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9 August 2018 by AFP
South Sudan president pardons rival, rebels: state radio South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has issued a decree offering a blanket amnesty to rebels, including his bitter rival Riek Machar, state radio reported Thursday. The announcement comes days after the two men signed a power-shari [...]
6 August 2018 by AFP
South Sudan foes sign final power-sharing deal South Sudanese arch-foes signed a final power-sharing deal Sunday as President Salva Kiir called for unity in a country torn by a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people. Kiir and his bitter rival Riek Machar were in [...]
20 June 2018 by AFP
War-ravaged South Sudan at a glance South Sudan, the world's newest country, has been mired in a devastating civil war for more than four years, with tens of thousands of people killed, nearly four million displaced and its economy in ruins. War broke out when Presi [...]
23 May 2018 by Eden Matiyas
The challenges of reintegrating child soldiers in South Sudan  One of the most troubling trends of the armed conflict in South Sudan is the use of children as soldiers. South Sudan is among the ten countries with the highest number of child soldiers in the world. Yet political efforts to dis [...]
14 March 2018 by Julia Crawford
NGOs on the frontline of South Sudan’s forgotten war As the United Nations Human Rights Council this week heard a new report on abuses in South Sudan, we look at how two Swiss non-governmental groups are working against the odds to help alleviate the suffering of the population. On [...]
23 February 2018 by AFP
UN wants prosecutions for S,Sudan war crimes A UN rights commission in South Sudan said Friday there was sufficient evidence to charge at least 41 senior officers and officials with war crimes and crimes against humanity. South Sudan's four-year-old civil war has been charac [...]
19 December 2017 by Human Rights Watch
South Sudan: Stop Delays on Hybrid Court, says HRW  South Sudan’s top officials have failed to make good on promises to establish an African Union-South Sudanese hybrid court to try international crimes committed during the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. Four [...]
21 July 2017 by AFP
S. Sudan judge orders rape victims to appear at trial Aid workers that were raped during an attack on their compound in South Sudan must testify in-person against a group of soldiers on trial for the assault, a judge ruled Friday. The decision is the latest frustration for victims of [...]
19 July 2017 by AFP
S.Sudan clashes force patients, doctors to flee hospital Thouk Reath, 19, was recovering from a leg amputation after being shot in fighting in northeastern South Sudan when the clinic he was in had to be evacuated because of approaching gunfire. Patients and doctors at the clinic in the [...]
10 April 2017 by AFP
Deadly fighting erupts in S.Sudan's second city: witnesses 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 2,0 [...]
21 February 2017 by AFP
South Sudan: five things to know South Sudan, where the government on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, is mired in an economic crisis due to a devastating civil war.Independent since 2011, the world's newest country was engulfed by civil war i [...]
20 February 2017 by The Conversation
Lessons from The Gambia to end the impasse in South Sudan Not for the first time, South Sudan appears on the International Crisis Group watch list of the world’s most volatile conflicts to watch. This is on top of climbing to second on Transparency International’s index of the most corru [...]
10 February 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Can the African Union save South Sudan? Two years after independence in 2011, South Sudan descended into a war which continues to rage, with analysts fearing a possible genocide. In January alone, more than 52,000 South Sudanese fled to Uganda as continued fighting risk [...]
28 December 2016 by AFP
Sudan lawmakers vote to bring back PM post Sudanese lawmakers voted Wednesday to bring back the post of prime minister, a position abolished after President Omar al-Bashir came to power in a 1989 Islamist-backed coup. The move to delegate limited powers to a prime minister [...]
16 December 2016 by AFP
South Sudan opposition welcomes dialogue move South Sudan's opposition on Friday welcomed President Salva Kiir's call for "national dialogue" to restore peace after three years of civil war, but said the veteran leader could not lead the process.  Ex-vice president Riek Macha [...]
8 December 2016 by Vony Rambolamanana, Geneva
“The UN Security Council should do more to protect the population of South Sudan.” The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng has made various worrying statements this month of November. A few days ago, he has warned about the ethnic violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and reminded [...]
23 November 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
UN struggles to act as South Sudan conflict continues After a long debate last week, the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on action in the face of continuing massive abuses against civilians in South Sudan. A proposal supported by Washington and its Western allies on a [...]
13 October 2016 by Obi Anyadike, IRIN
South Sudan's never ending war South Sudan’s conflict has entered a new, more dangerous phase. While there has been no new fighting in the capital, Juba, since a splurge of violence in July, rebellion is spreading across the country. In its wake, refugees are f [...]
21 September 2016 by AFP
Sudan says hosting 400,000 S.Sudan refugees Sudan said Wednesday it is hosting about 400,000 South Sudanese refugees who fled a brutal civil war that erupted in the world's youngest country after it broke away in 2011. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and more t [...]