REFUGE INFLUX BREAKING UGANDA
By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye The United Nations High Commission for Refuges UNHCR says South Sudan’s refugee crisis is now the world’s fastest growing putting Uganda and region in critical need of help Eight months after fresh violence erupted in South Sudan, a famine produced by the vicious combination of fighting and drought is now driving the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Total displacement from South Sudan into the surrounding region is now 1.6 million people. The rate of new displacement is alarming, representing an impossible burden on a region that is significantly poorer and which is fast running short of resources to cope. Refugees are fleeing into Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic with almost half crossing into Uganda at a rate of 2,000 new arrivals daily. The influx peaked in February at more than 6,000 in a single day, In March, at more than 5,000 with the current daily average of over 2,800 arrivals...