Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, South Sudan
HIGHLIGHTS
- Given the scale and complexity of the situation in South Sudan, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator activated the level 3 humanitarian system wide level emergency response to ensure an effective response to the humanitarian needs of the affected people.
- Number of refugees crossing into Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda increased to nearly 156,000, who have left their country since 15 December 2013.
- More than 739,500 people remained internally displaced, including some 75,000 in 8 UN Protection of Civilian sites.
- UNHCR issued an advisory against returns to South Sudan, recommending that States suspend forcible returns of nationals or residents of South Sudan to the country, as the situation remains fluid and uncertain.
- While the rate of new arrivals slowed down in Kenya, more than 3,000 South Sudanese were registered in Uganda and the number of arrivals also spiked in Ethiopia.
- In Sudan, lack of access to monitor distribution forced UNHCR to suspend the distribution of much needed relief items.
- In Uganda, more than 30,000 South Sudanese refugees have been relocated from the reception and transit centres to the settlements. In total, 48,000 South Sudanese refugees have been given plots in the settlements since the beginning of the crisis.