Million flee South Sudan civil war for Uganda

The number of South Sudanese who have fled to Uganda has hit one million, the UN said yesterday.

The civil war has pushed an average of 1,800 South Sudanese into Uganda every day for the past year, according to UNHCR, the UN’S refugee agency.

Another one million have sought refuge elsewhere in the region.

“We still have new arrivals coming, and we cannot really see the end of the arrivals,” said Bik Lum, head of the UNHCR in Arua, northern Uganda.