HIGHLIGHTS
The current number of arrivals in South Sudan is now reported at 199,608. During the last three weeks, 4,720 new arrivals were identified countrywide.
UNHCR’s individual bio-metric registration is on-going in the White Nile State. Five sites have been completed and currently the last two sites are being covered, namely El Redis II and Um Sangor. The exercise in El Redis I was completed on 19 January. By 31 January, 62,108 arrivals have been individually registered.
On 13 - 14 January, UNHCR Representative Mohammed Adar attended a handing over ceremony of projects completed as part of the UNHCR High Commissioner’s initiative to support host communities in White Nile State. The handover ceremony was attended by Federal and State level representatives, including the Federal Minister of Social Welfare (MOSA), Governor of White Nile State, Humanitarian Aid Commissioner General, Federal Commissioner of Refugees, State Minister of Health, Sudanese Red Crescent Secretary General, the Deputy Secretary General of Zakat Chamber, among other officials. The projects amounted to a total of USD 4.6 million, which helped construct and rehabilitate facilities that supported both the host community and South Sudanese arrivals.
KEY FIGURES
199,608 South Sudanese arrivals that have arrived in Sudan since 15 December 2013.
* This figure does not include a number of newly arrived South Sudanese living with host communities. These statistics will be determined following individual registration in host communities.
129,135 South Sudanese new arrivals who received emergency shelter and/or NFI assistance since December 2013.
PRIORITIES
Completion of individual registration in While Nile State.
Establishment of new sites in White Nile State to address congestion at existing sites.
Emergency response to recent new arrivals in West Kordofan and White Nile states.