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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
UNHCR is in contact with government authorities regarding the security of those refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
The implications for humanitarian access to some 2500 refugees living in Western Equatoria are very worrying
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
Overall, these are alarming developments for a region of South Sudan that has until now been relatively stable
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
The influx has continued into 2016 so far albeit at a much reduced rate. The government refugee agency has recorded 268 in the past week
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
By 6 Jan, 6,181 new arrivals, mostly around Dungu - 4,164 South Sudanese and 2,017 Congolese previously living as refugees in South Sudan
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
Fighting in Western Equatoria had displaced over 4Kpeople into remote region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last month
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
As well as the violence, refugees cite food insecurity due to failed crops as a reason for their flight.
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
500 refugees have been registered every day since the beginning of this week – a quadrupling in recent numbers
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
The violence is also driving people to flee their homes and head hundreds of kilometres to the southeast into neighbouring Uganda @Refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 08/01/2016
A recent UN mission to Yambio found nearly 200 houses burnt down in the neighbourhood of Ikpiro and several hundred others looted @refugees
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