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The World's Toughest Refugee Camp

South Sudan's largest refugee camp has been identified by the United Nations to be the most challenging settlement in the world, with reports of a sharp rise in new arrivals owing to escalating fighting in the South Kordofan region of neighbouring Sudan.

  • South Sudan:   The Toughest Refugee Camp in the World

    Daily Maverick, 20 November 2012

    Yida in South Sudan is considered by the United Nations to be the most challenging refugee camp in the world. Nothing could have prepared SIMON ALLISON for what he saw there. Read more »

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Refugees at the Yida settlement in South Sudan (file photo).

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