South Sudan: UN official urges to lift taxes halting aid
Apr 30, 2024, at 10:34 pm
The UN’s top humanitarian official in South Sudan has urged the government to lift newly imposed taxes and charges that are causing aid deliveries to be suspended, affecting tens of thousands of people.
Looming hunger emergency for South Sudanese families fleeing war
Oct 04, 2023, at 08:41 pm
A hunger emergency is looming for scores of South Sudanese families fleeing the war in Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday.
South Sudan: Key electoral questions ‘remain unanswered’
Sep 16, 2023, at 06:57 pm
As South Sudan prepares to hold its first-ever elections in December, resolving critical outstanding issues requires political will for compromise, the UN envoy to the country said on Friday.
Time running out on election timeline for South Sudan, UN official warns
Aug 04, 2023, at 08:29 pm
New York: Action is needed now to pave the way for timely and credible elections in South Sudan next December, the UN Special Representative for the country told journalists in the capital, Juba, on Wednesday.
South Sudan: UN agencies urge immediate action to avert deepening food crisis
Aug 02, 2023, at 09:34 pm
New York: UN food security agencies on Tuesday warned that South Sudan faces a severe humanitarian crisis unless immediate action and investment are taken to address food insecurity, climate challenges, and insecurity.
Impunity driving violence in South Sudan, UN rights commission says
Apr 04, 2023, at 07:30 pm
New York: Tackling impunity will be critical to end pervasive violence and horrific human rights violations and abuses in South Sudan, a UN inquiry said on Monday, presenting its latest report, which names individuals warranting investigation.
South Sudan: Violence against civilians ticks up despite fall in attacks overall
Mar 18, 2023, at 06:03 pm
New York: Violence against civilians in South Sudan rose by two per cent during 2022, according to the latest annual report on Violence Affecting Civilians from the UN peacekeeping mission there, UNMISS.
Impunity drives cycles of ‘horrific’ crimes in South Sudan, Human Rights Council hears
Mar 09, 2023, at 01:10 am
Impunity is a major driver of the human rights and humanitarian crises in South Sudan, which continue to cause immense trauma and suffering for civilians in the country, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Tuesday.
South Sudan faces ‘make or break’ year on road to lasting peace
Mar 07, 2023, at 09:17 pm
New York: South Sudan sits at a critical crossroad, with swift action needed to quell chronic intercommunal clashes, ramp up assistance to ever more communities in need, and advance progress towards a durable peace, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Monday.
Rights experts say peaceful transition in South Sudan crucial, amid ‘immense suffering’
Feb 18, 2023, at 06:35 pm
South Sudan’s leaders must prioritize a peaceful transition as rampant sexual violence and attacks on civilians continue across the world’s youngest nation, the UN Commission investigating human rights abuses there said on Friday.
South Sudan: UN rights chief appeals for end to ‘senseless violence’ in Upper Nile state
Dec 16, 2022, at 05:31 pm
Perpetrators behind deadly violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state must be brought to justice, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Wednesday.
South Sudan: Security Council urged to support implementation of roadmap to transition
Dec 14, 2022, at 10:22 pm
New York: There has been noticeable progress towards realizing the peace deal in South Sudan over the past three months, but more action is still needed under a new roadmap to transition, the Security Council heard on Tuesday.
South Sudan: ‘Raw violence’ displaces thousands during ‘ruthless conflict’, UNHCR says
Dec 09, 2022, at 05:59 pm
New York: Throughout South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile Region “desperation is rising” as escalating armed conflict, which has displaced at least 20,000 people since August, have forced some to run for their lives up to four times, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday.
South Sudan: Conflict and climate crisis drives rising hunger
Nov 04, 2022, at 10:45 pm
New York: The number of people in South Sudan who are going hungry is at the highest level ever, UN agencies said in their latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, issued on Thursday.
Rights experts calls for urgent action to implement South Sudan peace deal
Oct 21, 2022, at 09:16 pm
New York: Progress on the 2018 peace agreement for South Sudan has been “extremely slow”, UN human rights experts said on Wednesday, calling for urgent action to save lives.
