BY DENIS DUMO | REUTERS At least 45 people have died in fighting between ethnic groups in South Sudan’s northern state of Western Lakes, a local official said, in a new source of violence in a country already devastated by a four-year civil war.
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Arms Embargo Warnings, Punitive Actions Counterproductive to Peace Process, Permanent Representative Stresses By United Nations, Expressing deep concern at the security situation in South Sudan and the possibility of an outright ethnic war, the Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to 15 December 2017, strengthening […]
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By Reuters, United Nations peacekeepers failed to respond to an attack on civilians by South Sudanese government troops at the Hotel Terrain in the capital Juba in July, less than a mile from a U.N. compound, a U.N. inquiry found on Tuesday. “During the attack, civilians were subjected to and witnessed gross human rights violations, […]
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By VOA News, The United States does not believe Riek Machar, South Sudan’s former first vice president, should return to his government position, given continuing instability in the country, Washington’s special envoy for South Sudan said Wednesday. Nearly three years ago, political rivalry between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and Machar, a […]
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By VOA News, Facing intense international pressure, war-ravaged South Sudan on Sunday agreed to the deployment of a 4,000-member regional protection force approved last month by the United Nations Security Council. Sunday’s decision by President Salva Kiir, who in August rejected more peacekeepers, came a day after the 15-member Security Council visited the capital, Juba, […]
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By TesfaNews, South Sudan’s former vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar has left the country for a neighbouring state, opposition officials said, several weeks after he withdrew from the capital Juba during fierce fighting with government troops. Spokesman James Gatdet Dak on Thursday declined to disclose Machar’s whereabouts. A statement issued by the leadership […]
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By Al Jazeera, The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of an additional 4,000-strong peacekeeping force in South Sudan, after recent fighting threatened to send the country back to all-out civil war. In response to the vote on Friday, a spokesman for President Salva Kiir said the government would not accept the UN’s decision […]
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By Al Jazeera, South Sudan marked the fifth year of its creation with violence and death, teetering on the edge of collapse and humanitarian disaster. This latest bout killed hundreds, displaced thousands and has put into question the fate of the government and the role of the United Nations there.
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