The Japanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, H.E. Mr. Kazuhiro Suzuki, visited refugee camps in Gambela yesterday (Thursday 17 July) to see how the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing critically-needed food assistance to South Sudanese refugees, thanks to Japan’s contribution of US$4.2 mi...

Over 200 thousand South Sudanese refugees are seeking shelter in Ethiopia,and many more are streaming in. Reports indicate that the huge influx is straining Ethiopia's capacity. CCTV's Girum Chala reports from Pagak, Gambella, Ethiopia.

South Sudan is the most rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the world today, according to a senior United Nations relief operations official who made an urgent appeal for desperately-needed funding for Ethiopia, which hosts 180,000 mostly women and children South Sudanese refugees.

The boys skipping under the limp yellow string and ragged red flag that officially separates rebel-held South Sudan and Ethiopia escaped massacres, starvation and disease to seek shelter and safety across the border after a weeks-long walk that claimed many lives. Despite food rations and fears o...

Gambella, Ethiopia, January 14 - Two dozen South Sudanese refugees were on the run again over the weekend, but not for their lives this time. They were taking part in a five-kilometer fun run in western Ethiopia’s Gambella region to mark the completion of the United Nations Millennium Development Go...

GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, 11 May 2015 (UNHCR): The Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have launched the relocation of thousands of South Sudanese refugees from flood-prone areas in the Gambella region to a new refugee camp l...

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 2 June 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Heavy fighting in South Sudan's Unity and Upper Nile states over the last two months has displaced more than ...

GENEVA, 15 April 2014 (UNHCR) - UNHCR announced on Tuesday it had begun airlifts and construction of new camps to help South Sudanese refugees fleeing to Ethiopia, who now total more than 95,000 and are growing at up to 1,000 a day. The UN refugee agency told reporters it was working with its par...

GENEVA (AFP) -- South Sudanese refugees have poured into neighbouring Ethiopia over the past three days to flee fighting in their homeland, the United Nations said Tuesday. Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for refugees, said that over 11,000 people had crossed into Ethiopia ...

Geneva - South Sudanese refugees have poured into neighbouring Ethiopia over the past three days to flee fighting in their homeland, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for refugees, said that over 11 000 people had crossed into Ethiopia in t...