More than 7 million South Sudanese will be facing a food crisis by July because of floods, drought and armed clashes. Food insecurity has worsened since last year. Increased armed violence, population displacement, and climatic shocks such as floods and droughts have played a role, the United Nations and South Sudan government said Saturday in…
Detoh Rie has spent the past five days hiding in a swamp with his children one among thousands of South Sudanese forced to flee their homes as renewed violence threatens to return the nation to war.
When clashes erupted on Friday last week between forces loyal to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and those who back South Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar in the country’s oil-rich Unity State, Rie wasted no time in grabbing his children and running for their lives.
“The soldiers attacked our villages and burnt many of our houses. They took our cows and goats and they killed
United Nations and local officials say thousands of civilians have been displaced in Leer County of Unity State following clashes between the SPLA-IO faction allied to First Vice President Riek Machar and armed young men allied to the SPLA-IO faction led by Simon Gatwech in the area late last week; A lawmaker representing Yirol East County in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly says five parties in the South Sudan Opposition Alliance have not been consulted or asked to nominate candidates for the command structure of South Sudan’s unified forces; Authorities in Unity state’s Mayom County say more than 50 inmates jailed for what officials term petty crimes have been pardoned and set free by the state governor.