid agencies in South Sudan will need $485 million until the end of this year to help 3 million people to survive and to rebuild their lives, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. “While the needs of many vulnerable communities in ...

14 June 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest terms the shelling on a United Nations logistics base in Sudan’s South Kordofan State which killed at least one UN peacekeeper and wounded two others. “I urge the Government of Sudan and the SPLM-North [Sudan People’s Lib...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 6 May 2014, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In Ethiopia, UNHCR is seeing a sharp increase in refugees fleeing South Sudan's conflict, after government f...

Marking four years since the outbreak of South Sudan’s civil war, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today appealed for urgent action by all sides to settle the conflict and put an end to the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis and Africa’s largest refugee crisis. “The world can...

“These attacks on vulnerable civilians are absolutely abhorrent and must stop,” said the head of UNMISS David Shearer.

Mr. Arnauld Akodjenou, the Regional Refugee Coordinator for South Sudan Situation and Special Advisor to the High Commissioner was in Ottawa to press the Trudeau government for more Canadian involvement in South Sudan’s five-year civil war, which has killed 400,000 and forced 2.2 million people to f...