Heavy fighting in South Sudan's Unity and Upper Nile states over the last two months has displaced more than 100,000 people and blocked humanitarian aid deliveries for some 650,000 people as aid organizations were forced to withdraw. Since the beginning of the year, some 60,000 South Sudanese have fled the country, mostly to Sudan (30,000), Ethiopia (15,000) and Uganda (15,000) bringing the total South Sudanese who fled the country since December 2013 to some 555,000, while some 1.5 million are internally displaced in the country.

An average of 180 South Sudanese refugees arriving in Ethiopia as South Sudan marks its 4th anniversary of independence on Thursday. Ethiopia shelters 700k ref.

US Assistant Secretary of State, BPRM, Anne Richard, and Ambassador, Patricia Haslach, visited Pagak Entry Point, and the Kule 1 and Kule 2 refugee camps.

Gambella Regional Council announces Pamdong Refugee Camp as a new site and changes the names of Kule 1 to "Kule Camp" and Kule 2 to "Tierkidi Camp".

UNHCR Gambella welcomes new Head of Sub Office, Ms. Angele Djohossou.

Refugee Coordination Mission from Geneva visited Gambella from 12 – 14 Nov 2014.

The relocation of refugees from Matar way station to Pugnido refugee camp commenced on 17 November.

UNHCR Representative, Mr Valentin Tapsoba, was in Gambella from 16-22 November to witness the launching of the relocation exercise from Matar to Pugnido camp

UNHCR conducted 2014 Code of Conduct (COC) training session for all Staff in Gambella Sub-Office and at Nyin Nyang Field Office.

UNHCR estimates that more than 11,000 new arrivals from South Sudan arrived in Burubiey, Gambella Regional State over the past 72 hours.