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Food shortages in South Sudan force more people into exile, cause friction
21 Mar 2014 Local residents in Maban County demand that 60,000 refugees in Yusuf Batil and Gendrassa camps leave within two months. Hostilities spread to Doro and Kaya camps. -
UNHCR calls on the Americas to keep children on the run safe from violence
12 Mar 2014 UNHCR's "Children on the Run" report also urges governments to take action to keep children safe from rights abuses, violence and crime, and to ensure their access to asylum. -
UNHCR concerned about getting food deliveries to refugees in South Sudan
7 Mar 2014 The health and nutrition status of refugees is at risk and the problem is not just food shortages but the safe passage of other humanitarian relief supplies too. -
UNHCR urges stepped up help for CAR and South Sudan refugees
4 Mar 2014 The crises in South Sudan and the Central African Republic have together caused one of the biggest forced displacement situations Africa has seen in recent years. -
Fresh water brings life back to traumatized South Sudan village
26 Feb 2014 UNHCR makes it possible for hundreds of villagers to go home by drilling two boreholes to replace a stream contaminated in recent fighting. -
US wraps up group resettlement for Myanmar refugees in Thailand
29 Jan 2014 More than 70,000 Myanmar refugees have been resettled from Thailand's camps to the United States as one of the world's largest resettlement programmes comes to an end. -
LEGO Foundation donates US$3 million to build a future for refugee children
24 Jan 2014 The donation will fund UNHCR education programmes in Chad, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda and Yemen. -
Born on the run: South Sudanese mothers name babies to reflect ordeal
23 Jan 2014 Thousands of South Sudanese refugee babies will forever be identified by the way they came into the world – as their mothers fled conflict in their homeland. -
Uganda: South Sudan conflict leaves women and children to cope as refugees
20 Jan 2014 UN refugee agency rallies to provide the special needs of refugees in northern Uganda, where men are the minority of those fleeing fighting in South Sudan.