KHARTOUM, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- About 182,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Sudan in 2017, according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday.
"Almost 460,000 South Sudanese refugees, fleeing hunger and violence in South Sudan, have arrived in Sudan since December 2013. About 182,000 refugees arrived in 2017 so far. The majority of new arrivals are women and children," said OCHA in its most recent report obtained by Xinhua Thursday.
It further explained that the refugee influx into Sudan's South Darfur continues with approximately 241 South Sudanese refugees arriving in the state every day.
The UN earlier indicated that 7.5 million out of over 12.5 people in South Sudan were in need of humanitarian assistance, with more than 4.9 million people suffering from food insecurity, displacement, dispute and economic deterioration.
With the continued security issues in South Sudan and the famine which affects large areas in the new-born state, new influxes of South Sudanese refugees are expected to arrive in Sudan.
Sudan hosts the South Sudanese refugees in many camps distributed in four states including the White Nile, South Kordofan, East Darfur and Khartoum states.
In Aug. 15 last year, Sudan officially decided to treat the South Sudanese fleeing the war in their country as refugees, which opens the door for the UN to provide them with aid and fund aid programs.
