Addis Ababa — Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on the Sudanese waring parties to come to the peace alternative by taking lessons from Ethiopia’s peace agreement. PM Abiy disclosed this today in a message he delivered at an event organized to honor those who have contributed to the Pretoria Peace agreement under the theme: […]
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As many as 60 people have been killed since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15. Since the fighting started, the two forces have released differing accounts of who fired the first shot. The RSF claims that the Army carried out a series of surprise […]
One person was killed on Sunday and four others injured after a building collapsed in Kampala. The ill fated building is a commercial structure that houses a popular South Sudanese eatery called Loi-Lung Restaurant in Kansanga, near Kampala International University, opposite Palm village shopping mall along Kansanga Ggaba Road in Makindye division. According to police, […]
Authorities have reportedly managed to locate the site where a plane carrying President Salva Kiir Mayardit crashed in 1993, and recovered his passport. The travel document, along with those belonging to other passengers who were on board the plane that crashed in Torongo, Baringo County in 1993, had been safely kept by a family that […]
Juba — The shooting deaths of two drivers with the U.N.’s World Food Program in South Sudan last week underscored the country’s status as one of the deadliest for aid workers. But aid workers say help is needed now more than ever as the World Bank estimates more than 9 million people will need assistance […]
Humanitarians have strongly condemned the latest deadly assault on aid workers in South Sudan, urging the Government to step up security and bring those responsible to justice. The appeal comes after a convoy of more than 100 trucks transporting food and other assistance was ambushed on Friday in Jonglei state. Two contracted drivers were shot, […]
Violence against civilians in South Sudan rose by two per cent during 2022, according to the latest annual report on Violence Affecting Civilians from the UN peacekeeping mission there, UNMISS. Overall levels of documented violent incidents rose by 27 per cent, from 714 recorded acts of violence in 2021, to 982 last year. 2022 was […]
Khartoum — The President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan and President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit attended today the ceremony of the signing by the Sudanese government and the peace parties of updated matrix of the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan today in the Freedom Hall […]
The government of Kenya on Thursday, February 10, denied claims that it has encroached South Sudan’s territory arguing that it respects the boundaries of its neighbors. This was after it emerged that South Sudan summoned Kenya’s envoy to Juba, Samuel Nandwa, to protest an alleged encroachment on its territory. Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, Dr […]
Harare — South Sudan has accused Kenya of stealing its land, setting the stage for a border dispute that may stymie trade between the two countries, reports Business Daily. The South Sudanese government then summoned Kenya’s envoy to Juba, Samwel Nandwa, to protest the alleged infringement on its territory. According to South Sudan’s Ministry of […]
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South Sudan Holding Six Journalists
Juba — South Sudan’s national security service has detained six journalists who work for the country’s national broadcaster, SSBC, the country’s press union said. Patrick Oyet, who heads the Union of Journalists of South Sudan, said five journalists were detained Tuesday and one on Wednesday. The arrest appears to be connected to a video of […]
Nairobi — South Sudanese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release all journalists detained this week and ensure the press can work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On Tuesday, January 3, agents with the National Security Service detained six journalists with the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, according to multiple media reports and […]
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East Africa: South Sudan Drowns in War
The new President of Kenya, William Ruto (PhD), revealed on the eve of this year’s Christmas, December 24, 2022, how his government is deeply concerned about the recent escalation of hostilities in South Sudan, a nation with which Kenya shares a narrow border compared to other neighbors. Ruto’s statement referred to his country as a […]
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said that armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their homes. According to OCHA, armed men from Jonglei state, an eastern region beset by gun violence, attacked communities in nearby Greater Pibor […]
Juba, South Sudan — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, or UNOCHA, says an estimated 30,000 people from South Sudan’s Greater Pibor Administrative Area have fled their homes in the face of the recent inter-ethnic violence. The clashes involving members of the Murle and Nuer communities have left close to 60 […]
Juba — President of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit on Tuesday received the Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Gem Mohamd Hamdan Daglo in the presence of the Presidential Advisor, Tut Gatluak. The closed-door meeting discussed bilateral relations and ways of strengthening them in all fields in addition to issues of common security issues […]
Washington, DC/Juba — The government of South Sudan has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to reverse an arms embargo that was imposed by the UN Security Council in July 2018, an official at the South Sudan embassy in Washington, DC, with full knowledge of the matter and who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized […]
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths released from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) on Thursday, $14 million for direct assistance to 262,521 South Sudanese affected by increased violence and severe flooding. Interconnected shocks have had a devastating impact on the most vulnerable, said the UN humanitarian office, OCHA. “This funding will support reducing people’s vulnerability […]