22 May 2015 – The escalation of fighting in South Sudan has resulted in “alarming gross violations” of international human…
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NEW YORK, May 21, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the May…
20 May 2015 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has said today that it is deeply concerned…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 18, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The ICRC fears that tens of thousands of civilians forced to…
18 May 2015 – Gravely concerned at the ongoing violence in South Sudan, the Security Council has condemned both the…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned South Sudan’s warring factions Monday against walking away from ceasefire agreements and recently agreed peace talks, saying the implications of such a move would be “serious”. “Let me make clear: if there is…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of a risk of genocide in South Sudan if the country’s four-month-old civil war is not stopped. “There are very disturbing leading indicators of the kind of ethnic, tribal, targeted nationalistic killings…
Rebel gunmen in South Sudan massacred “hundreds” of civilians in ethnic killings when they captured the oil town of Bentiu last week, the UN said Monday, one of the worst reported atrocities in the war-torn nation. In the main mosque alone, “more than…
Over 100 people have been killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan’s Warrap state, a local information minister told UN radio, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. “We lost about 28 civilians” in a remote cattle herders’ camp in the remote northern…
Like many 13 year-olds, Gach Chuol is timid, shyly looking down at the ground as he speaks to a stranger. But he is also joining South Sudan’s war to avenge the death of his parents, and brandishes an AK-47 assault rifle as he recalls why he traded…