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Khaled Hosseini Visits a Refugee Camp in Uganda
By Khaled Hosseini, award-winning author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Looking over the shoulder of Gladys, a young South Sudanese refugee flicking through a frayed album of old family photos, my mind flashes back to ...![Mother Opani and daughter find safety in Uganda](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/RF294007_20170307-1326-_DAZ8167-DA-2.jpg)
Mother Opani and daughter find safety in Uganda
When Opani Lilias was met by UNHCR aid workers at the Ugandan border, she had been walking for a week straight with her daughter Brenda swaddled to her chest. Carrying only a small suitcase, ...Press Release: 1 million South Sudan refugees in Uganda
South Sudan refugees in Uganda pass 1 million mark Geneva, 17.08.2017 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is today reiterating its call to the international community for urgent additional support for the South Sudan refugee ...![Over one million children flee South Sudan](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RF294216_20170309-1709-_DAZ0300-DA-1-1080x675.jpg)
Over one million children flee South Sudan
JUBA/GENEVA/NAIROBI/NEW YORK, 8 May 2017 – More than one million children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging the country, UNICEF and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today. “The horrifying fact ...![South Sudan: 3 Years of Civil War](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/RF294217_20170309-1715-_DAZ0303-DA-1-1080x675.jpg)
South Sudan: 3 Years of Civil War
This past December marked three years since the beginning of South Sudan’s latest civil war. Before December 2013, over 115,000 South Sudanese people were classified as refugees or asylum-seekers. Three years later, that number ...![Government of Uganda, UNHCR on South Sudan refugee situation](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/RF2107198__MG_8541-1080x675.jpg)
Government of Uganda, UNHCR on South Sudan refugee situation
Joint statement on behalf of the Government of Uganda and UNHCR The Government of Uganda and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today jointly appealed to the international community for urgent and massive ...![Poorer countries host most of the forcibly displaced – report](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/02272017-SamTarling-report-1.jpg)
Poorer countries host most of the forcibly displaced – report
According to a new UNHCR study, most of the 3.2 million who were driven from their homes in the first half of 2016 found shelter in low or middle income countries. GENEVA – Conflict, ...![Refugees fleeing South Sudan tops 1.5 million](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/UNHCR-Michele-Sibiloni-ssudanese-refugees-kuluba-transit-centre.jpg)
Refugees fleeing South Sudan tops 1.5 million
As violence surges, South Sudanese refugee population in Uganda more than triples in six months to 698,000. Sidah Hawa stares towards the horizon. The scorching sun filters through the sparse shade of the tree ...![South Sudan actor played dead to save his life](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20170926110644im_/http://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UNHCR-Massoumeh-Farman-Farmaian-Using-a-tree-branch-to-cross-to-Uganda.jpg)