South Sudan
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Child-Friendly spaces in South Sudan by Plan International
Jun 16, 2017News Hour: Plan International has been setting up day centres across South Sudan to provide a safe environment in which children affected by the country’s conflict and food crisis can learn and play. At this child-friendly... -
China contributes $5 million to WFP’s emergency operation in South Sudan
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Today the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$5 million from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide food assistance to 160,000 people affected by acute... -
Cholera outbreak spreads in South Sudan
May 14, 2017News Hour: An IOM Rapid Response Team was deployed to Jonglei, South Sudan, late last month (25/04) in response to a cholera outbreak affecting more than 230 people in Ayod County. The IOM team is supporting... -
Humanitarian needs spike for thousands displaced in Wau, South Sudan
Apr 26, 2017News Hour: IOM, the UN Migration Agency and partners are responding to an influx of more than 22,000 displaced persons in and around Wau town, South Sudan, since the upsurge of violence on 10 April 2017.... -
8,000 people displaced by recent violence in Wau, South Sudan
Apr 15, 2017News Hour: A recent upsurge in violence beginning 10 April has displaced an estimated 8,000 people in South Sudan’s Wau town. International Organization for Migration (IOM) teams and relief agencies are providing assistance to new arrivals... -
WFP uses new route through Sudan to deliver food to famine-hit South Sudan
Apr 2, 2017News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began to move food assistance to reach famine-hit and food-insecure people in South Sudan by using a newly opened humanitarian corridor announced by the Government of... -
Time is running out for children as famine, drought and war threaten millions
Mar 29, 2017News Hour: More than a month after famine was declared in South Sudan, time is running out for more than a million children as drought and armed conflict devastate lives in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan... -
Six aid workers killed in an ambush in South Sudan
Mar 27, 2017News Hour: Six aid workers were killed in an ambush in South Sudan on Saturday while traveling from the capital Juba to the town of Pibor, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying if they... -
US And WFP support food-insecure populations in Sudan and South Sudan
Mar 22, 2017News Hour: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), today welcomed the second of two recent shipments carrying urgently required food assistance for Sudan and South Sudan.... -
South Sudanese refugees trained on environment conservation at Jewi camp, Ethiopia
Mar 20, 2017News Hour: As part of its efforts to support the refugees and host communities in the Gambella Region of Ethiopia, IOM organized a training this week (15/03) for South Sudanese refugees on the impacts of deforestation...
