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 CTV. 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 UN's child and refugee agencies in a statement Monday. The civil war has worsened South Sudan's ethnic divisions and UN officials have said parts of the country is experiencing ethnic cleansing and is at risk of genocide. Roughly 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan in total. Roughly 62 per cent of refugees from South Sudan are children, according to the UN statement, and more than 75,000 children are alone or without their families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.