SOUTH SUDAN: BORN IN WAR, GROWN UP IN WAR, NOW TIME FOR REHABILITATIONRaymond Baguma
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A new report estimates that South Sudan's civil war has caused nearly 400,000 "excess deaths" since fighting erupted in late 2013.
During the more than two decades of civil war of independence from Sudan, the then guerilla-cum-ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) managed to survive factionalism leading to splinter sections and finally won South Sudanese sovereignty from Sudan in 2011. "This has been a lucrative ...
Africa’s longest-running civil war in Sudan ended in 2005 with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). The ceasefire opened the way for an internationally monitored referendum in South Sudan and the deployment of the UN-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). UN Secretary-General Ban...
South Sudan is engulfed in a civil war that began in December 2013, killing tens of thousands displacing millions of others. According to aid organizations operating in the African nation, 6 million people, or half the population of South Sudan, is severely food insecure. ...
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Fighting has broken out in South Sudan two days after the warring sides signed what the government called a "final final" peace agreement to end the civil war. Each side blames the other for the attacks. Clashes erupted Friday morning in Central Equatoria s...
In South Sudan, the world's youngest nation where over six million people are facing starvation, women are on the frontline of the war against hunger. JUBA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Three years ago, Monica Alak, 28, used to spend sleepless nights with hunger and constant cries from her chi...
The attack on Pajok about two weeks sparked the relocation of over 5,000 South Sudanese to Uganda fleeing for safety. Most of them, according to the UN Refugee Agency, are women and children. As the world focused its attention on war in Syria, the children in this part of the world ...
Sexual violence as a widespread and systematic tactic of war continues in South Sudan, reportedly to punish civilians who are perceived to be associated with a particular political or ethnic group, the officials said in a statement. The United Nations has received reports of attackers demanding mone...