UNHCR High Profile Supporter Jung Woo-sung travelled to South Sudan and met Samson, a 21-year-old Sudanese refugee in Ajuong Thok camp who is a teacher and dreams of becoming a journalist. He showed Jung Woo-sung some of the photos and stories that he has written to highlight the situation of his pe...

GENEVA, June 2 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Tuesday reported that heavy fighting over the last two months in South Sudan's Unity and Upper Nile states has displaced more than 100,000 people and blocked humanitarian aid deliveries for some 650,000 people. "Refugees cite the upsurge in fighti...

30 June 2015 – The South Sudanese armed forces may have committed widespread human rights abuses, including the alleged raping and immolation of women and girls, during the recent upsurge in fighting across the African State, according to a new report released by the United Nations mission in the co...

JUBA, South Sudan (May 25) – Since April UNHCR has been providing satellite phone call services to some of the South Sudanese displaced in the Protection of Civilian (POC) site in Wau wishing to find and talk to their relatives displaced elsewhere in South Sudan. "These satellite calls help IDP...

YAMBIO, June 23, 2015 [Gurtong] – Thousands of people around have sought refuge within the republic of South Sudan due to war and atrocities in the home country. According to the United Nation High Commissions for Refugees in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, a total of 10,338 from different...

South Sudan police says it is working together with aid agencies to form a police unit that will provide protection to refugees in camps around the country. According to UNHCR, South Sudan is hosting over 250,000 refugees from the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Et...

South Sudan Government Officials, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee or UNHCR, refugees and ordinary citizens in Juba are celebrating the World Refugee Day today Saturday at Nyökurön Cultural Centre. UNHCR in a statement says it is a special day to honor the courage, strength and res...

In South Sudan, which on Thursday this week will mark its 4th anniversary of independence, refugee and internally displaced numbers have continued to rise. As of today, more 730,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries and some 1.5 million people have become internally displaced. In addition, ...

Geneva/Juba : The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expresses deep concern over the deaths in South Sudan of more than a dozen people following clashes that forced doctors and nurses to vacate a hospital where advanced surgeries had been taking place. On the morning of Sunday, July ...

"I cannot stop comparing what life was before and what it has now become. Before the conflict, my biggest worry was studying and getting good marks. All of a sudden I found myself in a camp for displaced people queuing for water and food." Our colleague Rocco recently met Rodha sitting with her m...