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South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil unrest, the Troika nations of the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway have warned in a statement on Tuesday.
The level of renewed violence in South Sudan culminating in abducted children being press-ganged into the ranks of armed militias is disquieting, a statement from Washington warns.
While most of the world has been overtaken with the festive holiday period, escalating tensions fueled by Lohilai and Lohiri communities in have taken a toll on those residing in South Sudan’s Omuruo, Eastern Equatoria.
Community leaders of South Sudan and Kenya have been meeting to tackle the rising insecurity caused by tension along their common border, APA can report from Juba on Tuesday.
With the agreement by all signatories on a roadmap to fulfil outstanding benchmarks contained within the Revitalized Peace Agreement and the graduation of the first batch of the Necessary Unified Forces, South Sudan is finally making tangible progress as it emerges from the devastation of civil war.
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has condemned in very strong terms what it called erroneous allegations that one of its Twic Dinka staff ‘has been killed alongside his family inside the UNISFA compound by the Ngok armed youth after they forcefully entered the compound to execute the non-Ngok inhabitants’.
The international community urgently needs to pay more attention to the escalating violence proliferating at a local level all over South Sudan, warned United Nations-appointed human rights experts during a visit to New York which concluded on Sunday.
A field worker of the World Health Organization in South Sudan has been shot dead at point blank range in Unity State, a statement by the WHO confirmed on Thursday.
Investment in oil and gas projects has declined and sanctions have reduced interest in the country’s first licensing round.
Over 200 healthcare workers in South Sudan’s fledgling health sector have been trained with the aim of improving real-time detection and prompt response to disease outbreaks and other health emergencies, APA can report from Juba on Tuesday.