South Sudan: ‘Urgent collective efforts’ needed in most dangerous humanitarian situation
Aug 19, 2022, at 07:34 pm
New York: On the eve of World Humanitarian Day, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, called on Thursday for joint action to address the aid crisis in the country and end attacks against civilians and humanitarian workers.
From ‘saga of horrors’ to serving the world: Liberia peacekeepers honoured in South Sudan
Jul 13, 2022, at 05:18 pm
New York: “I recall the civil war in Liberia vividly,” says Elfreda Dennice Stewart, a United Nations Police (UNPOL) officer serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
Window of opportunity closing for South Sudan, on road to lasting peace
Jun 21, 2022, at 11:16 pm
New York: With eight months remaining, the window of opportunity is closing for South Sudan to meet critical benchmarks required to complete its transition away from long-running civil conflict, the Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Monday, pressing parties to the November 2018 peace deal, to implement their commitments in letter and spirit.
South Sudan: UN humanitarians forced to cut aid to 1.7 million people
Jun 15, 2022, at 04:54 pm
Food assistance to 1.7 million people in South Sudan has been suspended, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, citing a funding crunch and rising needs.
FAO ramps up support to Sudan farmers as starvation threat grows in East Africa
Jun 01, 2022, at 08:03 pm
New York: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is scaling up operations in Sudan, where 10.9 million people, 30 per cent of the population, are expected to need lifesaving support this year – the highest number in the past decade, the UN agency said on Tuesday.
UN condemns ‘horrific’ surge of violence in South Sudan
Apr 26, 2022, at 06:34 pm
New York: Additional peacekeepers have been deployed to Leer county, South Sudan, following a surge of violence, including rapes, gang rapes, beheadings, burning civilians alive, and attacks on humanitarians, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, reported on Monday.
Humanitarians urge action to avert famine in Somalia and South Sudan
Apr 14, 2022, at 12:25 am
The threat of famine is very real in Somalia and South Sudan and urgent action is needed now to avoid a catastrophe, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday.
South Sudan: $1.7 billion plan launched to meet humanitarian needs
Apr 02, 2022, at 02:41 am
New York: The UN and partners on Thursday launched a $1.7 billion Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for South Sudan, to meet the needs of some 6.8 million vulnerable people this year.
South Sudan: ‘hellish existence’ for women and girls, new UN report reveals
Mar 22, 2022, at 04:20 pm
New York: Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Monday.
South Sudan: Condemnation for attempted ambush on food convoy
Mar 02, 2022, at 10:37 pm
New York: A peacekeeper is in stable condition a day after being shot during an attempted ambush on a UN convoy in South Sudan, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, and the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Tuesday.
South Sudan: Political violence on the rise, UN rights experts warn
Feb 12, 2022, at 06:48 pm
New York: UN human rights experts have warned of increased political violence and polarization between communities across the world’s youngest country, South Sudan, following a fact-finding visit there this week.
South Sudan: Senior UN official condemns killing of humanitarian worker
Dec 21, 2021, at 04:37 pm
New York: The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan has strongly condemned the killing of a UN-contracted aid worker on Sunday, that also left another injured, after the convoy they were travelling in came under attack.
South Sudan ‘determined to never go back to war’
Sep 25, 2021, at 11:11 pm
New York:South Sudan is “ready to turn a new page” towards greater peace, development and prosperity, Vice-President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior said in her speech in the UN General Assembly on Friday.
South Sudan plagued by violence and corruption, Human Rights Council hears
Sep 24, 2021, at 06:22 pm
South Sudan continues to be “plagued” by violence and corruption, the Human Rights Council heard on Thursday, jeopardizing the young nation’s efforts to establish lasting peace and put it on the road towards sustainable development.
South Sudan: Cash shortage triggers food suspensions for 100,000 displaced
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:40 pm
New York: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that beginning next month, funding shortages will force it to suspend lifesaving food assistance for more than 100,000 displaced people in parts of South Sudan until the start of 2022.