{"id":345652,"date":"2017-08-17T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345652"},"modified":"2017-08-17T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T11:28:02","slug":"uganda-receives-one-million-south-sudan-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345652","title":{"rendered":"Uganda receives one million South Sudan refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan to Uganda has passed the one million mark, the UN says.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation is appealing to the international community for &#8220;urgent additional support&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that at least another one million refugees have fled to Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan has been wracked by civil war, which has seen numerous atrocities, since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-345653 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/97417310_gettyimages-646254704.jpg\" alt=\"_97417310_gettyimages-646254704\" width=\"722\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In July of that year, President Salva Kiir fired his deputy Riek Machar, and in December accused him of planning a coup &#8211; an allegation he denied. Forces loyal to the two men then started fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s welcoming attitude towards refugees has been praised by the UN and other international organisations. The government, for example, gives South Sudanese a plot of land to build a home and farm.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Uganda received more refugees than any other country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan to Uganda has passed the one million mark, the UN says. The organisation is appealing to the international community for &#8220;urgent additional support&#8221;. It adds that at least another one million refugees have fled to Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[10263,457],"class_list":["post-345652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-south-sudan-refugees","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}