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Health crisis in South Sudan
news UNHCR, 25 Aug 2012 (12 years ago )There are roughly 105,000 refugees in South Sudan's Maban County. Many are at serious health risk. UNHCR and its partners are working vigorously to prevent and contain the outbreak of malaria and several water-borne diseases. -
South Sudan: UNHCR Providing Health Care
news UNHCR, 05 Sep 2012 (12 years ago )Mobile clinics and hundred of community workers are mobilized by UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency) to bring health care to the refugees in Yusuf Batil Refugee Camp. -
UNHCR tackles Hepatitis E outbreak that kills 16 Sudanese refugees
news UNHCR, 14 Sep 2012 (12 years ago )JUBA, South Sudan, September 14 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency is working with the government, the World Health Organization and other partners to control an outbreak of Hepatitis E that has killed 16 refugees in three camps in South Sudan. -
Hundreds flee fresh air and ground attacks and cross to South Sudan
news UNHCR, 25 Sep 2012 (12 years ago )JUBA, South Sudan, September 25 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that fresh air and ground attacks in Sudan's South Kordofan state are causing a renewed population influx to South Sudan. -
Renewed fighting drives hundreds of Sudanese refugees across border
news UNHCR, 25 Sep 2012 (12 years ago )Air and ground attacks in Sudan's Southern Kordofan state are causing a renewed influx to South Sudan of about 100 refugees a day. Arriving in the border town of Yida, in Unity State, refugees are in poor health and without any belongings. -
Responding to a humanitarian crisis and saving lives: UNHCR in South Sudan
news UNHCR, 25 Sep 2012 (12 years ago )YUSUF BATIL, South Sudan, September 25 (UNHCR) – Muktar thought of war as something far away – too distant to do harm. But, last spring, the violence came to Tampona village in Sudan's Blue Nile state. The first to die was <a href="http://www.erdinckoc.com.tr" title="seo">seo</a>Muktar's neighbour, ... -
Stretched UNHCR faces difficulties containing hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan
news UNHCR, 09 Nov 2012 (11 years ago )JUBA, South Sudan, November 9 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday warned that its capacity to contain an outbreak of hepatitis E among the refugee population in South Sudan was increasingly stretched at a time when funding for its emergency operation was depleted. "The risks will grow if, as c... -
UNHCR prepares for refugee influx into South Sudan's Upper Nile state
news UNHCR, 08 Nov 2012 (11 years ago )MABAN COUNTY, South Sudan, November 8 (UNHCR) – Aneim has just reached South Sudan's newest refugee camp, Gendrassa, after fleeing a devastating mid-October air attack on his village across the border in Sudan's Blue Nile state.<a href="http://www.erdinckoc.com.tr" title="seo">seo</a> -
New refugee arrivals at South Sudan's Yida settlement
news UNHCR, 22 Nov 2012 (11 years ago )South Sudan's largest refugee settlement – Yida, in Unity State – is seeing a sharp rise in new refugee arrivals. Over the past week there have been 2,100 new arrivals, 826 of them on Wednesday and 527 on Thursday. The refugees say the reason for their flight is intensified fighting in their home re... -
UNHCR chief visits South Sudan to spotlight “forgotten refugee crisis”
news UNHCR, 26 Nov 2012 (11 years ago )YIDA, South Sudan, November 23 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Friday wrapped up a three-day visit to South Sudan aimed at bringing attention and support for tens of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Sudan. Guterres, who met refugees at the Yida settlement close...