Tag: South Sudan
South Sudan on the brink of civil war: bold action from...
South Sudan is likely to return to full-blown civil war unless the international community takes a radical approach to stabilise the country and re-engage...
Violence in South Sudan is rising again: what’s different this time,...
A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return...
Detention of South Sudanese Vice President could spur civil war –...
Less than a week after warning the African Union (AU) that South Sudan was on the brink of civil war, the senior United Nations...
AU warned South Sudan on the brink of civil war
The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) was this week warned South Sudan is “on the brink of relapse into civil war”...
Invisible wars and visible suffering: The ICRC’s role in Africa’s humanitarian...
Patrick Youssef, Head of Africa for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), offers a sobering analysis of Africa’s escalating humanitarian crises, amid...
UN Medal of Honour for Nepalese battalion
A Nepalese Reserve Force battalion serving with the United Nations mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is the 2024 UN Medal of Honour for Exceptional...
Peacekeeping challenges grow, more resources needed, UNSC hears
The dynamics of peacekeeping have grown to incorporate transnational organised crime, illegal resource exploitation, climate change impacts, a proliferation of cheap weaponised technology and...
Bangladeshi marine unit essential to UNMISS operations
A Bangladesh force marine unit (BANFMU) is an important element of the south Asian country’s 1 600 plus component to the United Nations (UN)...
Famine fears escalate in Sudan, talks ongoing, while violence continues in...
Hunger and the spectre of famine “stalk” Sudan, particularly the North Darfur capital El Fasher where an estimated 800 000 are trapped without food,...
African conflicts under the AU/UN microscope
Eight countries and two African regions were under scrutiny when the United Nations (UN)/African Union (AU) Joint Task Force (JTF) on peace and security...
Inter-communal conflict a big killer in South Sudan
The last quarter of 2023 saw a surge in inter-communal conflict in what the United Nations (UN) Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) terms “pockets”...
South Sudan: some spoilers want peace to fail, putting 2024 elections...
South Sudan is expected to hold its first general election in December 2024. It became an independent state in 2011.
The long overdue election is...
South Sudan undeclared ammo issue resolved amicably
The arrival of 16 boxes of undeclared ammunition with a contingent rotating into South Sudan for a tour of duty with the United Nations...
UN service medals for Rwandan peacekeepers in South Sudan
The Rwandan contingent (Rwanbatt-1) of UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) was honoured with world body’s service medal 10 months after deployment.
Peacekeeping duties...
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...
