Ethiopia Faces Wave of Refugees From South Sudan, Warns UN Relief Official

23 July 2014

South Sudan is the most rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the world today, according to a senior United Nations relief operations official who made an urgent appeal for desperately-needed funding for Ethiopia, which hosts 180,000 mostly women and children South Sudanese refugees.

John Ging, Operations Director for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), just back from Ethiopia, told a news conference at UN Headquarters today: "This is a manmade problem - the result of a political disagreement between two powerful individuals. It is tragic to see this happening in the world's youngest country, whose independence we were so recently celebrating."

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