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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

[South Sudan]: AlJazeera - Africa S Sudanese refugees forced to flee to Darfur




Picture belongin to the article: The outlook for the humanitarian situation is dire if the violence continues, 
the United Nations says [AFP]
 The civil war in South Sudan has left people so hungry and desperate for relief that they are even fleeing across the border into Darfur, a long-troubled region of famine and suffering in neighboring Sudan, according to the United Nations.

About 900,000 South Sudanese are homeless since the conflict erupted in December, and about 195,000 of them have fled as refugees to Uganda, Ethiopia and even into Darfur, the UN humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan Tony Lanzer told the Associated Press on Tuesday.