Tag: South Sudan
Mashatile talks peace in South Sudan
South African Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, is Cyril Ramaphosa’s point man for South Sudan and was in the continent’s newest country this week to...
War in Sudan puts South Sudan in danger too: the world’s...
Twelve years after independence, South Sudan remains extremely poor and underdeveloped. A peace deal brokered in 2018 has failed to end conflict. And the...
UNMISS marks 75 years of peacekeeping in the world’s newest country
South African Nicholas Haysom, head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), used Monday’s (29 May) International Day of the Peacekeeper to...
Sudan’s conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region...
Sudan, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This means that Sudan’s current conflict will...
Kenyan airlift moves South Sudanese into DR Congo for regional force...
An example of regional co-operation in the quest for peace saw Kenya Defence Forces, in the form of its air force, supply airlift and...
Make or break year for South Sudan
South Sudan is at a critical crossroad with action needed to quell inter-communal clashes, ramp up assistant to ever more communities in need and...
No end to violence in South Sudan
Violence against South Sudanese civilians increased sharply at the end of last year according to the United Nations (UN) mission in the world’s youngest...
2023 “a critical year” for South Sudan – top UN official
There has to be forward movement on at least four fronts as South Sudan enters “a critical year” with a sense of urgency essential...
Worrying youth mobilisation in South Sudan
The United Nations (UN) mission in South Sudan – UNMISS – is concerned about reports of armed Nuer youth mobilising in the greater Jonglei...
UNMISS medal parade
Just reward for an away from home deployment in a dangerous and hostile environment came in the form of a United Nations (UN) medal...
Medals for Rwandan peacekeepers
Two Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) units – the 1st Battalion called Rwanbatt-3 and Rwanda Aviation Unit serving under the UN Mission in South Sudan...
ISS: Splintered armed forces still obstruct peace in South Sudan
In April, President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice President Riek Machar re-committed to the peace deal they signed in 2018 that ended five years...
Three reasons for hope that South Sudan can find peace after...
South Sudan’s nation building never really started. Two years into its hard-won independence, a civil war broke out in December 2013. This robbed the...
Zimbabwean major honoured with UN military gender advocate award
Zimbabwean military observer Major Winnet Zhahare was today (Thursday, 26 May) named the 2021 United Nations (UN) Military Gender Advocate of the Year –...
Peacekeeping in South Sudan: it’s a race against time for the...
A notable consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the near-complete breakdown of what was already a deeply fraught relationship among the permanent...
Conflict related sexual violence on the rise in South Sudan
A decrease in violence against civilians in South Sudan is offset by cases of conflict related sexual violence more than doubling, compared to the...
Kiir and Machar: insights into South Sudan’s strongmen
Salva Kiir and Riek Machar loom large over South Sudan’s recent history. And they will keep holding the future of the young nation in...
Peace in South Sudan hinges on forging a unified military force:...
Implementation of the 2018 peace agreement in South Sudan lags significantly behind its mandated schedule. One of the reasons for this slow progress is...
UN service medals for Ghanaians in South Sudan
Ghanaian troops deployed in South Sudan since July last year were honoured with United Nations (UN) service medals for, among others, “proving their undisputed...
ISS: Kiir and Machar kiss and make up yet again
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Riek Machar shook hands this week on yet another agreement to revive the chronically faltering peace...
Cracks in South Sudan’s fragile peace could further harm civilians
Clashes in parts of the Unity and Upper Nile states of South Sudan over recent weeks have resulted in killings, displacement, attacks against aid,...
Inter-communal clashes see UNMISS increase patrols
An increase in inter-communal clashes in South Sudan’s Warrap State and neighbouring Abyei Special Administrative Region has seen the United Nations (UN) mission up...
Rape used as conflict reward in South Sudan – UNHCR
Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is fuelled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) in South...
UNMISS efforts see drop in South Sudan violence
Evidence of the good work done by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) comes in a just released report showing a 42%...
Pakistani sappers contain South Sudan flood damage
A hundred days and counting is how Pakistani peacekeepers with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) describe their current task which sees...
