A surge of fighting in eastern South Sudan has forced 60 aid workers to flee, the UN humanitarian agency said Saturday, hurting efforts to help civilians in the famine-hit nation. An increase in violence nationwide has seen thousands flee in the past two weeks, including more than 16,000 from the second-largest city of Wau — … Read more
Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan’s civil war amount to “genocide”, according to Britain’s International Development Minister Priti Patel. “It’s tribal, it’s absolutely tribal, so on that basis it’s genocide,” Patel told reporters in Uganda on Wednesday, according to a ministry press officer travelling with her. Patel was returning from a visit … Read more
He said they were taking revenge after a military defeat A rebel official in South Sudan and a Roman Catholic priest say a number of people have been killed in the town of Wau because of their ethnicity. The rebel,Dominic Ukello, told the BBC that government troops and an allied militia were targeting members of … Read more
Deadly fighting erupted, with civilians killed along ethnic lines and thousands displaced in clashes Monday between government forces and rebels in South Sudan’s second-largest city of Wau, witnesses and priests said. At least 2,000 people sought shelter in a Catholic church, and many reported targeted killings against civilians by government troops, according to local priest … Read more
All passengers and crew survived a plane crash in South Sudan on Monday in which the jet hit a fire truck on the runway before bursting into flames. “There is no one who died,” Bona Gaudensio, information minister in the northwestern state of Wau where the accident happened, said on Tuesday. He said 37 people … Read more
A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan’s north-western city of Wau on Monday, leaving at least 14 people injured, government and airport officials said. “The weather is not good. Visibility was not good up to now and (the plane) was landing from the east to west then it just crashed (off) the … Read more