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South Sudan: 200 000 refugees from Sudan
Gaza Strip: Specialised surgery penalised by the embargo
Malnutrition in the Sahel: A whole new approach required
Swaziland: Inappropriate treatment for children
Neglected diseases: Solutions to forgotten diseases
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Close to 500 people a day are arriving at the camp in Yida, South Sudan. The UNHCR reports a total of 63,500 refugees in an already overcrowded camp originally intended for 15,000 people. Having walked for days, and sometimes weeks, across the Nuba Mountains fleeing conflict and food insecurity in Southern Kordofan in neighbouring Sudan, the refugees arrive in extremely poor health.
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Since May, more than 25,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have crossed from North Kivu province into southwestern Uganda, fleeing clashes between the DRC’s army and rebel groups.
On July 4, fighting neared border town Bunagana and the flow of new arrivals intensified. Vincent, 30, is one of them. "We fled because we were frightened by the fighting between the army and the rebels,” he said.
7-5 |
South Sudan: Jamam refugee camp under water, MSF warns crisis worsening
Preliminary studies reveal mortality rates nearly double the emergency threshold in a refugee camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, currently home to a quarter of roughly 120,000 refugees who have fled Sudan’s Blue Nile State since late last year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned.
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Jordan: Syrian patients in Amman hospital
Mali crisis: Desert refugees
Nigeria : Lead poisoning
Haiti: Severe burns unit
Kenya : Victims of sexual violence
Guinea : Cholera vaccination