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  • Hepatitis E toll rises to more than 100 in South Sudan refugee camps

    news UNHCR, 18 Feb 2013 (11 years ago )
    Hepatitis E toll rises to more than 100 in South Sudan refugee camps
  • In a move to a new camp, refugees in South Sudan respond cautiously

    news UNHCR, 17 Apr 2013 (10 years ago )
    YIDA, South Sudan, April 17 (UNHCR) – During the past three weeks, Hassam Neel Salom has been among a small, but growing number of refugees who have moved from a crowded and insecure settlement near a contested section of the border between South Sudan and Sudan to a new camp.
  • Upper Nile lawmakers learn rights of vulnerable

    news UNMISS - United Nation Mission in South Sudan, 24 May 2013 (10 years ago )
    24 May 2013 - Educating lawmakers in the rights of vulnerable persons, UNMISS concluded a two day workshop today in the Upper Nile capital of Malakal. The training, which drew 46 parliamentarians, covered the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Sudan Transitional Constitution and Upper Nil...
  • Emergency repairs provide humanitarian access in South Sudan

    news UNOPS, 24 May 2013 (10 years ago )
    UNOPS is providing emergency infrastructure services to help humanitarian organizations maintain supply routes to more than 180,000 refugees in remote areas of South Sudan.
  • World refugee increase is highest since 1999, UNHCR report shows

    news The Guardian, 19 Jun 2013 (10 years ago )
    There were 1.1 million new refugees around the world in 2012, the highest rise in new refugee numbers since 1999, statistics published by the United Nations on Wednesday show. The annual UNHCR global trends in displacement report highlights that last year 7.6 million people were newly displaced due...
  • UN condemns shelling of Sudan base which killed ‘blue helmet,’ injured two others

    news UN News Centre, 14 Jun 2013 (10 years ago )
    14 June 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest terms the shelling on a United Nations logistics base in Sudan’s South Kordofan State which killed at least one UN peacekeeper and wounded two others. “I urge the Government of Sudan and the SPLM-North [Sudan People’s Lib...
  • Sudan, South Sudan Agree to End Row Over Rebels, Oil Exports

    news The Wall Street Journal, 02 Jul 2013 (10 years ago )
    The governments of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to refrain from backing proxy rebels to allow the continued export of South's crude through Sudan, giving a potential lifeline to their respective economies, officials said Tuesday. At the end of two days of talks in Khartoum, the Sudanese capita...
  • South Sudan: New refugees from Sudan in need of assistance

    news MSF, 11 Oct 2013 (10 years ago )
    Some 2,500 Sudanese from the troubled South Kordofan State have arrived in the towns of Kodok and Lelo, in Fashoda and Malakal counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state in need of humanitarian assistance. Many of the displaced are women and children. They have walked between five and 10 days, fl...
  • Unity calls for new girls' laws

    news UNMISS, 17 Oct 2013 (10 years ago )
    17 October 2013 - Recommending new laws to protect girls’ rights, Unity State Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNICEFcelebrated International Day of the Girl Child today in the capital Bentiu. Speaking during the event (traditionally celebrated on 11 October), state Education Technical...
  • Mass yellow fever vaccination campaign to stem spread in Sudan

    news Radio Dabanga, 04 Dec 2013 (10 years ago )
    The Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has notified the World Health Organisation (WHO) of a yellow fever outbreak in West and South Kordofan. Between 3 October and 24 November, a total of 44 suspected cases of yellow fever, including 14 deaths, were reported. The field investigation carr...