United Nations: The World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based UN agency, temporarily halted all operations, as a result of the fighting between rival military groups in Sudan, which led to the deaths of three WFP employees on Saturday. According to a statement attributable to WFP’s Executive
South Sudan: Pakistani peacekeepers in South Sudan are now reinforcing hundreds of kilometers of dykes they built some two years ago to save communities in the Unity State from the cascading waters and leaching mud, the UN said. When the water levels first began rising alarmingly
Juba: Tens of thousands of people sang, drummed and ululated as Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan for an unprecedented joint "pilgrimage of peace" with his Anglican and Scottish Presbyterian counterparts. The young African country broke away from Sudan to become independent in 2011 after decades
New York: The failure of the peace process in South Sudan and the subsequent extension of transition deadlines will lead to further suffering of civilians and the inevitable outbreak of civil war, women’s activist Lilian Riziq warned a meeting of the UN Security Council. Riziq, president
Juba: Scores of civilians were killed in political clashes in South Sudan between February and May this year, a UN report said Tuesday, with women and children subjected to brutal assaults, including gang rape. The clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his rival,