Heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine extracting heavy civilian toll, UN Security Council hears

Feb 03, 2017, at 02:10 pm

New York, Feb 3 (Just Earth News): Briefing the Security Council on the situation in eastern Ukraine, the top United Nations political and humanitarian officials underlined on Thursday that continuing fighting in the region, with only short periods of respite, have exasperated human suffering.

Thousands flee to Uganda to escape renewed violence in South Sudan – UN refugee agency

Jul 20, 2016, at 01:18 pm

New York, July 20 (Just Earth News): More than 5,000 people – primarily women and children under the age of 18 years – have fled from South Sudan to neighbouring Uganda since the latest violence in the country erupted on 7 July, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

UN condemns heavy fighting in South Sudanese capital, urges calm, access to displaced civilians

Jul 11, 2016, at 03:35 am

New York, July 10 (Just Earth News): The United Nations is again urging calm in the wake of heavy fighting in and around the South Sudanese capital of Juba, with the UN mission reporting that it has mobilized peacekeepers to protect civilians and the Security Council strongly condemning days of violence in the area, which also saw UN and diplomatic officials targeted, as the world's youngest country on Saturday marked the fifth anniversary of its independence.