New Fighting Sends Surge of Refugees to Sudan's Border Region

Fighting in the war-torn Nuba mountains in Sudan has led to an increase in the number of Sudanese refugees fleeing to South Sudan in the last month. In addition to an estimated 1.4 million internally displaced people, South Sudan is also now home to around 250,000 Sudanese. Yida camp in South Sudan's Unity State, one of the country's biggest refugee settlements, now shelters more than 80-thousand refugees. Everyone in Yida fled from a single conflict across the border in...

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