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  • Dozens of children held captive after abduction from Lasu refugee camp

    news Radio Tamazuj, 12 Nov 2016 (7 years ago )
    The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says it is saddened by the recent killing of two ethnic Nuba refugees in the Yei area of South Sudan and is concerned about the wellbeing of more than two dozen abducted children who are still missing. In a press release on Friday, UNHCR pointed out that 39 refugees ...
  • South Sudan Refugee Emergency

    news , 21 Jun 2012 (11 years ago )
    In this 5 minute clip we see refugees arriving in Yusuf Batil from Kilo 21, refugees' tales of suffering and the challenges humanitarian actors are facing in dealing with the crisis.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Responding to a humanitarian crisis and saving lives: UNHCR in South Sudan

    news UNHCR, 25 Sep 2012 (11 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, ...
  • 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...
  • Helping young refugees in South Sudan find physical and emotional security

    news UNHCR, 05 Dec 2012 (11 years ago )
    YIDA, South Sudan, November 30 (UNHCR) – Karim* and his four friends, all aged 13, stop along the side of the road to take inventory of their remaining supplies. With their lightweight bags featuring Bob Marley and Winnie the Pooh strewn about, the boys lay out what stock they have left to travel th...
  • UNHCR to open new refugee camp in South Sudan's Unity State

    news UNHCR, 22 Jan 2013 (11 years ago )
    In South Sudan's Unity State, UNHCR is set to open a new refugee camp in the coming weeks. This will help us to manage further inflows of Sudanese refugees and to decongest the existing settlement in Yida, where essential services are overstretched.