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  • الاثنين, 23 ديسمبر - 2024

1 Million South Sudan Refugees Now In Uganda, UN Says

Agencies (Qasioun) – The United Nations UN said on Thursday that the number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million.

 

Ugandan officials say they are overwhelmed by the flow of people fleeing South Sudan's civil war and the U.N. refugee agency urges the international community to donate more for humanitarian assistance.

 

An average of 1,800 South Sudanese citizens have been arriving daily in Uganda over the past 12 months, the UNHCR said in a statement. Another one million or more South Sudanese are sheltering in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo and Central African Republic.

 

"Recent arrivals continue to speak of barbaric violence, with armed groups reportedly burning down houses with civilians inside, people being killed in front of family members, sexual assaults of women and girls and kidnapping of boys for forced conscription," the statement said.

 

"With refugees still arriving in their thousands, the amount of aid we are able to deliver is increasingly falling short."

 

Noteworthy that a fundraising summit hosted by Uganda in June raised only a fraction of the $2 billion that Ugandan officials have said is needed to sufficiently look after the refugees and the communities hosting them.

 

Source: ABC News

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