Medecins Sans Frontieres says more than 30,000 new refugees in South Sudan need a place to go.
Nightmare Scenario Looms In South Sudan, Aid Groups Warn -- CNN
(CNN) -- In a few weeks, South Sudan will turn a year old. It ought to have been a joyous occasion.
Instead, the world's newest nation is coping with a massive humanitarian crisis wrought by fighting between the armed forces of its nemesis to the north and an affiliate rebel movement.
The fighting is hardly new. For decades before South Sudan's independence in July, civil war raged over territory, oil and religion. Now, aid groups warn that another nightmare looms as millions of people are on the move, desperate to flee fighting and find a safer place to live.
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Update: Violence and Hunger Driving Tens of Thousands into Refugee Camps in South Sudan; International Medical Corps Teams Seeing Alarming Rates of Malnutrition, Especially Among Children -- Alertnet
My Comment: The populations that are impacted by this conflict are reaching the conclusion that peace is not going to happen .... hence the refugee crisis.
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