From Mid-December 2013, the country is engulfed in an internal armed conflict following an alleged “coup” attempt by anti-government forces, which has left thousands of people dead and more than 800, 000 others displaced from their homes. This has exacerbated the already precarious humanitarian sit...

Australian Associated Press - 12 April 2014 - She said Australian money would provide life-saving assistance, with $5 million for food and logistics through the UN World Food Program. The remaining $2.8 million will go to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for shelter, healthcare, food, water a...

DORO REFUGEE CAMP, South Sudan, May 20 (UNHCR) – Driven by hunger, hundreds of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan's Maban County have returned to Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile state in a desperate search for food. "The present food crisis is a product of the insecurity that has been hampering humanita...

GENEVA – Driven by fresh fighting, horrendous acts of violence and facing drought and famine, thousands of people are fleeing South Sudan, making it the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Total displacement from South Sudan into the surrounding region has now reached 1.6 million people, an a...

From food to furniture, clothing to haircuts, the bustling market in the settlement of Meri in the rural northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a colourful example of refugees’ resourcefulness and how they can contribute to the local economy.

Since the signature of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) on 11 September 2018, 2 the permanent ceasefire is being upheld in most parts of the country and there is a marked reduction in violence. 3 Nevertheless, conflict remains ...

Friday 11 February 2022 – On Friday 11 February the Governor of Eastern Equatoria State, Honorable Gen. Louis Lobong Lojore, and UNHCR Representative in South Sudan, Arafat Jamal, officially inaugurated the UNHCR Torit Field Office joined by Ambassador Mohammed Affey, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Hor...