Looming hunger emergency for South Sudanese families fleeing war
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’
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.
South Sudan: Conflict and climate crisis drives rising hunger
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.
Deadlock broken, South Sudan on road to ‘sustainable peace’, but international support still key
New York/IBNS: Positive developments in South Sudan have “moved the country further along the road to sustainable peace”, the top UN official there told Security Council members on Wednesday.
South Sudan: political will needed to form a unified government, on the road to peace
New York/IBNS: Extending the deadline for the establishment of a unity government in South Sudan has helped maintain a ceasefire but also disillusioned many citizens, the Security Council heard on Tuesday.
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South Sudan: UN calls for end to inter-communal clashes, attacks against aid workers
New York/IBNS: Peacekeepers have been sent to the northern Lakes region in South Sudan in a bid to deter further violence between communities there, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, said on Tuesday.
South Sudan’s ‘relentless conflict’ leaves almost 60 per cent suffering desperate food crisis
New York, Sept 29 (IBNS):“Relentless conflict” in South Sudan has now left more than six million people facing crisis levels of hunger, three UN agencies have said, amid ongoing efforts to deliver aid to the war-weary country.
South Sudan: amid security challenges, aid workers delivering ‘against the odds’
New York, Sept 26 (IBNS): Mayen is South Sudanese. He was forced to flee his home when the conflict started in 2013. Five years later, his voice is resonating in one of the conference rooms of United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the margins of the 73rd General Assembly.
Three years into conflict, humanitarian needs in South Sudan continue to rise – UN relief wing
New York, Dec 23 (Just Earth News):Since fighting first erupted in South Sudan three years back, tens of thousands have died, food insecurity and acute malnutrition are at unprecedented levels, and more than three million have been driven from their homes, the United Nations humanitarian arm has reported.