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South Sudan President Salva Kiir Meets Sacked Army Chief Paul Malong

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Meets Sacked Army Chief Paul Malong

South Sudanese have welcomed talks between President Kiir and General Paul Awan Malong, the former chief of general staff of the South Sudan army, the SPLA. The two men held a meeting at the presidential palace last week, after which they announced that differences between them have come to an end. There was a standoff […]

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Reaches Out to Opposition

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Reaches Out to Opposition

South Sudan President Salva Kiir is reaching out to the opposition after intense pressure from the international community to prove that the National Dialogue he initiated last December is real and is capable of saving the country from the escalating violence. President Kiir last Tuesday appointed John Garang’s widow Rebecca Garang and two of her […]

Opposition Groups Say Genocide Is Real, Blames It On South Sudanese Govt

Opposition Groups Say Genocide Is Real, Blames It On South Sudanese Govt

Six South Sudan opposition groups have joined forces and are now calling on the world to recognise that the country has sank into a genocide perpetrated by the government. In a joint statement issued Monday, the six opposition groups said that President Salva Kiir’s regime, with the direct participation of the SPLA army and state-sponsored […]

UN insists on 4,000-strong protection force for South Sudan and meets resistance from President Salva Kiir

UN insists on 4,000-strong protection force for South Sudan and meets resistance from President Salva Kiir

The government of South Sudan is set for a fresh round of diplomatic standoff with the United Nations after the latter ordered the deployment of a 4,000-strong protection force that has been resisted by Juba for the past six months, since authorisation by the Security Council last August. After visiting Juba and meeting with President […]

Six Aid Workers Killed in South Sudan Ambush

Six Aid Workers Killed in South Sudan Ambush

Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying what organisation they worked for. The victims were attacked on Saturday as they travelled from the capital, Juba, to the eastern town of Pibor, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian […]

Security Council and Region Must ‘Speak With One Voice,’ End Suffering in South Sudan – UN Chief

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

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 bandits allegedly crossed into Ethiopia’s Gambella region and killed 28 people before fleeing with 43 children

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 […]

South Sudan government buying arms with oil money while millions face starvation: confidential UN report

South Sudan government buying arms with oil money while millions face starvation: confidential UN report

The government of South Sudan is spending its oil revenue on weapons, even as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba’s military operations, according to a confidential United Nations report. The report by a panel of experts, whose findings were dismissed by South Sudan’s goverment, calls for an arms embargo on the country […]

Women and children being raped and slaughtered as worsening conflict worsens famine threatening millions

Women and children being raped and slaughtered as worsening conflict worsens famine threatening millions

Women and children are being slaughtered in South Sudan by soldiers who said to be using knives for the massacres to save their ammunition. The brutal conflict, sparking UN warnings over ethnic cleansing, is driving a devastating famine that is threatening millions with starvation in the country. One woman who fled violence in the city […]

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