The first UN peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said to have agreed an immediate ceasefire after nearly two weeks of heavy fighting with rebels. Seventy-two members of a police contingent, moved from the…
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27 December 2013 – Some 63,000 civilians have now sought refuge in United Nations bases in South Sudan as the…
The United States on Thursday reaffirmed its vow to cut aid to violence-wracked South Sudan if the government of President Salva Kiir is overthrown in a coup. Troops loyal to Kiir have been battling forces allied to former vice president Riek Machar…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Security Council to boost the capacity of the UN Mission in South…
Amid escalating tensions and deadly clashes between military factions in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in the country today…
The security and humanitarian situations in South Sudan are rapidly deteriorating as a result of the country’s political disputes, the…
26 December 2013 – The United Nations hopes to have peacekeeping reinforcements on the ground in strife-torn South Sudan within…
25 December 2013 – In an appeal broadcast in South Sudan on Wednesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon renewed his call on…
South Africa names CHAN squadHosts South Africa have named a relatively strong 23-man squad for next year’s Orange African Nations…
In the shade of a tree close to the slow waters of the White Nile river, a body killed during the fighting over South Sudan’s town of Bor gathers flies. On the bumpy road towards the heavily fortified compound of the United Nations peacekeepers, another…