UNHCR welcomes Uganda Communications Commission directive to improve refugees’ access to SIM cards.

UNHCR welcomes Ethiopia’s historic new refugee law which will now allow refugees to obtain work permits, access primary education, obtain drivers’ licenses, legally register life events such as births and marriages and open up access to national financial services, such as banking.

UNHCR was part of a HCT-led assessment of Leer, Akobo and Pagak to explore the possibility of the assisted relocation of IDPs from the POC sites of Bor and Wau.

UNHCR together with the government refugee agency-ARRA- and other partners marking World Refugee Day in Addis Ababa on 19 June 2015.

UNHCR together with the Commission for Refugee Affairs and DRC facilitated the election of 72 refugee representatives (36 men and 36 women) in Ajuong Thok.

UNHCR together with refugees and partner organizations kicked off World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) in refugee camps across South Sudan.

UNHCR teamed up with UNMAS to provide mine risk education training to 150 internally displaced South Sudanese living at the Wau POC.

UNHCR supported the visit of US Bureau of Population, Refugee and Migration (BPRM) in Yei and Yambio aiming at monitoring and reviewing BPRM-funded programmes.

UNHCR started the relocation of about 3,000 South Sudanese refugees who have been staying at Pagak entry point to Pugnido refugee camp.

UNHCR staff resumed critical activities in Yida, including registration of an estimated 650 Sudanese Refugees who arrived in Yida during the last three weeks