Juba — Parties to the Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) signed a new implementation matrix in the South Sudanese capital yesterday, attended by the President of the Sovereignty Council Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan and President of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit. Stephanie Khoury, representative of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), stressed […]
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South Sudan says rival generals in Sudan have agreed “in principle” to a seven-day truce. Meanwhile, clashes in Khartoum have undermined an already existing ceasefire. DW has the latest. The two factions battling for supremacy in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day truce starting May 4, a statement from South Sudan’s foreign ministry in Juba […]
Nairobi — Parliament Should Strengthen Oversight, Further Limit Broad, Unqualified Powers South Sudan’s parliament should revise the pending National Security Service Amendment Bill to bring an end to the agency’s arbitrary arrests and other abusive practices, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The organizations published a joint letter to parliament detailing the bill’s […]
A movement of dozens of African civil society groups call on the AU to take actions in pursuit of climate justice, peace, and equality. We, the members of the African Movement Building Space, believe that the magnitude of the crises we face demands systemic change that results in the creation of sustainable societies and new […]
With International Women’s Day taking place on Wednesday 8 March, access to power, inclusivity and effective participation for women in the implementation of the Revitalised peace agreement remain a challenge. Speaking during a workshop convened by the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring & Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) in collaboration with the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and […]
In a parched landscape, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are in the right place?” asks the driver. “It might not look like […]
As elections loom, extend vital Human Rights Commission mandate To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council 20 February 2024 South Sudan: As elections loom, extend vital Human Rights Commission mandate Excellencies, Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s (“HRC” or “Council”) 55th session (26 February-5 April […]
Twelve years after independence, South Sudan remains extremely poor and underdeveloped. A peace deal brokered in 2018 has failed to end conflict. And the government has failed to engage the people in state reconstruction, leaving the country without genuine and effective institutions of self-government. The country remains trapped in extreme poverty, high levels of corruption, […]
Action is needed now to pave the way for timely and credible elections in South Sudan next December, the UN Special Representative for the country told journalists in the capital, Juba, on Wednesday. “With only 17 months remaining on the Roadmap timelines before elections in 2024, I repeat what I had said in an earlier […]
Since the start of the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces last April, the government stopped paying the salaries of the state institutions’ employees; a decision that impacts all workers in the public sector in Sudan. According to statistics from the Sudanese Ministry of Social Development in 2019, a million […]
A South Sudan minister has set out to eliminate ‘ghost workers’ from public payroll and vowed not to pay out a mountain of claims worth millions of dollars until the invoices are verified. But things do not work like that. Dr Barnaba Bak Chol’s determination to push ahead with the reforms and transformation of South […]
Johannesburg — South Sudan, as the world’s youngest country, faces many challenges and uncertainty in achieving peace. Shortly after gaining independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, a civil war broke out in December 2013, and again in July 2016. Citizens are still feeling the effects of these events while South Sudanese women, activists, and […]