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Severe food insecurity and conflict continued to affect vulnerable people in April. Some 7.2 million people are estimated to be severely food insecure, including 108,000 people in hard-to-reach areas facing catastrophic conditions. Food prices increased significantly in April due to insecurity along the main Nimule-Juba supply route from Uganda. Findings from an inter-agency needs assessment in Tonj North County, Warrap, confirmed the urgent needs of more than 31,000 food-insecure people displa...

South Sudan: Humanitarian Snapshot (April 2021) Format Severe food insecurity and conflict continued to affect vulnerable people in April. Some 7.2 million people are estimated to be severely food insecure, including 108,000 people in hard-to-reach areas facing catastrophic conditions. Food prices increased significantly in April due to insecurity along the main Nimule-Juba supply route from Uganda. Findings from an inter-agency needs assessment in Tonj North County, Warrap, confirmed the urgen...

Daily Monitor Friday May 07 2021 President Museveni talks to one of the technocrats during the groundbreaking ceremony for rehabilitation of Tororo-Gulu Railway line in Gulu District last year as EU ambassador Attilio Pacifici (2nd left) and other officials look on. PHOTO/courtesy Summary Speaker Rebecca Kadaga acknowledged the changes and referred the revised request for scrutiny by Parliament’s Committee on National Economy. Advertisement Mr David Bahati, the State Minister for Planning, su...

Four Kenyan long-distance cargo truck drivers and two turn-men have reportedly been kidnapped by unknown gunmen at Terekeka town in South Sudan, media reports in Uganda indicate. The town is located on the Western bank of the Nile, 53 miles North of the capital Juba, the Daily Monitor adds. It is said the kidnappers are demanding 15 million South Sudan pounds in exchange for the freedom of the captives. Besides the Kenyans, a Ugandan truck driver identified as Vincent Mulika, alias Kamand...

Daily Monitor Saturday May 01 2021 Vincent Mulika alias Kamanda, the Uganda cargo truck driver allegedly beaten at Terekeka checkpoint in South Sudan, receives treatment at the hospital. Photo | Courtesy Summary He becomes the latest Ugandan truck driver to fall victim of the attacks along the Nimule-Juba highway which are mainly targeting foreign cargo drivers from the neighbouring East African countries plying the route. The highway is a lifeline for South Sudan, which imports almost everythi...

April 20, 2021 A lab specialist securing samples taken from suspected COVID-19 patients in South Sudan earlier South Sudan health officials have stopped administering 60,000 doses of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine that are past the expiration date but still have a shelf life of at least six months, according to the drugmaker and the World Health Organization (WHO). The doses, which were donated by the mobile telecommunications network, MTN and the African Union (AU), arrived in Juba about th...

New Torit Archdiocese Internal Province in Eastern Equatoria State Archbishop Charles Ogeno. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj] The Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS) has nominated a new Archbishop to lead Torit Archdiocese Internal Province in Eastern Equatoria State. This comes after Archbishop Bernard Oringa retired in January in adherence to the church’s constitution which bars an incumbent who has attained 65 years of age from continuing in office.  Taban Joseph Roman, the Councillor of the ECS...

There are delays in transporting goods as drivers protest insecurity on the Juba-Nimule highway.

Movement along Juba-Nimule road resumes with security escort More than 100 commercial trucks entered South Sudan through the Nimule border over the weekend after about a week of protest by drivers demanding safety guarantees to cross into the country.  This follows a joint meeting in Ugandas Elegu border town where Ugandan and South Sudanese government officials agreed to resolve the impasse.  Last week, truckers demanded protection from the government of South Sudan after more than 10 people...

On South Sudan highways, truck drivers face the ‘Wild West’ Saturday April 10 2021 Cargo trucks await clearance at the Malaba border. The Kenyan government has warned its drivers about dangerous highways in South Sudan, following a fatal attack. Photo | File | NMG Summary Juba-Nimule Highway connects the capital of South Sudan to the border with Uganda, the main route Kenyan drivers use to ferry transit goods to South Sudan. Advertisement Kenyan truck drivers say thugs mounting illegal roa...