Grandi appealed to Member States to bolster support for host countries. “85 per cent of the world’s refugees are in poor or middle-income countries. That’s where the crisis is. Support must be stepped up,” he said. “Their hospitality must not be taken for granted.”

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...

Hundreds of civilians who were taken by opposition forces in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria region during an uptick in fighting are still missing, the UN’s top rights official said on Thursday, in a call for their immediate release.

“These attacks on vulnerable civilians are absolutely abhorrent and must stop,” said the head of UNMISS David Shearer.

Desperate South Sudan villagers, fleeing fighting across the country, are eating grass and roots to survive as humanitarian organisations start costly air drops of food to northern parts of the country. UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said on Tuesday the international community h...

Over 26,000 South Sudanese refugees displaced by violence crossed the border into Uganda this month, reported the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday. "Since fighting erupted on July 7 … 26,468 people have crossed into Uganda's northern region," UN refugee agency spokesman Andreas Nee...

Dr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), visited Tierkidi refugee camp in western Ethiopia, home to nearly 50,000 refugees who fled the ongoing war in South Sudan. He held focus group discussions with refugee representatives and toured some key camp amenitie...

YAMBIO, 14 August, 2015 [Gurtong] – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) country representative Ahmed Warsame told the press that Western Equatoria State is one of the states in the country that are hosting several refugees who have fled their homes as a result of the conflict...

Since the signature of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) on 11 September 2018, 2 the permanent ceasefire is being upheld in most parts of the country and there is a marked reduction in violence. 3 Nevertheless, conflict remains ...

The UN Refugee Agency and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have distributed seeds and agricultural tools to 200,000 refugees and their host communities across South Sudan to help them become more self-sufficient in a country facing a serious food crisis. Assessments have...