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Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan by Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for OCHA, on behalf of Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for ...
As the country marks two years of war this week, the question that looms large is whether hope for a democratic future still ...
Volatility is mounting amid reports of renewed mobilisation by the White Army militia and South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) in Upper Nile state, the alleged recruitment of children ...
South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed ... the scene of the fighting in Upper Nile state, came under fire.
Yet, no one discounts that armies – strong and effective ones, are the most potent tool in state building. The natural question to ask then is; why does the UPDF deploy to South Sudan?
Leer County is one of the areas hardest hit by the conflict that has ravaged South Sudan. When civil war erupted in 2013, persistent violence and insecurity forced the withdrawal of judges from Unity ...
In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded and formed a new state: the Republic of South Sudan. The dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir defined Sudan’s post-colonial period. Bashir seized ...
Escalating clashes in South Sudan have killed almost 200 people and displaced an estimated 125,000 more since March, the United Nations(UN) said on Tuesday. Tensions have increased over attacks in the ...
The vast state, which spans 493,000 sq km, over a quarter of Sudan’s territory, borders Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan. Each of these countries has major internal ...
The fact that the local government is not functioning is a genuine case to declare a state of emergency in Osun ... Recently the president assented to the South West Development Commission ...
Chile's Senate Tuesday passed a bill to extend the current state of emergency in La Araucanía ... a territorial dispute some 700 kilometers south of Santiago for decades between the State ...