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Unrelenting rain is keeping rivers and wetlands at record highs throughout the year, with devastating consequences

PANO - Colonel Vu Thi Kim Oanh, Assistant to the Area Affairs Department of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Department, has just finished her task as a military observer at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

An 11-year-old boy who went missing while travelling to Sudan at the peak of the South Sudan conflict in 2015 was over the weekend reunited with his family in Unity State.

Download logoInterconnected shocks have had a devastating impact on the most vulnerable, said the UN humanitarian office, OCHA. “This funding will support

The United Kingdom has announced sanctions against two county commissioners in South Sudan’s Unity State for alleged involvement in the perpetration of sexual violence.

Foreign Secretary has announced sanctions that targets corrupt actors, those violating human rights, and as perpetrators of sexual-violence in conflict.

South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said

UN experts attending the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) conference in London have said that if the Government of South Sudan is serious about tackling sexual violence, it should immediately remove from office and investigate governors and county commissioners credibly alleged to be complicit in systematic rape.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication.

Abuses also include beheadings and people being burned alive in the Greater Upper Nile region, the commission says