South Sudan to be ‘pilot country’ for new UN initiative protecting journalists
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| Scores slain in South Sudan cattle raid The Star Online JUBA, South Sudan: Heavily armed rebels have killed more than 100 people including women and children in a cattle raid in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state, local officials said Sunday. The people of Walgak in Akobo County were migrating north … |
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| Dozens dead, hundreds missing in South Sudan raid CNN International (CNN) — A heavily armed militia attacked tribesmen during a weekend cattle drive in strife-wrackedSouth Sudan, a government official reported Sunday, leaving behind dozens of dead and possibly kidnapping hundreds of others. Unarmed civilians “were … |
| UN Fact-Finding Team to Visit Site of South Sudan Killings New York Times South Sudan, Africa’s newest country, is struggling with a number of serious security issues, including bombing along the border of Sudan, violent protests in some areas and ethnically-driven clashes in others. On Friday, heavily-armed militiamen from … |
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| South Sudan Town Cleans Up Garbage Voice of America BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN — Like most South Sudanese towns, there’s no such thing as a garbage truck in Bentiu, the capital of Unity state, to collect trash from the streets or in front of people’s homes. Nor is there a landfill or a town dump where … |
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| South Sudan: UN Mission En Route to Assess Reports of Deadly Fighting in … AllAfrica.com “The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has received information from local officials from Walgak in west Akobo that an attack took place on Friday, 8 February, in the Manitor area,” Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, told … |
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| South Sudan transforms DDR program to make it attractive to ex-combatants Sudan Tribune February 11, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s government has embarked on transforming the reintegration program into civil society of ex-combatants into sustainable income-generating developmental projects which will cater for their livelihoods outside the … |
| ICRC Facilitates Repatriation of South Sudan Prisoners AllAfrica.com Geneva — Sudan has released five prisoners of war (POWs) from South Sudan and repatriated them to their country in a move facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 11 February. Upon their arrival in Juba, the five ex … |
| Aid agencies face violence in South Sudan Independent Online Juba – Aid agencies working in South Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, are under regular threat from members of the security services who beat or arrest them or commandeer their equipment, the United Nations said on Monday. South Sudan … |
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| South Sudan Rebels Blamed After Scores Killed Voice of America Yau Yau began his rebellion against Juba in 2010 after failing to win a seat in parliament in the Sudanese general elections. He accepted President Salva Kiir’s offer of amnesty following South Sudan’s independence in 2011, but re-launched his … |
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| South Sudan’s Machar calls on religious institutions to promote education Sudan Tribune He said the Muslim community in South Sudan should also play a role in cementing relations between South Sudan and countries in the Arab world and informed the gathering that the new country had already initiated diplomatic relations with many of them. |
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