{"id":4922,"date":"2014-08-21T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:48:54","slug":"ethiopia-now-africas-biggest-refugee-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-now-africas-biggest-refugee-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia now Africa’s biggest refugee host"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA – The spiraling crisis in war-ravaged South Sudan has sent nearly 200,000 refugees into Ethiopia, making it Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country, the United Nations said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At the end of July, Ethiopia was sheltering 629,718 refugees — nearly half of them from South Sudan — while Kenya, which has long been the biggest refugee host on the continent, counted 575,334 registered refugees and asylum seekers, the UN’s refugee agency said.<\/p>\n

“The main factor in the increased numbers is the conflict in South Sudan,” UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n

That conflict, which erupted last December amid a power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar, has left thousands dead and forced 1.59 million people to flee their homes, according to fresh UN numbers…<\/p>\n

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GENEVA – The spiraling crisis in war-ravaged South Sudan has sent nearly 200,000 refugees into Ethiopia, making it Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country, the United Nations said Tuesday. At the end of July, Ethiopia was sheltering 629,718 refugees — nearly half of them from South Sudan — while Kenya, which has long been the biggest refugee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[258,256,4695,4716,1299,3698,257,1219,254,309],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-largest-refugee-hosting-country","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}