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Over 3,000 South Sudanese families flee violence to Sudan's border state

Xinhua, July 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Approximately 3,000 South Sudanese families fled the violence in their country towards Sudan's White Nile State, official SUNA news agency reported Monday.

"The number of families arriving from South Sudan to the White Nile State waiting stations amounted to 3,197 families, from June 1 until last Saturday," SUNA quoted Osama Osman, Executive Director of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS), as saying.

He elaborated that the total number of South Sudanese refugees in Sudan's White Nile State reached 84,000.

He said that the SRCS in cooperation with the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission provide food, shelter and other services to the refugees.

Arrivals of South Sudanese refugees increased since June when the WFP registered the entry of 9,200 South Sudanese refugees to the Kharasana area in West Kordofan State.

The UNHCR said in June that the fighting in South Sudan's Unity and Upper Nile States displaced over 100,000 individuals during the last two months.

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese citizens fled to Sudan since violent clashes erupted in December 2013 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and defectors led by his former deputy Riek Machar. Endit