UN Sees 70% Shortfall In Aid For South Sudan Refugees
Only 30 percent of $1.4 billion aid needed in 2017 for refugees fleeing the conflict in South Sudan has been ...
Tag: South Sudanese Civil War
US Warns South Sudan Regional Plan Is Last Chance For Peace
The United States warned Thursday that a new regional plan to shore up South Sudan's failing peace agreement was the ...
South Sudan Declares State of Emergency
South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has declared a state of emergency in part of the country’s north-west. The statement, broadcast ...
South Sudan Forces Launch Fresh Offensive Against Rebels
South Sudan government forces have launched an offensive towards a rebel stronghold in the north of the country, the UN ...
South Sudan Cancels Independence Day Events
South Sudan, the world's youngest nation gripped by civil war, has cancelled its official independence day celebrations for the second ...
S.Sudan To Lift Ban On Foreign Journalists
South Sudan's media authority will lift a ban on around 20 foreign journalists who had been refused access to the ...
War Leaves No Winners, Only Rubble In S.Sudan Oil Town
What was once Bentiu, the gateway to South Sudan's oil fields, is now a cluster of bullet-riddled buildings and piles ...
South Sudan Soldiers On Trial Over Rape of Aid Workers
Thirteen South Sudanese soldiers have gone on trial accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering their local colleague. The ...
S.Sudan Troops Tried For Rape, Murder In Juba Compound Attack
A South Sudan military court on Tuesday opened the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers and ...
Kiir Opens S.Sudan Dialogue With Unilateral Ceasefire
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir declared a unilateral ceasefire Monday as he launched a national dialogue, a controversial bid to ...
Sacked South Sudan Army Chief Returns To Juba
Sacked South Sudanese army chief Paul Malong, returned to the capital Juba on Saturday claiming he had been asked to ...
President Seeks To Assert South Sudan Authority After Sacking Army…
South Sudan's president insisted Friday that the security situation was "normal" and that people had no reason to worry, three ...
South Sudan’s Kiir Replaces Army Chief Paul Malong
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed Paul Malong, the war-torn country's powerful army chief of staff. Malong was sacked ...
South Sudan President Sacks Controversial Army Chief
South Sudan President Salva Kiir sacked his powerful, hardline army chief Paul Malong on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. General ...
One Million Child Refugees
Over two million children displaced following South Sudan civil war More than one million children have fled South Sudan because ...
UN Force Condemns ‘callous’ Attack On South Sudan Base
The UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan said Thursday it had repelled a "callous" attack by armed assailants on a ...
Britain Sending 400 Troops To Join UN’s S.Sudan Force
About 400 British soldiers will join the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan in the next weeks in one of ...
UN Calls For Halt To South Sudan Fighting
The United Nations on Saturday called for a halt to fighting in South Sudan after the government launched a new ...
Sixty Aid Workers Forced To Flee S.Sudan Fighting
A surge of fighting in eastern South Sudan has forced 60 aid workers to flee, the UN humanitarian agency said ...
UK Says South Sudan Violence Amounts To ‘genocide’
Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain's International Development Minister ...