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GENEVA (Reuters) – The international community can stop a “Rwanda-like” genocide in South Sudan if it immediately deploys a 4,000-strong protection force and sets up Read more
By Ed Cropley | JOHANNESBURG South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in August after fierce fighting, is being Read more
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Some 3.6 million people in South Sudan face severe food shortages – the highest levels ever experienced at harvest time Read more
By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) – United Nations officials told Reuters on Thursday that attacks on aid workers and bureaucratic interference are preventing supplies from Read more
By Tom Miles and Ed Cropley GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Ethnic cleansing is taking place in some areas of South Sudan and the stage is set Read more
By Aaron Ross | KARUKWAT, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Charity Mandulu said the executions began soon after government soldiers – around 100 of them mostly Read more
JUBA (Reuters) – A contingent of Japanese troops landed in South Sudan on Monday, an official said – a mission that critics say could see Read more
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States circulated on Thursday to the 15-member United Nations Security Council a draft resolution to impose Read more
JUBA — The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said it is distributing life-saving items to more than 6,000 vulnerable families trapped by fighting in Yei River Read more
By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) – A popular South Sudanese radio station set up with U.S. backing was shut down on Friday by security officials, Read more
The Committee to Project Journalists says 95 percent of the journalists murdered around the world over the last 10 years were local reporters. Yet, in Read more
NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar is in South Africa to receive medical treatment, his spokesman said on Thursday, after the former Read more
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Officials of the South Sudan Democratic Movement/Cobra Faction, formerly led by David Yau Yau, have vowed to wage war again against the Read more
By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights commission said on Thursday it was concerned by intimidation of civil society activists, harassment of Read more
A human rights group says it has found evidence of huge war profiteering by some of South Sudan’s top political leaders, including the heads of Read more
Facing intense international pressure, war-ravaged South Sudan on Sunday agreed to the deployment of a 4,000-member regional protection force approved last month by the United Read more
By Michelle Nichols JUBA (Reuters) – Displaced civilians and religious leaders in war-torn South Sudan appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to urgently Read more
By Lesley Wroughton NAIROBI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he and regional states were committed to giving momentum to Read more
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan foreign minister Amina Mohamed said on Monday she wanted a Security Council-sanctioned U.N. protection force to be deployed in South Sudan Read more
By Denis Dumo and Michelle Nichols JUBA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – South Sudan’s opposition leader, Riek Machar, is in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, the Read more
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Talks to secure a lasting ceasefire in Sudan’s three warring regions under a road map for peace have collapsed less than a Read more
They came to Kenya as refugees — and they left as Olympians By David McKenzie, Briana Duggan and Fabien Muhire, CNN Ngong, Kenya (CNN ) Read more
[BBC] The UN Security Council has called on warring factions in South Sudan to immediately end the recent fighting and prevent the spread of violence. In Read more
[Aljazeera] Gun battles reported near army barracks and UN base as intense fighting resumes after weekend clashes killed over 100. Intense fighting has resumed in Read more
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