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  • Talented refugees in Kenya showcase their artwork at a UNHCR Nairobi Exhibition

    news UNHCR, 10 Nov 2015 (8 years ago )
    On the occasion of launching an arts livelihood project for refugees in Kenya, over 50 artists mainly from Dadaab and Kakuma camps exhibited their artwork at the Alliance Française in Nairobi, from 4th to 6th November 2015. This first ever exhibition organized by UNHCR and its partner FilmAid ea...
  • US Ambassador visits Ajuong Thok camp with UNHCR as flow of Nuba refugees continues

    news UNHCR, 09 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    The UN Refugee Agency organized yesterday a one-day field trip to Ajuong Thok refugee camp, Unity State, for the US Ambassador to South Sudan, Molly Phee. This came as a response to the Ambassador’s request to gain first-hand information about the situation of Sudanese refugees fleeing South Kordofa...
  • Sudanese refugees seek safety in troubled South Sudan

    news UNHCR, 28 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    AJUONG THOK, South Sudan, Dec 28 (UNHCR) – Through the cracked windows of the bus, Amal Bakith's children watched the unfamiliar landscape roll by. Flat wetlands where cattle grazed and herons stalked swampfish; villages of domed homes with high thatch roofs; distant shady groves of acacia trees. ...
  • War and Hunger Drive South Sudan Displacement

    news UNHCR, 11 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    Sitting on the swept dirt floor, 31 people who fled home after years of war left them with nothing to eat take turns chewing at the dry flesh of a palm nut. They are mostly mothers with young children, and one older man at the back anxiously cradling his sick son. Everyone looks gaunt and bewilde...
  • South Sudanese refugees adapt to a new life in Kiryandongo

    news NTV, 05 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )
    South Sudanese refugees adapt to a new life in Kiryandongo. Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement is bursting at the seams, with the authorities saying they are overwhelmed as refugees continuously flee war in South Sudan. There seems to be no end in sight for war that broke out in December 2013 in Ugan...
  • UNHCR helps document internally displaced people at risk of statelessness

    news UNHCR, 03 Feb 2016 (8 years ago )
    JUBA, 03 February 2016 (UNHCR) – Chol Jacob was among half a million men, women and children who are at risk of becoming stateless in South Sudan, according to a UNHCR survey. Many have difficulty proving their links to South Sudan since the secession from Sudan in 2011, particularly those who ...
  • Congolese refugees flee new South Sudan fighting

    news UNHCR, 28 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )
    EZO, South Sudan, Jan 28 (UNHCR) – Congolese refugee Pierre fled violence several years ago, and hoped that he had found a place of safety in this border town in South Sudan – then security deteriorated rapidly and without warning. Clashes erupted between the so-called Arrow Boys and South Sudane...
  • Thousands of civilians flee violence in South Sudan state

    news AP, 09 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )
    JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency says a rise in fighting in a once-peaceful part of South Sudan has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes since December. Rocco Nuri, a spokesman for the agency, said Saturday that 23,000 civilians have fled their homes...
  • Aid groups, UN move refugees to safety after W Equatoria clashes

    news Radio Tamazuj, 28 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )
    Thirty Congolese refugees have been rescued from their hiding places in Ezo county of Western Equatoria state and brought to safety in Makpandu refugee camp in Yambio county, said refugee agency UNHCR. The refugees had been living in Ezo for several years after fleeing fighting in their own count...
  • 150 Congolese refugees stranded without food after W Equatoria clashes

    news Radio Tamazuj, 12 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )
    150 Congolese refugees are stranded in the bush around Ezo in South Sudan's Equatoria state with little to eat amid continuing clashes, the UN's refugee agency said. UNHCR spokesperson Rocco Nuri told Radio Tamazuj that recent fighting in Western Equatoria has forced from their homes a total of 3...