Sudan: UN refugee chief calls on world leaders to help rebuild shattered lives

Standing underneath a huge shade tree in Yari, south Sudan, António Guterres told villagers that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is doing its best to help with schools and health centres so that people who fled 21 years of civil war between southern rebels and the Khartoum Government can come home and stay home. But more international funds are needed to develop the desperately poor region, he said. He drew a clear link between development aid, economic growth and peace for a long-tortured region where even today landmines still deface the landscape and claim lives.