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Women and girls are more than one million of the two million people currently displaced within South Sudan. Latest information filtering out of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says they are at high risk of gender-based violence and forced and child marriage.

The governor of Unity State, Dr. Joseph Monytuil Wejang, has called for the disarmament of the population to mitigate amplified crime, gender-based violence, rape, inter-communal violence, and cattle rustling in the state.

BENTIU, South Sudan – “I used to collect firewood, make charcoal, and sell fresh milk to help meet our family's needs,” Nyachar Gatneay Rial, 38, told UNFPA. “Now I have to sell tea in the local market to earn some money.” 

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan says that dozens of people have recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual attacks in a volatile county in South Sudan

South Sudan is also facing a fourth year of unprecedented flooding that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and sparked clashes between farming and herding communities.

UN condemns violence against civilians, aid workers in South Sudan-

Dozens of people have recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual attacks in a volatile county in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said Monday. The mission said it documented 72 civilian deaths between Feb. 17 and April 7 in&#x2...

Additional peacekeepers have been deployed to Leer county, South Sudan, following a surge of violence, including rapes, gang rapes, beheadings, burning

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Dozens of people have recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual attacks in a volatile county in South

696 Ghanaian peacekeepers receive UN medals for their outstanding service in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).