“Over-zealous” security undermining peace in South Sudan
State security forces in South Sudan are responsible for new and potentially arbitrary restrictions against prominent civil society leaders, issuing “credible” death threats undermining...
UNMISS temporary bases put blue helmets where needed
Preventing conflict starting or speedily mitigating its effects on civilians through temporary bases in hotspots is a key priority for the UN Mission in...
ISS: Rising community violence exposes South Sudan’s fragile peace deal
Security arrangements under the 2018 peace agreement are already strained as efforts to unify the armed forces falter.
A surge in community violence in adds...
ISS: Deadly cost of South Sudan’s delayed security reforms
Violent clashes between armed factions in Riek Machar’s camp highlight the urgency of creating a unified defence force.
South Sudan has failed to unify the...
Thai sappers in South Sudan go the extra mile
Blue helmets from Thailand working with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) not only do their bit to repair and rehabilitate critical infrastructure...
Internet disrupted, streets quiet in South Sudan after call for protests
Internet services in South Sudan were disrupted on Monday and security forces patrolled the streets after activists called for protests against President Salva Kiir's...
Medals for Indian and Sri Lankan peacekeepers
The service of almost 250 Indian and Sri Lankan “blue berets” serving with the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was noted at a...
South Sudan president dissolves parliament in line with peace deal
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dissolved parliament, a long-awaited step to pave the way for the appointment of lawmakers from formerly warring parties...
South African heads up UNMISS
Another notable position is now on South African lawyer Nicholas “Fink” Haysom’s international relations CV following his arrival in South Sudan at the weekend...
South Sudan peacekeepers rescue deminers
Even those working at removing and disabling mines as well as other potentially lethal remnants of war are not safe from attacks, including ambushes...
Violence still raging in South Sudan despite peace deal: UN
Violence is still raging in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end a civil war that...
Ghanaian peacekeepers South Sudan mercy mission
Ghanaian peacekeepers at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) were commended for giving lifesaving support to a man severely wounded in recent violent...
ISS: Ethiopia can learn from its neighbours about national dialogue
The optimism initially generated by Ethiopia’s much-praised political transition that started in 2018 has waned. Rivalry has grown between the federal government and some...
South Sudan death toll in disarmament fighting rises, UN sends peacekeepers
The death toll in South Sudan’s Warrap State has risen to 148 following fighting this past weekend during a disarmament exercise, a local government...
At least 81 people killed as South Sudan’s disarmament erupts in...
At least 81 people have been killed in the South Sudan region of Warrap State following heavy fighting between armed civilians and government forces carrying...
Hundreds killed in South Sudan tribal clashes – ICRC
Hundreds of civilians, including three aid workers, were killed in a series of tribal clashes in villages in South Sudan’s vast Jonglei state, the...
ISS: Can South Sudan change its approach to politics?
The formation of South Sudan’s new unity government on 22 February is a major milestone in recent efforts to restore peace in that country....
Former rebel leader now Sudan’s first vice president
Former rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as South Sudan’s first vice president on Saturday as part of a unity government with former...
South Sudan unity government coming
Former South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar agreed to form a unity government with President Salva Kiir by Saturday’s deadline, following talks at state...
South Sudan unity government deadline looms
Former South Sudanese rebels in t-shirts and sandals marched alongside government forces in a display to reassure international monitors progress is being made on...
South Sudan cuts number of states
South Sudan President Salva Kiir cut the number of states from 32 to 10, unlocking a stalled peace deal and paving the way for...
Abducted South Sudan women and children released
The expert leading UN efforts to stamp out sexual violence in war welcomed the release of 78 women and 50 children by an armed...
Sudan political and security deal signed
Sudan and a rebel group signed a preliminary deal on political and security arrangements, paving the way for reconciliation through ongoing talks.
Sudan’s ruling council...
Tribal attack in disputed South Sudan region
Suspected Misseriya tribesmen killed at least 29 people, some burned to death, in an attack on a village in the disputed Abyei border region...
US imposes sanctions on South Sudan vice president
The US imposed sanctions on South Sudanese First Vice President Taban Deng Gai, the US Treasury Department said in a statement, in Washington’s latest...