South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday night issued several decrees reinstructing the army, renaming the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) to 'South Sudan Defence Force (SSDF).' In a decree read out on the state-owned television (SSBC), Kiir reinstated Maj. Gen. Dau Aturjong Nyuol into active military...
This is a step in the right direction. Let us hope and pray that peace eventuates from this conference. Norway will in June host a reconciliation conference between the South Sudanese government and armed opposition leaders, the Norwegian government envoy Erlen Skogonsberg said on Saturday. Skogonsberg told...
Since hostilities broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, the world has witnessed a continuing downward spiral by the world's newest nation, until they are now facing out of control inflation, massive displacing of the civilian population and now famine. In response to the famine, DOHA raised funds for a...
More than 31,000 South Sudanese refugees - mostly women and children - have crossed the border into Sudan this year, fleeing famine and conflict, the United Nations refugee agency says. The United Nations declared famine last week in parts of South Sudan's Unity State, with about...
The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, said on Thursday that improved security is essential to reinvigorating the bread basket of South Sudan. Shearer made these remarks during his first field visit to the town of Yambio in Gbudue State...
A famine has been declared in parts of violence-plagued South Sudan, where about 100,000 people are facing starvation, three UN agencies say. 'Famine is currently affecting parts of Unity State in the northern-central part of the country. A formal famine declaration means people have already started...
South Sudan - Once a symbol of peaceful coexistence between South Sudanese from different origins, Central Equatoria, on the southern border of South Sudan has become a scene of a massive exodus of the local population towards neighbouring Uganda. Thousands of civilians have fled, and continue...