Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) announced that 5,400 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Al Leri Locality in South Kordofan State in September 2015.

According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the new arrivals are in need of humanitarian assistance including food and emergency shelter.

OCHA said in its weekly Sudan bulletin that most of the newly arrived refugees are women and children who have taken refuge with the existing South Sudanese community; others have sought shelter at the nearby gold mine.

The humanitarian commission and local authorities said they have distributed initial food supplies to the new arrivals, however, these are not expected to last long as they are being shared with the older refugee population.

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