Informes

Mogadishu, 22 April 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, condemned the killing of Mr. Abdiaziz Isaaq Mursal, a Member of the country’s Federal Parliament. Mr. Mursal was shot…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, April 22 (UNHCR) – The flood waters that swept through the capital of Burundi this year did not distinguish between citizens of Burundi and the thousands of urban refugees living among them. Neither did…

Last week’s fighting doubles population sheltering at UN base JUBA, South Sudan, 22 April 2014 – Tens of thousands of people who fled targeted ethnic violence in Bentiu last week are receiving just one litre of safe…

By Faith Kasina | 22 April 2014 “The wind came and took everything,” said Marta Awili, a mother of five in one of South Sudan’s relief camps in the capital Juba. In less than an hour what she…

Katarina Höije, for Swedish Red Cross They lack almost everything Hundreds of thousands are displaced following violence in South Sudan, which has emptied entire villages. The displaced lack food, water and shelter. Low mud huts and crooked sheds, made…

Bonifacio Taban ARUA, UGANDA — Sarah Nyagut Ding spends about an hour and a half every day, waiting for her turn to draw water from a pump in the Ocea sector in Rhino resettlement camp in Uganda. Ding…

When epidemiologists with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recorded a high child mortality rate at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, MSF took action. Vaccine-preventable diseases, including pneumonia, were killing the camp’s children. Medical and…

KUTUM (21 Apr.) - About 10,000 newly displaced civilians who fled last week’s attacks by government-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on villages in Kutum locality, North Darfur, have reported an outbreak of diseases. The people, who have…

RASHAD (21 Apr.) - More than 70,000 Nuba Mountains civilians have been displaced as a result of the second phase of the dry season offensive by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), according to a press statement…

UM RAI (21 Apr.) - A North Darfur youth and a boy were critically injured on Monday after a grenade they found at the roadside detonated. Idriss Nile Salahuddin (20) had his hand blown off, and…