The UN Refugee Agency organized yesterday a one-day field trip to Ajuong Thok refugee camp, Unity State, for the US Ambassador to South Sudan, Molly Phee. This came as a response to the Ambassador’s request to gain first-hand information about the situation of Sudanese refugees fleeing South Kordofa...

By pointblanknews.com Dozens were feared killed Friday night when an improvised bomb exploded in Gombe, capital of Gombe State. Details were still sketchy, but a security source said the device exploded as local vigilantes questioned a man whose movement in Ungwa Arawa, a suburb of the capital...

More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it. Over 1,200 acres of farmland were allegedly confiscated about 10 years ago from 109 residents in So...

At least eight people have been killed after female suicide bombers attacked two camps hosting internally displaced people (IDP) in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, a civilian self-defence group said. It was the first major attack on a displaced persons camp in the city which is the birthplace of...

Refugees from South Sudan continue to arrive in the remote Ethiopian Gambella region at a rate of up to 1,000 people per day, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The agency says many of the refugees are from the Upper Nile where fighting broke out in December last year between forces loya...