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3 July 2012 - 11:54amAs the security situation in the disputed region of Abyei improves, aid workers are gearing up to respond to the possible return of tens of thousands of displaced people who fled the area a year ago. In May 2011, an estimated 110,000 people fled their homes and villages when the Sudanese Armed... -
27 June 2012 - 4:00pmAfter years of civil war, even a basic telecommunications infrastructure was non-existent in South Sudan, the world’s youngest country. Aid workers, who often rely on satellites and Internet connections to report on the humanitarian and security situation, did not have reliable access to voice-and-... -
25 May 2012 - 10:23amMore than 4,500 of the 12,000 South Sudanese who were stranded at the Sudanese river port of Kosti have completed their journey home. This comes just over a week into the airlift operation to transport the refugees via Khartoum. The Sudanese authorities gave South Sudanese residents nine months to... -
3 May 2012 - 7:07pmUN agencies and humanitarian partners are helping to support thousands of South Sudanese who are stranded in Kosti in Sudan’s White Nile State. The State Governor has called for the 12,000 – 15,000 stranded people, and the international organizations that are helping them, to leave... -
30 March 2012 - 8:55pmSouth Sudan is not only the world’s youngest country, but also one of its poorest and least developed. More than half of its population does not have enough to eat, and over 1 million South Sudanese are severely food insecure. Since its independence from Sudan in July 2011, inter-communal...
