{"id":21325,"date":"2023-04-24T14:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:25:17","slug":"south-sudan-receives-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan receives about 10,000 refugees fleeing Sudan fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA (Reuters) &#8211;     Around 10,000 refugees have entered South Sudan from Sudan in recent days fleeing fighting between the army and paramilitary forces, officials in South Sudan&#8217;s Renk County said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>About 6,500 crossed the border on Saturday and another 3,000 on Sunday, and more were arriving on Monday, county commissioner Kak Padiet told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The army commander in Renk, Dau Aturjong, said three-quarters of the arrivals are South Sudanese while the rest are Sudanese, Eritrean, Kenyan, Ugandan and Somali.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan hosts 800,000 South Sudanese refugees who have fled long-running conflicts there. South Sudan gained its independence from its northern neighbour in 2011. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the local authorities and local people providing assistance to the new arrivals,&#8221; Aturjong told Reuters. &#8220;Up to now, humanitarian organisations have not intervened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 2 million people are also internally displaced within South Sudan, where civil war from 2013 to 2018 resulted in an estimated 400,000 deaths. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Denis Elamu; Writing by Aaron Ross; Editing by Philippa Fletcher)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/smoke-rises-from-the-tarmac-of-khartoum-international-airport-as-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0AR-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0AR-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/people-flee-clashes-between-the-paramilitary-rapid-support-forces-and\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FK-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FK-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/people-flee-clashes-between-the-paramilitary-rapid-support-forces-and-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FL-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/people-flee-clashes-between-the-paramilitary-rapid-support-forces-and-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FO-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FO-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-sudan-receives-about\/people-flee-clashes-between-the-paramilitary-rapid-support-forces-and-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FM-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0FM-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA (Reuters) &#8211; Around 10,000 refugees have entered South Sudan from Sudan in recent days fleeing fighting between the army and paramilitary forces, officials in South Sudan&#8217;s Renk County said on Monday. 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