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  • UNHCR puts priority on health for refugees flooding into South Sudan

    news UNHCR, 10 Jul 2012 (11 years ago )
    UBA, South Sudan, July 10 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Tuesday the health situation in South Sudan's refugee camps had become the agency's main priority as conditions continued to worsen under the strain of continuing large refugee inflows and flooding from torrential rains.
  • UNHCR relocates 4,000 Sudanese refugees; more convoys planned

    news UNHCR, 31 Jul 2012 (11 years ago )
    JUBA, South Sudan, July 24 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has moved some 4,000 Sudanese from the waterlogged and overcrowded Jammam refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile state to a site some 50 kilometres away that is already nearing its maximum capacity.
  • Aid agencies work to stabilize health situation in South Sudan camps

    news UNHCR, 07 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    JUBA, South Sudan, August 3 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has raised the alarm over health conditions among refugees in two South Sudan camps, but stressed that mortality and morbidity rates have stabilized, even dropped with urgent interventions.
  • South Sudan: Jamam relocation

    news UNHCR, 17 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    To escape the seasonal rains UNHCR moves thousands of Sudanese refugees to higher ground.
  • South Sudan: Helping the Most Vulnerable

    news UNHCR, 23 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    UNHCR comes to the assistance of older, disabled and sickly Sudanese refugees arriving in Yusif Batil Camp.
  • UNHCR describes alarming health and nutrition situation in South Sudan camps

    news UNHCR, 25 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    GENEVA, August 24 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Friday it is concerned by the alarming health and nutrition situation for some 170,000 refugees in South Sudan, particularly among children under the age of five and in the two camps of Yida and Yusul Batil.<a href="http://www.erdinckoc.com.t...
  • Health crisis in South Sudan

    news UNHCR, 25 Aug 2012 (11 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 (11 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 (11 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 (11 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.