Amid spreading cholera outbreak, UN migration agency aids South Sudanese

May 11, 2017, at 04:57 am

New York, May 10(Just Earth News): United Nations humanitarian workers are responding to a growing cholera outbreak in Ayod, the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, one of multiple counties throughout the country where the disease has spread since June 2016.

UN migration agency transports hundreds of South Sudanese refugees from border into Ethiopia

May 06, 2017, at 01:22 pm

New York, May 6(Just Earth News): The United Nations migration agency has begun transferring South Sudanese refugees from Ethiopia's Pagak border entry point in Gambella to the Gore-Shembola refugee camp in Benishangul Gumuz Regional States – approximately 835 kilometres away.

Diseases and sexual violence threaten Somalis, South Sudanese escaping famine – UN

Apr 19, 2017, at 01:57 pm

New York, Apr 19(Just Earth News): Millions of people are facing the peril of famine in Somalia and South Sudan, and the situation is expected to worsen as the drought and violence fuelling the crises widen, cautioned senior United Nations officials who have just returned from the area.

UN report highlights ‘searing’ account of killings, rapes by South Sudanese forces

Mar 12, 2016, at 02:04 pm

New York, Mar 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS):A new United Nations report on the human rights situation in South Sudan published on Friday describes a multitude of horrendous violations in “searing detail,” in particular by Government forces, including cases of civilians burned alive or cut to pieces and a teenage girl being raped by ten soldiers.