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  • Africa’s biggest road race

    news UNHCR, 23 Jan 2015 (9 years ago )
    Gambella, Ethiopia, January 14 - Two dozen South Sudanese refugees were on the run again over the weekend, but not for their lives this time. They were taking part in a five-kilometer fun run in western Ethiopia’s Gambella region to mark the completion of the United Nations Millennium Development Go...
  • The Things They Left Behind

    news Hannah McNeish Based in Gambella, Ethiopia, 15 Dec 2014 (9 years ago )
    Whenever you leave home, there’s inevitably something you crave: a food, a place, an item of clothing or just your own bed. It’s far worse when you have no time to pack. In the past year nearly 200,000 people have fled to Ethiopia to escape a brutal civil war in South Sudan. They ran for days, weeks...
  • World Disability Day: South Sudanese woman overcomes blindness to reach safety

    news By Hannah McNeish in Tierkidi, Ethiopia, 03 Dec 2014 (9 years ago )
    News Stories, 3 December 2014 TIERKIDI, Ethiopia, December 3 (UNHCR) – The sound of gunfire filling her ears, Nyantay Gatkuoth, 40-something and blind, could only catch snippets of conversation from people running past her about what was happening. As she felt her way around her village of May...
  • An Uncle Throws a Lifeline

    news Sulaiman Momodu Based in Gambella, Ethiopia, 27 Nov 2014 (9 years ago )
    Biel Jock steps out of the bus and looks around at Ethiopia’s Pugnido refugee camp. It has been a long journey for the 27-year-old from Nyirol County, South Sudan, but his first question is not about food or shelter. Instead, it is whether there is a secondary school nearby. “I want to go back to sc...
  • South Sudan’s next generation in a hurry to fight

    news The Guardian, 12 Nov 2014 (9 years ago )
    The boys skipping under the limp yellow string and ragged red flag that officially separates rebel-held South Sudan and Ethiopia escaped massacres, starvation and disease to seek shelter and safety across the border after a weeks-long walk that claimed many lives. Despite food rations and fears o...
  • Irish president urges stepped up aid for South Sudan refugees in Ethiopia

    news TIERKIDI REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, 05 Nov 2014 (9 years ago )
    News Stories, 5 November 2014 Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins during his visit to meet South Sudanese refugees in eastern Ethiopia. TIERKIDI REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, November 5 (UNHCR) – Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins has called on the international community to do much more to hel...
  • John Ging (OCHA), briefing on his recent trip to Ethiopia - Press Conference

    news UN Web TV, 23 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    23 Jul 2014 - John Ging, Operations Director of the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He briefs on his recent trip to Ethiopia.
  • Ethiopia faces wave of refugees from South Sudan, warns UN relief official

    news UN News Center, 23 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    South Sudan is the most rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the world today, according to a senior United Nations relief operations official who made an urgent appeal for desperately-needed funding for Ethiopia, which hosts 180,000 mostly women and children South Sudanese refugees.
  • Humanitarian Crisis Unfolding in South Sudan

    news CCTV Africa, 22 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    Over 200 thousand South Sudanese refugees are seeking shelter in Ethiopia,and many more are streaming in. Reports indicate that the huge influx is straining Ethiopia's capacity. CCTV's Girum Chala reports from Pagak, Gambella, Ethiopia.
  • Japan’s Ambassador Visits South Sudanese Refugees Assisted By WFP in Gambella

    news ReliefWeb, 18 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    The Japanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, H.E. Mr. Kazuhiro Suzuki, visited refugee camps in Gambela yesterday (Thursday 17 July) to see how the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing critically-needed food assistance to South Sudanese refugees, thanks to Japan’s contribution of US$4.2 mi...