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UN demining body explodes landmines in South Sudan

After decades of civil war, landmines and unexploded bombs still contaminate large tracts of South Sudan's landscape, threatening the lives and livelihoods of its residents.

27/01/2022

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Bride, 16, sold in Facebook auction 'reminiscent of slave markets'

Bride, 16, sold in Facebook auction 'reminiscent of slave markets'

21/11/2018

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Rape as a weapon of war: Women in South Sudan speak out

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Some 65 percent of South Sudanese women have experienced sexual or physical violence, twice the global average

31/05/2018

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South Sudan: Fresh fighting flares, five years into civil war

The upsurge in violence in the world's youngest state comes ahead of planned peace talks and amid desperate humanitarian conditions

09/05/2018

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UN warns of impending cholera crisis in South Sudan

South Sudan faces a cholera crisis without more aid says UN

04/07/2017

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Thousands in South Sudan flee upsurge in ethnic killings

UN says makeshift refugee camps on the border with Uganda are full to over flowing following a further spread in ethnic killings

11/04/2017

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Thousands in famine-struck South Sudan forced to eat wild plants

Thousands of families caught up in South Sudan’s famine are hiding from marauding gunmen in the swamps and islands of the River Nile.

27/02/2017

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'Ethnic cleansing' reported in South Sudan

President Salva Kiir denies using starvation and rape as weapons of war as the UN describes the conflict as "fertile ground" for genocide.

01/12/2016

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UN sacks South Sudan peacekeeper commander

The commander of the UN force in South Sudan, Lt Gen Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki, has been sacked following a damning report UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that he was “deeply distr

01/11/2016

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South Sudan accepts new UN-backed peacekeeping force

Under increasing international pressure, South Sudan has agreed to accept 4,000 extra peacekeepers.

05/09/2016

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South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar in exile in DRC

The United Nations says it intervened on humanitarian grounds to help South Sudan’s former vice president and opposition leader in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of…

18/08/2016

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South Sudan : one year since peace deal

One year to the day since the signing of the peace agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and there is renewed tension between the two warring factions in South…

17/08/2016

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South Sudan agrees to deployment of international protection force

South Sudan’s embattled government has agreed to allow an international protection force to be deployed in the country, after a United Nations mission failed to prevent…

06/08/2016

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Foreign evacuees describe violence in South Sudan capital Juba

Evacuees from South Sudan have been arriving in the Kenyan capital Nairobi following days of violence and tension in Juba.

13/07/2016

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'Tense calm' in South Sudan, 36,000 displaced following heavy fighting - UN

Days of heavy fighting in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, have been followed by relative calm after the warring president and vice president ordered their forces to cease…

12/07/2016

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South Sudan's leaders announce ceasefire as UN calls for arms embargo on the country

Salva Kiir has ordered his SPLA army to observe a ceasefire in South Sudan.

11/07/2016

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Fresh fighting erupts in South Sudan after UN warns attacks 'may constitute war crimes'

Fresh clashes have erupted in Juba between forces loyal to the president and those supporting the vice president, renewing fears South Sudan will slip back into full-blown civil…

11/07/2016

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UN calls for calm following deadly clashes in South Sudan capital

Fears are growing of a return to civil war in South Sudan after renewed fighting between forces loyal to the country’s president and vice president.

11/07/2016

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Gunbattles resume in South Sudan's capital

Gunbattles in South Sudan’s capital Juba erupted for a fourth day between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and soldiers who support the vice president Riek Machar around a military…

10/07/2016