Security Council and Region Must ‘Speak With One Voice,’ End Suffering in South Sudan – UN Chief
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today stressed the need for the leadership of South Sudan to achieve an immediate cessation of hostilities, restore the peace process and ensure unrestricted humanitarian access in order to pull the world’s youngest country back from the abyss, and back from a widening famine. “All the optimism that accompanied the […]
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Is Ignoring Famine – UN Chief
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has accused South Sudan’s government of ignoring the plight of 100,000 people suffering from famine , 7.5 million in need of humanitarian aid and thousands more fleeing fighting. Guterres’ rebuke was delivered to the country’s president, Salva Kiir , on Thursday, mentioning “a refusal by the leadership to even acknowledge […]
South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea Begin ‘Deep and Lasting Collaboration’ on Oil and Gas
South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea announced an historic partnership today in Juba, setting out the terms for a strong bilateral relationship between the African oil and gas producers. The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed by Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima and South Sudan’s Minister of Petroleum H.E. Ezekiel […]
Govt soldiers locked more than 50 men into a shipping container in South Sudan. All but one boy died
The 13-year-old boy sits on a mat in a darkened hut not far from Leer Town in South Sudan, his skeletal knees pressed against his ears, and tells the story of what happened to him and more than 50 other men one day late last year. That morning—he wasn’t sure if it was Oct. 22 […]
South Sudan Wants Rebel Leader Riek Machar Declared a Terrorist
South Sudan government has urged the regional states to consider rebel leader Riek Machar as a terrorist following the kidnapping of two Indian aid workers in his Upper Nile stronghold. Information minister Michael Makuei told the media in Juba that the captors were Dr Machar loyalists and were demanding $1 million ransom from the government. […]
South Sudan bandits allegedly crossed into Ethiopia’s Gambella region and killed 28 people before fleeing with 43 children
More than 1,000 gunmen from South Sudan have killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighbouring Ethiopia, according to a government official. Chol Chany, a regional government spokesman, said on Wednesday the raids occurred on Sunday and Monday in Gambella region’s Gog and Jor areas, which border South Sudan’s Boma region. “Murle bandits carried […]
Japan Makes Us$8.4 Million Contribution to WFP for Emergency Needs in South Sudan
Japan has allocated approximately US$7.4 million to the emergency operation in response to the famine in the country. WFP will use the funds to purchase more than 24,000 bags of sorghum, a staple food in South Sudan, which will ensure provision of food assistance to more than 17,000 people for three months. In addition, the […]
South Sudan Should End Its Repressive Practices
Five years after independence, South Sudan is mired in a highly abusive and increasingly complex civil war that does not appear set to end soon despite earlier signs that the fragile 2015 peace agreement might hold. Instead, the government has continued to allow its forces to carry out serious abuses during operations across the country. […]
South Sudan Now World’s Fastest Growing Refugee Crisis – UN Refugee
The number of South Sudanese fleeing their homes is “alarming,” the United Nations refugee agency today said, announcing that 1.6 million people have either been displaced or fled to neighbouring countries in the past eight months ago. “A famine produced by the vicious combination of fighting and drought is now driving the world’s fastest growing […]
Actor George Clooney Blames South Sudan Famine On Nation’s Elite
Famine in South Sudan could be brought to an end if world leaders would step in and keep local politicians from fighting over and wasting funds that could help feed the starving nation, actor George Clooney said in a newspaper opinion piece on Thursday. Describing the famine as “government-made,” Clooney said South Sudan’s political elite […]
