Busia — The number of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda hit 1-million on Thursday, the UN said, as hundreds of desperate families pour across the border every day seeking a haven from the civil war. The conflict in South Sudan has created Africa’s biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but UN agencies are receiving a fraction of the cash they need to provide food and shelter. Yet the crowds keep flowing across rickety wooden bridges near the north-western Ugandan border town of Busia, staggering under the weight of babies and a few pots or bundles of clothing balanced on their heads. Women and children make up more than 85% of the arrivals. "Two weeks ago my husband’s uncle was killed," said Stella Taji, as she trudged barefoot over the bridge, a toddler clinging to her hand. "Since then we’ve been hiding in the bush. We have nothing." Oil-rich South Sudan became the world’s youngest nation in 2011, on its independence from neighbouring Sudan, but the elation soon e...
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