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  • Sudan, South Sudan Agree to End Row Over Rebels, Oil Exports

    news The Wall Street Journal, 02 Jul 2013 (10 years ago )
    The governments of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to refrain from backing proxy rebels to allow the continued export of South's crude through Sudan, giving a potential lifeline to their respective economies, officials said Tuesday. At the end of two days of talks in Khartoum, the Sudanese capita...
  • South Sudan: New refugees from Sudan in need of assistance

    news MSF, 11 Oct 2013 (10 years ago )
    Some 2,500 Sudanese from the troubled South Kordofan State have arrived in the towns of Kodok and Lelo, in Fashoda and Malakal counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state in need of humanitarian assistance. Many of the displaced are women and children. They have walked between five and 10 days, fl...
  • Unity calls for new girls' laws

    news UNMISS, 17 Oct 2013 (10 years ago )
    17 October 2013 - Recommending new laws to protect girls’ rights, Unity State Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNICEFcelebrated International Day of the Girl Child today in the capital Bentiu. Speaking during the event (traditionally celebrated on 11 October), state Education Technical...
  • Mass yellow fever vaccination campaign to stem spread in Sudan

    news Radio Dabanga, 04 Dec 2013 (10 years ago )
    The Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has notified the World Health Organisation (WHO) of a yellow fever outbreak in West and South Kordofan. Between 3 October and 24 November, a total of 44 suspected cases of yellow fever, including 14 deaths, were reported. The field investigation carr...
  • Parliament ratifies convention against torture

    news Radio Miraya, 03 Dec 2013 (10 years ago )
    (December 3, 2013) The National Legislative Assembly Tuesday ratified the United Nations' convention against torture. South Sudan became the 155th country to commit to the measures to prevent acts of torture or other forms of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. Hon. Gabriel G...
  • More civilians seeking protection at UNMISS bases

    news UNMISS, 13 Jan 2014 (10 years ago )
    13 January 2014 - As hundreds of civilians continued to seek refuge UNMISS bases in Juba, the mission and humanitarian partners were preparing to move some internally displaced people (IDPs) to a new protection site, an International Organization for Migration official said today in Juba. “A new si...
  • South Sudan Nile ferry sinks with more than 200 dead

    news BBC, 14 Jan 2014 (10 years ago )
    More than 200 civilians in South Sudan have drowned in a Nile ferry accident while fleeing fighting in the town of Malakal, an army spokesman has said. He said women and children were among the victims in Sunday's disaster. More than 350,000 people have been displaced by the fighting between the S...
  • Uganda: South Sudan conflict leaves women and children to cope as refugees

    news UNHCR, 20 Jan 2014 (10 years ago )
    ADJUMANI, Uganda, January 20 (UNHCR) – Walk around Dzaipi transit centre in northern Uganda and you will see thousands of children running about, tents full of pregnant women, young mothers and newborns, and elderly women resting against trees. What you do not see are many men. Women and children...
  • UNHCR, WFP Chiefs Warn Of Disaster In South Sudan

    news Gurtong, 02 Apr 2014 (9 years ago )
    From Mid-December 2013, the country is engulfed in an internal armed conflict following an alleged “coup” attempt by anti-government forces, which has left thousands of people dead and more than 800, 000 others displaced from their homes. This has exacerbated the already precarious humanitarian sit...
  • South Sudanese flood into Ethiopia amid desperate conditions

    news AFP / Yahoo News, 15 Apr 2014 (9 years ago )
    Geneva (AFP) - Up to 1,000 refugees from war-torn South Sudan are fleeing to Ethiopia each day, many of them on the brink of death, the UN said Tuesday. Since fighting erupted in December, refugees have been "arriving at a rate of 800-1,000 per day, and they are arriving on their last legs," Meli...