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YIDA - 17 Oct 2012

1200 unaccompanied children among Yida refugees

Yida camp in Unity state of South Sudan hosts more than a thousand refugee children from South Kordofan who are without families. Some of them are living in the camp streets and feeding from leftovers.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Rania Babikir the social welfare coordinator in Yida camp said that the last count of the number of homeless children reached  1200 children who are between the ages of 7 to 15 years old. Babiker added that the majority of children are from counties of Kadugli and Buram, attributing their condition to war and poverty experienced by the state of South Kordofan after explosion of the conflict there in June last year.

Babiker also elaborated that the children who are on the streets today are there because their families are stranded in the mountains to the north and others are displaced. She added that organizations in Yida are using children to carry water from long distances which she thinks is contrary to child law.

Photo by Radio Tamazuj: Homeless children in Yida camp, 17 October 2012