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Against the River’s Flow

While the snaking Nile River flows lazily northwards – draining out of the great equatorial Sud wetlands in central South Sudan – another mass displacement of people in this instance, is occurring in the opposite direction. More than 630,000 people over the past year have fled the brutal civil war in Sudan, seeki...

A number of families fleeing Sudan’s conflict searching for separated children in Aweil west county

Since mid-April the on-going conflict in Sudan has forced almost 90,000 people to flee their homes and take the dangerous journey into South Sudan and other neighboring Countries. Throughout this ordeal, many children are being lost or separated from their parents and caregivers. In South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el...

Hungry, weary and lost

It’s over 40 degrees under the scorching sun in the once small border village of Roriak in the north of Unity State in South Sudan. Since 2021, tens of thousands of people have been displaced in and around Bentiu after flooding engulfed much of the area. Now, tens of thousands more are arriving each week across th...

UNICEF South Sudan Emergency response to Sudan Crisis

Women and children are highly vulnerable and arriving to South Sudan exhausted, hungry, weak, and dehydrated and many without the means to reach their final destinations. The vulnerability of families arriving is visibly increasing, with high numbers of malnourished as well as those in need of medical attention. W...

The challenges faced by children and women fleeing conflict in Sudan

As Sudan’s conflict continues to deteriorate, the number of those displaced to South Sudan continues to increase, with an estimated 90,000 people crossing into the country as of 31 May, according to UN reports.   One of the most congested towns hosting and transiting thousands of returnees and refugees is Renk T...

Children fleeing Sudan suffering increased disease and sickness

As the fighting in Sudan continues, tens of thousands South Sudanese, Sudanese and other nationals are streaming into Renk, a remote town on the most northern border with Sudan; they are sheltering in a University grounds set up as a transit point. Faced with shortages of food, water, shelter and space, people, pa...

Sudan violence forces at least 450,000 children to flee their homes

NEW YORK/AMMAN/NAIROBI/DAKAR, 12 May 2023 – UNICEF is stepping up humanitarian support for children on the move affected by the ongoing conflict in Sudan. As violence continues, an estimated 82,000 children have fled to neighbouring countries and approximately 368,000 more are newly displaced inside the country. A...

The desperate faces of children fleeing conflict in Sudan

Severely malnourished, Chinhial Gathok, fled the fighting in Khartoum with her South Sudanese mother, father and sibling, and arrived in Renk County, Upper Nile State, bordering Sudan. The three-day journey from Sudan to Renk further deteriorated her fragile health. Chinhail was screened at the transit site and s...

01 February 2023

A baby boy reunited with his mother

Nyandit* shed tears of joy, when she reunited with her seven month old baby boy. Nyandit is a victim of recent inter-communal violence in Pibor, after she was abducted and suffered injuries due to abuse resulting from beating and separated from her baby by the perpetrators. In early January, the Greater Pibor Admi...

19 January 2023

Vocational training restores hope for former child soldiers in Western Equatoria

Yambio, South Sudan - While South Sudan's civil war ended in 2018, conflict and violence affecting and involving children remains common. For former child soldiers who still suffer from the trauma of war, a training programme allows them to recoup some of their lost childhood dreams. Emmanuel, Susan and Tito* were...

13 January 2023

UNICEF statement on abducted women and children in Pibor

Juba, South Sudan - UNICEF condemns the recent abductions of women and children, rape, sexual violence, physical beatings and gross deprivations inflicted upon upwards of 65 people (16 women and 49 children) in the Pibor Administrative Area in South Sudan. There can be no justification, not in past atrocities, not in any culture, nor in any law,…

05 December 2022

UNICEF appeals for US$10.3 billion emergency funding to support children affected by conflict, catastrophe and climate crises around the world

GENEVA/NEW YORK, 5 December 2022 – UNICEF today launched a US$10.3 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 173 million people – including 110 million children – affected by humanitarian crises, the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide and the growing threat of climate-impacted severe wea...