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.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard expressed shock at the number of South Sudanese refugees flowing into Ethiopia and said she had to persuade the U.S. public to increase their assistance.

UN envoy Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of the ruler of Dubai, said she was "unprepared" for the suffering she found when visiting refugees in western Ethiopia, which now hosts 170,000 South Sudanese who have fled fighting in their homeland since December.

MSF France has been providing medical aid to South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia since January. Teams treat refugees when they arrive at transit centers and at Leitchuor camp.

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...

Three years since achieving independence, the people of South Sudan do not have much to celebrate. The ongoing fighting in Africa's newest country is causing thousands of mainly Nuer people to flee into neighbouring Ethiopia. The UNHCR says they have received well over 150,000 refugees since m...

South Sudan refugees in Ethiopia

"I'm longing for my mother and father, if they were here I'd be in school studying" Thousands in war-torn South Sudan have lost their homes and livelihoods. When seventeen year old Adut lost her parents, she also lost her childhood by taking on the role of mom and dad for her young siblings. B...

"If they shoot me & you see I have died you must run, don't cry around me" Grandma Abuk told her grandchildren as they ran for their lives. Years of violence and bloodshed in South Sudan robbed Abuk of her seven children, she is now the sole parent to her grandchildren. When

News Stories, 18 November 2014 MATAR WAY STATION, Ethiopia, November 18 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has begun relocating nearly 15,000 South Sudanese refugees who had been stranded for a few months at a way station in western Ethiopia after the refugee camp where they were due to live was flo...