Statement Monday: Refugee Agencies and Leila Pakkala

statement monday: The future of a generation is truly on the brink, said Leila Pakkala, UNICEF's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, according to Brandon Sun. The horrifying fact that nearly one in five children in South Sudan has been forced to flee their home illustrates how devastating this conflict has been for the country's most vulnerable. Another 1 million South Sudanese children are displaced within the country, having fled their homes due to the civil war, said the U.N.'s child and refugee agencies in a statement Monday. Roughly 62 per cent of refugees from South Sudan are children, according to the U.N. statement, and more than 75,000 children are alone or without their families. No refugee crisis today worries me more than South Sudan, said Valentin Tapsoba, UNHCR's Africa Bureau Director. Roughly 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan in total. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.