United Nations Warns: New Mass Displacement Threatens South Sudan

The United Nations announced that the year 2025 witnessed a massive wave of displacement from South Sudan, with nearly 300,000 people forced to leave the country amid renewed tensions between supporters of President Salva Kiir and those of his former deputy Riek Machar, who is facing trial on charges related to crimes against humanity.

The UN report indicated that this displacement reflects the severity of the security situation and recalls the years of civil war that erupted in 2013 and lasted until 2018, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Most of the fleeing individuals headed to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda, while others sought refuge in Congo and Kenya, as hundreds of thousands were displaced internally. Humanitarian organizations fear that the continuation of fighting could lead to the collapse of the fragile peace agreement signed seven years ago.

Although South Sudan already hosts hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing the war in their country, the escalation of the internal crisis poses dual humanitarian challenges for the state, which could undermine the fragile stability achieved over the past years.