By Halima Athumani The nearly 1 million South Sudanese refugees in Uganda face shortages of food, water She was attacked in South Sudan six months ago, but she is still afraid to answer the door. They started looking around and took 500 South Sudanese pounds and left. rights officials said earlier this year that rape had reached “epic proportions” in the conflict in South FILE - A young South Sudanese refugee girl shields her face from the scorching sun as she waits in line

By Alison Williams It started out as a normal Monday morning in Pajok in South Sudan - children walking dozens of Pajok residents who made it 24 hours later to the safety of Uganda, 15 km (10 miles) to the south Most of the SPLA is made up of members of the Dinka tribe, South Sudan’s largest and most dominant. Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers receive South Sudanese refugees crossing into Uganda at South Sudanese refugees gather with their belongings after crossing into Uganda at the Ngomoromo border

Guns in South Sudan credit: Phillip Dhil/EPA South Sudan breaking arms embargo, says UN Experts Panel Sudan Tribune May 14, 2024   May 14, 2024 (JUBA) – A new report by a United Nations Panel of Experts on South The Security Council imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan through Resolution 2428 (2018) and has since The Council, however, said it would review the arms embargo measures if South Sudan fulfilled certain and weapons stores, amidst recommendations that the South Sudan should seek support for weapons and

said the decision to close the embassy had been prompted by Ireland’s announcement of its support for South Africa’s legal action against Israel in the ICJ, accusing Israel of ‘genocide’.” and minister for foreign affairs, that he had secured government approval for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel under the genocide convention. “By legally intervening in South Africa’s case, Ireland will be asking the ICJ to broaden its interpretation

ourselves,” says Simon Logocho, a stall holder in a scruffy market in Pibor, a remote town in eastern South As elsewhere in Africa where mass starvation threatens, the crisis in South Sudan has been caused by Photograph: Jason Burke for the Guardian The violence in South Sudan is complex. South Sudan’s leaders have been accused of “deliberate starvation tactics”. There is little chance of any immediate improvement for South Sudan.

on September 22, 2022 Women wait at a food distribution site in a United Nations camp outside Juba, South drastically cut funding for emergency medical and psychosocial care for victims of sexual violence in South Sudan, said the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan after recent missions to Western “It is difficult to comprehend that we are now seeing women in South Sudan who have been gang raped in “It’s not that there is a lot of sexual violence in South Sudan.

Helene Sandbu Ryeng Bathi Kuju is playing with his youngest daughter Gol at a nutrition centre in Pibor, South Sudan Facebook The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with international partners, have called UNMISS, the African Union mission, regional bloc IGAD, the so-called Troika (United States, United Kingdom ), the European Union, and the body overseeing the peace agreement signed by the warring parties in South They called on South Sudanese leaders “to urgently intervene to stop the fighting and ensure the safety

In a similar vein, Christian Sita Mampuya, representative of the Congolese community in South Africa, Available at: www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34413855 (accessed 31 March 2021). Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/central-africa/rwanda/stopping-sudansslow-motion-genocide South Africa: Franschhoek. Loons R (1933) Etude sur le territoire des Bafulero, District du Kivu. South African Broadcast Corporation, 3 August. Available at: www.youtube.com/watch?

teenagers in North Korea have been killed by firing squad for watching and selling movies from neighbouring South Kim Jong-un views South Korea as an American puppet state, and is sensitive to any of its media crossing North Korean youth caught watching foreign movies face being sent to a disciplinary labour centre, one But anyone caught distributing or selling South Korean movies can face the death penalty, even if they /www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11503103/North-Korea-executes-two-teenagers-firing-squad-watching-South-Korean-movies.html

The UN warns that South Sudan's crisis is worsening and that removing the label of famine doesn't mean (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) South Sudan no longer has areas in famine, but almost two million people South Sudan's famine was the first to be formally declared anywhere in the world since 2011's crisis The situation remains critical, according to reports by South Sudan's National Bureau of Statistics and In February, South Sudan declared two counties in Unity State to be in famine.

But in many socially conservative and religious countries in Africa, where homosexuality is a taboo, South Africa, which rejoined the Commonwealth after the end of white-minority rule in 1994, is one of has one of the most liberal constitutions in the world, which protects gay rights, and was the first African

recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual attacks in a volatile county in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said Monday. attacks on civilians in Leer,” Nicholas Haysom, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for South South Sudan has been plagued by sporadic violence since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. After years of battling against Sudan, South Sudan won independence in 2011.