The Upper Nile refugee crisis – a view from the ground
Saturday, April 6th, 2013 Posted in Aid, Refugees/IDPs, South Sudan, Sudan | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6098" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A refugee woman sheltering in Jamam camp"][/caption] For its size, the humanitarian response to the Upper Nile State refugee crisis was one of the most expensive in the world, but what ...
Marking 10 years of conflict in Darfur
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 Posted in Conflict, Refugees/IDPs, Sudan | No Comments »A decade after fighting began in the Darfur region of Sudan, the 3.4 million people there who still require humanitarian assistance are watching a tenuous security situation deteriorate further still. Increasing conflict over the last months linked ...
Darfur – where are we now?
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 Posted in Conflict, Sudan | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5850" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A woman in Darfur"][/caption] It has been ten years since the Darfur conflict erupted and millions fled their homes in the countryside for the safety of towns and camps. If you do not live in Sudan, it ...
Restrictions hampering life-saving response in North Darfur
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 Posted in Conflict, Refugees/IDPs, Sudan | No Comments »Fears new fighting may be on the horizon after tens of thousands of people displaced in Jebel Amir gold producing area Tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting in the largest displacement in Darfur in recent years ...
New sites for South Sudan refugee camps must be found, as Blue Nile conflict enters second year
Friday, September 21st, 2012 Posted in Press release, Refugees/IDPs, South Sudan, Sudan | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5099" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Heavy rains have flooded camps"][/caption] Camps sheltering more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees in South Sudan’s Maban county are ticking timebombs, on the brink of a major outbreak of disease, international agency Oxfam said today. At least 16 refugees ...
South Sudan returnees struggle to keep small businesses afloat
Thursday, August 16th, 2012 Posted in South Sudan, Sudan | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_4804" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Makei Agar selling sugar in his shop"][/caption] An Oxfam project helping returnees to South Sudan to start new businesses has had a great impact - but has recently been affected by the economic crisis hitting the country. Makei ...
Hopes and fears in South Kordofan
Monday, July 16th, 2012 Posted in Conflict, Food security, Sudan | No Comments »The stories, said Ismail, are in their eyes. Ismail Abdalla Algazouli is an Oxfam colleague in Khartoum, Sudan, who spoke to me recently when he returned from a trip to the war-torn state of South Kordofan. He is ...
South Sudan: Returning to hunger
Saturday, July 7th, 2012 Posted in Food security, South Sudan, Sudan | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4530" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Returnees in South Sudan"][/caption] As South Sudan celebrates the first anniversary of its separation from Sudan, the world’s newest nation faces multiple challenges including simmering tensions along the border, the influx of an estimated 165,500 refugees from ...
One year on, South Sudan falters under failing economy
Friday, July 6th, 2012 Posted in Conflict, Food security, South Sudan, Sudan | No Comments »Skyrocketing fuel and food prices deepening humanitarian crisis as country teeters on economic meltdown One year after South Sudan’s independence on July 9, the young country is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the war in 2005, ...
“As difficult as it gets” – new influx of refugees into South Sudan
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 Posted in Health, South Sudan, Sudan, Water/sanitation | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4371" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A recently arrived young woman in Jamam"][/caption] In the past couple of weeks, another 30,000 refugees have fled the conflict in the Blue Nile region of Sudan and arrived in Upper Nile in South Sudan - adding ...