Thread: South Sudan refugees reach one million mark

A woman from South Sudan holds a child on her knees as she sits inside a make-shift camp at Nimule border, in Amuru Distric in Uganda on 16 July 2016Image copyrightAFP

More than 185,000 people have fled since July, and more continue to leave
South Sudan strife

The number of people who have fled South Sudan because of the country's civil war has passed the one million mark, the UN refugee agency says.

Fighting that broke out in the capital, Juba, in July is responsible for the latest surge in those fleeing, it says.
More than 1.6 million people are also displaced within South Sudan, meaning about 20% of the population have been made homeless since December 2013.
A fragile peace deal signed last year is on the brink of collapse.

"The violence in July came as a major setback to peace efforts in South Sudan," the UNHCR spokesman Leo Dobbs said in a statement.

"The fighting has shattered hopes for a real breakthrough and triggered new waves of displacement and suffering, while humanitarian organisations are finding it very difficult for logistical, security and funding reasons to provide urgent protection and assistance to the hundreds of thousands in need," Mr Dobbs said.

South Sudan refugees:
Uganda: 373,626 - more than a third of these have arrived since July; 20,000 over last week. New arrivals report fighting in south, attacks on civilians by armed groups, who loot, sexually assault women and girls and recruit boys
Ethiopia: 292,000 - 11,000 crossed into Gambella over the past week. New arrivals are from the Nuer group, including 500 children travelling alone, fearing renewed conflict after seeing troop movements
Sudan: 247,317 - 1,800 arriving each month in White Nile state, floods preventing others
Kenya: 90,000 - 300 a week fleeing insecurity, economic instability and drought
DR Congo: 40,000 - current influx is to Ituri province.

Many of the refugees arriving in Uganda, which hosts the most South Sudanese, are "exhausted after days walking in the bush and going without food or water. Many children have lost one or both of their parents", the UNHCR says.

A fall-out between President Salva Kiir and former Vice-President Machar - the most powerful members of their respective Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups - led to the civil war which erupted in December 2013.
They only agreed to settle their differences under intense international pressure, signing a peace deal in August 2015 - and Mr

Machar returned to Juba as vice-president in a unity government in April.
But battles then broke out between his bodyguards and presidential guards three months later, prompting him to flee.

Another member of his party has been appointed as vice-president, a move Mr Machar does not recognise.

Earlier this week, a report funded by George Clooney accused both Mr Kiir and Mr Machar, as well as their officials, of personally profiting from the war. Both men have denied the allegations.

The UN wants to deploy a 4,000-strong regional protection force for Juba which would have a more robust mandate than the 12,000 UN soldiers already in the country, however the mandate and size of the force still have to be agreed.

South Sudan refugees reach one million mark - BBC News

And the decades-long civil war was for......??

Originally Posted by thaimeme

And the decades-long civil war was for......??

Power and money.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

And the decades-long civil war was for......??

Indeed. You'd think they'd be sick of war by now.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Originally Posted by thaimeme

And the decades-long civil war was for......??

Indeed. You'd think they'd be sick of war by now.

The locals are probably sick of it, but the armed bandits aren't finished having a rape rampage.

The whole deal there seems to be down to tribalism, and the smaller tribes, mainly Xtian or other ethnic religions are being dealt to.

When I was a young boy I can remember all those Refos starving in Biafra. I remember it all over the news.

That part of the world has always been seriously fuked and is unlikely to change.

I reckon.

^

It's true innit,

That shit hole has had many decades to drag themselves out of the shit but it just goes on and on and on.

I mean how long should the rest of the world be expected to give a fuk. ????

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Please donate to Children in Need, and dig deep into your wallet to help, the BBC know what pictures to show, to tug at your heart strings and soften your hard cynical heart.

Leave these savages to it,does not matter how much aid the west gives,it always goes to shit.
Be nice if the OZ govt stopped importing refugees from South Sudan and Somalia as well,the scumbags are running riot in Melbourne,home invasions,carjacking etc and the PC govt is wring it's hands trying to deny it's got anything to do with race,these shits know they can do what they like and scream racism when caught.
you cannot import savages into western society and expert them to integrate into society.

