Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict
1 year, 7 months ago

Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict

Associated Press  

RENK, South Sudan — Tens of thousands of exhausted people are heading home to the world’s youngest country as they flee a brutal conflict in neighboring Sudan. “After escaping danger there’s more violence,” said South Sudanese Alwel Ngok, sitting on the ground outside a church. If that pipeline is damaged, South Sudan’s economy could collapse within months, said Ferenc David Marko, a researcher at the International Crisis Group. The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration is trying to send the most vulnerable South Sudanese who have returned — some 8,000 people — home by boat, with the goal of transporting nearly 1,000 people daily along the Nile to the state capital of Malakal.

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A year of violence, of displacement, of violations in Sudan’s war
8 months, 4 weeks ago

A year of violence, of displacement, of violations in Sudan’s war

Al Jazeera  

A year since it started, the war in Sudan has spiralled into one of the world’s largest and most complex displacement crises. Since April 15, 2023, more than 8.6 million people have fled their homes, with 1.8 million people, mostly women and children, crossing to neighbouring countries. UNHCR and the World Health Organization are warning of the worsening health situation …

Agonising wait for Sudanese refugees at crowded UN camps
10 months, 1 week ago

Agonising wait for Sudanese refugees at crowded UN camps

The Hindu  

A new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan. Renk is just 10 kilometres from Sudan, where fighting broke out in April last year between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed …

Sudanese refugees face gruelling wait in overcrowded South Sudan camps
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Sudanese refugees face gruelling wait in overcrowded South Sudan camps

Al Jazeera  

A new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan. Renk is just 10km from Sudan, where fighting broke out in April last year between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan …

Photos: Inside South Sudan’s worsening refugee crisis, in Renk and Maban
11 months ago

Photos: Inside South Sudan’s worsening refugee crisis, in Renk and Maban

Al Jazeera  

For the last 10 months, thousands of people have fled the civil war in Sudan to Renk, a town just over the border in South Sudan. In December, United Nations agencies registered 71, 757 people, the highest number of new arrivals from any month last year. The latter likely left South Sudan when the country experienced its own civil war …

Renk, South Sudan: Life, death and fear for refugees
1 year, 6 months ago

Renk, South Sudan: Life, death and fear for refugees

Al Jazeera  

Renk, South Sudan – Under a makeshift tent, Nyaluak* cradles her baby boy, born only minutes ago and looking placidly up into his mother’s eyes unaware of his surroundings. The juxtaposition of joy and trauma could not be plainer in the Renk Transit Centre, 40km south of the border with Sudan, where local relief staff say an infant dies nearly …

Grim homecoming for South Sudanese fleeing Sudan violence
1 year, 7 months ago

Grim homecoming for South Sudanese fleeing Sudan violence

New Indian Express  

The influx adds to an already dire situation in South Sudan, a troubled country that has struggled with war, famine and natural disasters since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011. The scene near the border is grim, with children suffering malnutrition, tensions over limited resources, and families sleeping in the open as the camp's population climbs by the day. "We …

South Sudanese flee Sudan’s conflict yet return to crisis
1 year, 8 months ago

South Sudanese flee Sudan’s conflict yet return to crisis

Associated Press  

CANAL-PIGI COUNTY, South Sudan — Moments after gunshots and explosions rang out in Khartoum, killing civilians and damaging buildings, Nyarok Gach grabbed her eight children and reluctantly began the treacherous journey home. More than 40,000 people — mostly South Sudanese — have crossed the border since Sudan erupted in conflict nearly a month ago. “People are arriving at border areas …

Photos: South Sudanese refugees return to their troubled home
1 year, 8 months ago

Photos: South Sudanese refugees return to their troubled home

Al Jazeera  

The last place Lina Mijok wanted to go as she fled fighting in Sudan was back to her own country, South Sudan, which she had left as civil war erupted in 2013. But when Sudan’s army started battling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the streets around her home last month, South Sudan was the only place she and her …

10,000 refugees flee to South Sudan as conflict rages
1 year, 8 months ago

10,000 refugees flee to South Sudan as conflict rages

Hindustan Times  

Around 10,000 refugees have entered South Sudan from Sudan in recent days fleeing fighting between the army and paramilitary forces, officials in South Sudan's Renk County said on Monday. The army commander in Renk, Dau Aturjong, said three-quarters of the arrivals are South Sudanese while the rest are Sudanese, Eritrean, Kenyan, Ugandan and Somali. Sudan hosts 800,000 South Sudanese refugees …

South Sudan's president calls on refugees to return home
1 year, 10 months ago

South Sudan's president calls on refugees to return home

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy South Sudan’s president has urged the country’s more than 2 …

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