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- Saturday 22 March 2014
March 21, 2014 (JUBA) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Friday that it was gravely concerned about new tensions arising in an area of South Sudan’s Upper Nile state due to food shortages. Children remain among the most (...)
- Wednesday 30 January 2013
Hepatitis E surge confirmed in South Sudanese refugee camps
PRESS RELEASE
January 25, 2013
Juba, South Sudan (UNHCR) – A surge in the number of cases of Hepatitis E in the four refugee camps near the border with Sudan has (...)
- Saturday 8 September 2012
September 7, 2012 (Juba) - The founder of eBay, an online auction site, Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam have given the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) $500,000 for emergency operations in South Sudan, where tens of thousands of refugees are (...)
- Monday 27 August 2012
August 26, 2012 (JUBA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has expressed concern over the health situation of thousands of refugees living in camps and settlements across South Sudan’s Upper Nile and Unity states. Sudanese refugees wait in (...)
- Wednesday 22 August 2012
By Julius N. Uma
August 21, 2012 (JUBA) - An average of at least three to four Sudanese children, under the age of five, have been dying daily at Batil refugee camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, as a result of Diarrhoea and (...)
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