A South Sudan unification deal signed earlier this month in Cairo shows promise in ending the nation’s conflict and humanitarian crisis, but it’s already hitting snags on implementation when it comes to rebuilding the SPLM party split by President Salva Kiir loyalists and exiled opposition leader Riek Machar. Nhial Deng…
Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, was rushed from a refugee camp in South Sudan after protests broke out and a humanitarian aid office was looted during her visit. Haley, on a three-nation tour in Africa, was evacuated from the camp safely. Images shared by Radio…
The United Nations Security Council should apply sanctions to nine leaders in South Sudan, including President Salva Kiir and exiled rebel leader Riek Machar, the Human Rights Watch organization argued in a new report on conflict-related atrocities released Tuesday. “Salva Kiir, former Vice President Riek Machar, former army chief of…
Parts of South Sudan have been placed under a state of emergency declared by President Salva Kiir on Monday night, although he did not give clear reasons for the sudden decision. The state of emergency is in effect for three months in Gogrial, and parts of Tonj, Wau and Aweil…
South Sudan has marked its July 9 anniversary of independence, but with no formal observances in a land with far too little to celebrate. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said at least 25 humanitarian aid workers from different organizations were evacuated from the Pagak region, a…
A spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) has called on the United Nations to investigate the activities of the UN mandate in South Sudan, while charging the UN with supporting South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his government. In a statement issued by SPLA-IO spokesman William Gatjliath Deng,…
United Nations experts have asked Kenya and South Sudan to provide information about two South Sudanese men abducted from the streets of Nairobi three weeks ago. Dong Samuel Luak, a South Sudanese refugee and human rights advocate seen in the left photo, was in downtown Nairobi heading to catch a…
Officials say that 2 million South Sudan Pounds (SSP) were stolen from the Council of States, the upper house of South Sudan’s national assembly, over the weekend. That’s more than USD$300,000. The speaker of the assembly, Joseph Bol Chan, told the Sudan Tribune that the theft from an office occurred on Sunday….
The head of the commission responsible for overseeing South Sudan’s peace and political agreements said Wednesday that he is dismayed by escalating conflict that prevents their implementation, while exacting a heavy toll in humanitarian terms. “Over the past three months there have been increasing reports of targeted and revenge killings,…
Kenya is again being accused of kidnapping South Sudanese opposition leaders critical of Salva Kiir’s leadership, a senior SPLM-IO official tells the independent South Sudan News Agency. According to the Nairobi-based outlet, Dong Samuel Luak was taken Monday evening from his home by people who identified themselves as Kenyan police…
A spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) said government forces have launched new attacks in Eastern Equatoria state, where South Sudanese forces are accusing civilians of being rebels or their supporters. Colonel William Gatjiath Deng, the official spokesperson for the SPLA-IO, said in a statement that surprise…
The dire situation in South Sudan is setting the stage for a genocide like that of Rwanda, a United Nations commission member warns, and the international community is obligated to prevent it. “There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan using starvation,…
A spokesman for United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has stressed the importance of Kenya’s role in South Sudan, while defending the UN report that resulted in Kenya’s swift and unusually strong decision to withdraw more than 1,000 troops from the UNMISS peacekeeping mission. “We have not been officially appraised…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon plans to implement new measures for the United States Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), designed to ensure greater accountability and better protect South Sudanese civilians. The UN decision follows an independent investigation of the violence that spanned days marked by chaos in and around the…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has appealed to South Sudan to investigate both this month’s attacks on Dinka civilians and retaliatory threats now being made against tribal groups from Equatorian states. In the two weeks since the attacks, messages warning Equatorians to leave or be eliminated were…