GENEVA, Switzerland, June 16, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in South Sudan have undertaken an…
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GENEVA, Switzerland, June 11, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The executive committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) discussed…
BERLIN, Germany, June 8, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Christoph Strässer, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian…
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — STATEMENT BY JOHN KIRBY, SPOKESPERSONThe United States condemns the Government of South…
NEW YORK, June 2, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN…
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 1, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Intense fighting between warring parties in South Sudan has forced hundreds…
28 May 2015 – The Security Council today adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations mission in…
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United States remains deeply concerned about the widespread displacement of civilians…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Director General William Lacy Swing travelled to South Sudan 23–24…
26 May 2015 – Travelling around South Sudan to see efforts made by the United Nations to protect civilians in…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 25, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Residents slowly returning to the South Sudanese town of Leer, in…
24 May 2015 – The United Nations Special Representative for South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Løj, has urged accountability and justice…
22 May 2015 – The escalation of fighting in South Sudan has resulted in “alarming gross violations” of international human…
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…
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…