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South Sudan confirms 10 new cases of COVID-19 as total rises to 45

Ihesiulo Grace 2 May 2020 0

South Sudan’s Ministry of Health confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 late Friday, bringing the total number of infections to 45. Out of 138 samples tested, ten new cases were confirmed as positive, including two truck drivers at the Nimule border crossing and two domestic travellers. READ ALSO:

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Pope, religious leaders, send South Sudan rivals Christmas peace appeal

Ihesiulo Grace 25 December 2019 0

Pope Francis and two other religious leaders sent out an extraordinary Christmas appeal on Wednesday to the leaders of South Sudan to keep their promise to form at least a transitional unity government early in 2020. The brief message was signed by Francis, worldwide Anglican leader Archbishop Justin Welby, and Rev. John Chalmers, former moderator […]

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New peace talks begin on South Sudan’s war as pressure grows

Ihesiulo Grace 5 February 2018 0

A new round of peace talks on South Sudan’s civil war has begun as regional powers seek a solution to a five-year conflict that has caused Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Monday’s talks in Ethiopia come days after the United States announced an arms embargo on South Sudan and urged further […]

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South Sudan rebels release 15 prisoners to Red Cross

Ihesiulo Grace 29 January 2018 0

A South Sudanese rebel group said on Monday it had released 15 soldiers it had been holding to The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in line with a ceasefire agreed by the government and rebel groups. On Dec. 21, 2017, the government and rebel groups signed a ceasefire in the latest attempt to […]

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Britain to put women at heart of peace work in Iraq, Nigeria and South Sudan

Ihesiulo Grace 17 January 2018 0

Britain announced on Tuesday it would be putting girls and women at the heart of its work to end conflict in nine countries including Iraq, Nigeria and South Sudan. “Empowering women and girls … improves peace and stability, economic growth and poverty reduction,” senior ministers said in a National Action Plan on Women, Peace and […]

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Death toll from fighting in Sudan’s Great Lakes rises to 200

Ihesiulo Grace 13 December 2017 0

Human carnage in the clan fighting in South Sudan has been reported to have reached about 200, while hundreds of others are hospitalised and thousands displaced. The death toll from inter ethnic fighting in South Sudan’s Great Lakes region last week has reached at least 200, local media reports, even as officials on Tuesday reported […]

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Girls raped, boys abducted, towns torched in South Sudan

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2015 0

Gunmen in South Sudan have raped girls, seized boys to become soldiers and torched towns in some of the heaviest fighting seen in the 17-month-long civil war, the United Nations (UN) said on Tuesday. Over 300 000 civilians have been left without “life-saving aid” in the northern battleground state of Unity, after the UN and […]

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UN Welcomes Deployment of British Air Force Aircraft in S’Sudan

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2015 0

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday in Juba welcomed the temporary deployment of a British Royal Air Force C-130 aircraft to South Sudan. The UNMISS said the aircraft, which arrived in Juba, on Sunday would conduct daily flights to Malakal in Upper Nile State. The Mission said the aircraft would help in […]