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"Lost Boy" among graduates ending Ethiopian exile to help rebuild South Sudan
17 Aug 2007 As peace and stability return to South Sudan, young refugees educated overseas and armed with college degrees are returning to help rebuild their homeland, where years of war have ravaged the economy and infrastructure. -
Report recommends refugee status for Chadians arriving in Darfur
7 Aug 2007 UNHCR and Sudan's Commissioner for Refugees have recommended that thousands of new arrivals from Chad who crossed into Darfur in recent months be recognized as refugees. -
UNHCR teaches Darfur IDPs to help themselves and environment
7 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency is working with internally displaced Sudanese to rehabilitate the environmental degradation that has been both a cause and a consequence of the Darfur conflict. -
Life eases slightly for refugees in corner of Central African Republic
10 Jul 2007 UNHCR and sister agencies are helping to make life more bearable in north-east Central African Republic for more than 2,600 refugees who fled attacks on their homes in Sudan's South Darfur region some seven weeks ago. -
World Refugee Day Q&A: Former Ugandan refugee plans to use Oxford degree to help others
20 Jun 2007 Ugandan Gemma Tracee Apiku, who spent eight years as a refugee in southern Sudan, talks about a recent visit to camps in Uganda for Sudanese refugees. -
World Refugee Day: Guterres lauds Sudan repatriation as a bright spot in the region
19 Jun 2007 High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres joined more than 160 refugees on their return home to South Sudan after years in exile in Uganda. In the region to mark World Refugee Day, he said the repatriation to Sudan was one of the few bright spots in a region that has seen too much displacement. -
Supplies rushed to new Sudanese arrivals in Central African Republic
12 Jun 2007 The UN refugee agency and sister organizations are rushing supplies to 2,650 newly arrived Sudanese refugees living under desperate conditions in north-eastern Central African Republic (CAR). -
UNHCR plans aid for newly arrived Sudanese refugees in Central African Republic
31 May 2007 The UN refugee agency has begun planning the delivery of emergency aid to Sudanese refugees who have crossed into the Central African Republic to escape ground and air attacks on their homes in the Darfur region. -
Some 120,000 Sudanese refugees set to return to Eastern Equatoria
16 May 2007 The UN refugee agency has reached an agreement with Sudan and Uganda to begin the repatriation of some 120,000 Sudanese refugees to Eastern Equatoria state in south Sudan. The programme is expected to start in August.