Antonio Guterres today addressed a UN-backed summit in Uganda that seeks USD 8 billion for nearly a million South Sudanese refugees and the host communities that officials say are near the breaking point.
Guterres has said Uganda last year received three times more refugees from South Sudan than those crossing the central Mediterranean.
He called South Sudan's refugee influx "the biggest exodus of refugees in Africa since the Rwanda genocide" of 1994.
The East African nation now hosts 950,000 people from South Sudan in what has become the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. Most have arrived in the past year.