The UN Refugee agency has warned that nearly one million refugees from South Sudan are living in dire condition in displacement camps in neighboring countries.

It says there are already some 930,000 refugees in the region, and more are arriving daily.

UNHCR said more than 8,000 people were fleeing in one day to neighboring countries after the outbreak on conflict last month in Juba

It said ninety percent of them were women and children.

The UN body warned that with refugees fleeing South Sudan in their thousands, surrounding countries are critically underfunded.

It said despite setting up a new 100,000-capacity camp at Yumbe, in northern Uganda, it urgently needs more money to accommodate nearly one million South Sudanese refugees in six countries in the region.

This includes some 1.6 million people internally displaced by the recent conflict.