By Audrey Wabwire One hot Tuesday afternoon last January, about 10 South Sudanese government soldiers Many of the farming villages in her area have become the front lines of South Sudan’s four-year civil Despite a 2015 peace agreement, fighting between South Sudan’s government and rebel forces has spread As in elsewhere in South Sudan, the fighting split communities down ethnic lines – with mostly Dinka Sudan the largest humanitarian disaster in Africa today.

Before 2005, South Sudan was the victim of a twenty-year genocide by the Sudanese army and Arab militias The 2005 agreement also left the status of the oil rich Abyei region at the Sudan-South Sudan border South Sudan became independent in 2011. South Sudan is not a state-party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. South Sudan is led by corrupt war criminals.

This Timestream highlights important events in South Sudan prior to its emergence as an independent The existing humanitarian efforts of international and domestic NGOs are not enough to help the South

wearing RSF uniforms that Human Rights Watch geolocated to the village of Tungul, close to Habila, South The United Nations and the African Union should urgently deploy a mission to protect civilians in Sudan On January 1, the RSF attacked Fayu, 17 kilometers south, also under SAF control. The United Nations and the African Union have not taken concrete steps to protect civilians. “The United Nations and the African Union should take decisive steps to deploy a mission that can protect

between June and September last year, according to the UN [File: Andreea Campeanu/Reuters] Members of South The UN Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR) in South Sudan released a new report on Friday, saying it had “reasonable grounds to believe that members of the Government of South Sudan have engaged in acts … a range of crimes under national and international law,” Chair of the Commission on Human Rights in South Continuing instability Oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in June 2011, but has been

By Chase Winter Continued conflict in South Sudan has forced 52,000 people to flee to Uganda in January More than 52,000 South Sudanese fled to Uganda in January amid continued fighting that risks turning Dieng said there was particular concern about the situation in Kajo-Keji, located south of the capital South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013, less than two years after gaining independence. and disrupted humanitarian activities would likely contribute to extreme levels of food insecurity in South

The North’s leadership says it will now treat the South as an “enemy,” the latest sign of chilling relations By Chloe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Tuesday that it would cut off all communication lines with South Korea, including military hotlines, as it vowed to reverse a recent détente on the Korean Peninsula and start treating the South as an “enemy.” North Korea made the decision when its top officials in charge of relations with the South, including

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) airdrop close to Rubkuai village in Unity State, northern South The UN has just declared famine in parts of war-torn South Sudan. While the causes of famine are complex in a place like South Sudan, the current situation is clearly Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese have fled the country to seek safety. Currently some 4,000 South Sudanese cross the border to Uganda every day.

Twelve years since independence, the people of South Sudan continue to face huge challenges, exacerbated The conflict has also affected South Sudan’s economy by closing the main oil pipeline. Marie-Helene Verney, UNHCR Representative in South Sudan, said that “we need to link humanitarian assistance South Sudan has over 460,000 refugees from Sudan, DRC and Ethiopia. With the conflict in Sudan, South Sudan is receiving 1,600 people daily including refugees and returnees

overnight, after Lebanese state media reported an Israeli strike on an ammunition depot deep in the south Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said they also fired a rocket salvo from south Lebanon

To keep the peace, South Korea wants to stop them. By Chloe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — The hydrogen balloons float over the world’s most heavily guarded North Korean leaflets beckoned South Korean soldiers to flee to “the socialist paradise.” Moon, the South’s president, in 2018, they agreed to end their cross-border propaganda. The issue has raised intense passions, not least among South Koreans living near the border.

Human rights organisations in Eswatini and South Africa have launched a legal challenge against the Eswatini It noted that South Africa had raised concerns about the agreement and its potential security risks for In a statement on 5 August, the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation ( “South Africa’s concerns about the whole exercise are well documented and well known, and Eswatini has Africa,” said Magwenya.