(December 3, 2013) The National Legislative Assembly Tuesday ratified the United Nations' convention against torture. South Sudan became the 155th country to commit to the measures to prevent acts of torture or other forms of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. Hon. Gabriel G...

13 January 2014 - As hundreds of civilians continued to seek refuge UNMISS bases in Juba, the mission and humanitarian partners were preparing to move some internally displaced people (IDPs) to a new protection site, an International Organization for Migration official said today in Juba. “A new si...

More than 200 civilians in South Sudan have drowned in a Nile ferry accident while fleeing fighting in the town of Malakal, an army spokesman has said. He said women and children were among the victims in Sunday's disaster. More than 350,000 people have been displaced by the fighting between the S...

ADJUMANI, Uganda, January 20 (UNHCR) – Walk around Dzaipi transit centre in northern Uganda and you will see thousands of children running about, tents full of pregnant women, young mothers and newborns, and elderly women resting against trees. What you do not see are many men. Women and children...

From Mid-December 2013, the country is engulfed in an internal armed conflict following an alleged “coup” attempt by anti-government forces, which has left thousands of people dead and more than 800, 000 others displaced from their homes. This has exacerbated the already precarious humanitarian sit...

Geneva (AFP) - Up to 1,000 refugees from war-torn South Sudan are fleeing to Ethiopia each day, many of them on the brink of death, the UN said Tuesday. Since fighting erupted in December, refugees have been "arriving at a rate of 800-1,000 per day, and they are arriving on their last legs," Meli...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 6 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday reported a sharp rise in the number of refugees fleeing South Sudan's conflict, after government forces captured the rebel stronghold of Nasir in the Greater Upper Nile region over the weekend. "In the past 72 hours, over 11,...

Geneva, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Over 11,000 South Sudanese came to Ethiopia to escape from a war that already caused thousands of deaths, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to Adrian Edwards, UNHCR spokesman, the exodus began after news that government forces took control...

UN envoy Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of the ruler of Dubai, said she was "unprepared" for the suffering she found when visiting refugees in western Ethiopia, which now hosts 170,000 South Sudanese who have fled fighting in their homeland since December.

DZAIPI TRANSIT CENTRE, Uganda, January 23 (UNHCR) – Sophia and Olivia might be among the most popular girls' names in the West these days, but in Dzaipi transit centre in northern Uganda the clear winner for newborn girls is Nyaring. In the Dinka language it means "running," and sums up the way they...