Originally Posted by reddog

Leave these savages to it,does not matter how much aid the west gives,it always goes to shit.
Be nice if the OZ govt stopped importing refugees from South Sudan and Somalia as well,the scumbags are running riot in Melbourne,home invasions,carjacking etc and the PC govt is wring it's hands trying to deny it's got anything to do with race,these shits know they can do what they like and scream racism when caught.
you cannot import savages into western society and expert them to integrate into society.

I really like this post because it tells it exactly how it is. These trash have no idea or interest in integrating into a proper society.

We have exactly the same problem in Perth where these Somali refos have been imported into our society at the expense of the Tax payer of course.

Straight on Welfare, free medical, schooling, housing and all sorts of good shit.

They have taken over certain neighbor hoods North of Perth and if ya go there ya think your in some fuking African country not fuking Perth .

We call then " The Skinnies ".

Thank fok they stay North and do not come South to Fremantle.

The Australian Government is truly fuked.

Originally Posted by terry57

Originally Posted by reddog

Leave these savages to it,does not matter how much aid the west gives,it always goes to shit.
Be nice if the OZ govt stopped importing refugees from South Sudan and Somalia as well,the scumbags are running riot in Melbourne,home invasions,carjacking etc and the PC govt is wring it's hands trying to deny it's got anything to do with race,these shits know they can do what they like and scream racism when caught.
you cannot import savages into western society and expert them to integrate into society.

I really like this post because it tells it exactly how it is. These trash have no idea or interest in integrating into a proper society.

We have exactly the same problem in Perth where these Somali refos have been imported into our society at the expense of the Tax payer of course.

Straight on Welfare, free medical, schooling, housing and all sorts of good shit.

They have taken over certain neighbor hoods North of Perth and if ya go there ya think your in some fuking African country not fuking Perth .

We call then " The Skinnies ".

Thank fok they stay North and do not come South to Fremantle.

The Australian Government is truly fuked.

Hi Tel, yeah according to the Aussies who have retired here they paint a similar picture to you , all have family back there mainly in Melbourne and dread for their familys future so its gotta be as you say , I have just found this article which is one of many which confirms what you claim , which some may say that its alarmist , personally talking to my Aussie mates its spot on , problem is today in this PC World the truth is regarded as some sort of hate speech by the "thought police " Africans ?Running Riot? in Melbourne - You may want to read this too http://newobserveronline.com/austral...earn-50000-pa/

Originally Posted by reddog

Leave these savages to it,does not matter how much aid the west gives,it always goes to shit.
Be nice if the OZ govt stopped importing refugees from South Sudan and Somalia as well,the scumbags are running riot in Melbourne,home invasions,carjacking etc and the PC govt is wring it's hands trying to deny it's got anything to do with race,these shits know they can do what they like and scream racism when caught.
you cannot import savages into western society and expert them to integrate into society.

Yeah true , but if you was an Aussie politician and you wrote the same thing in an Australian national newspaper and had it published or said it on National TV just think of the nationwide furore you would cause for merely saying what most politicians think but ain't got the guts to say it !!!.

Since South Sudan achieved independence, demographics changed with South Sudan now with Xtians, tribal religions and a fusion of Xtian and tribal religions in the majority along with a minority of around 10% Muslim.

South Sudan also has most of the oil, while north Sudan has very little, but allows land-locked S.Sudan a pipeline to the Red Sea.

Control of the oil revenues has complicated things.

Previously, disputes were centred around inter-tribal cattle grazing rights as tribes migrated seasonally with their cattle. Cattle raids were common.

Now a greater source of wealth has changed the way the land disputes are handled.

S.Sudan has a number of 'liberation' armies, each looking for power.

Black African Xtian and animist S. Sudanese fighting each other and Muslim groups who are aided by N.Sudan.

Originally Posted by ENT

with a minority of around 10% Muslim.

Originally Posted by ENT

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Good call.

North Sudan's a different story, 97% Muslim.