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Addressing the growing risks of famine and attacks on humanitarian personnel in conflict situations Statement by Sonia Farrey, UK Political Coordinator at the UN, at the Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict From: Thank you, Mr President, and thank you to all of our briefers. I would like to make three main points today: First, there is an urgent need to address the impacts of conflict on access to healthcare, particularly in the light of the current ...

Another aid worker killed in South Sudan Publication : 25 mai 2021 May 24, 2021 (JUBA) - A second humanitarian worker was killed in the Unity State of South Sudan in less than two weeks, an aid group and the UN spokesperson said on Monday.     En poursuivant votre navigation, vous acceptez le dépôt de cookies tiers destinés à vous proposer des vidéos, des boutons de partage, des remontées de contenus de plateformes sociales. En savoir plus PARAMETRAGE Cookies fonctionnels ...

South Sudan aid doctor killed in cold blood Published: 9:17 PM, May 24, 2021 JUBA SHARE A South Sudanese doctor was murdered in the northern, oil-rich Unity State, and colleagues threatened Sunday to go on strike if those responsible are not found. The murder, which took place last week, follows the killing of a nurse in April in Eastern Equatoria, a south-eastern state. On Sunday, a statement released by The South Sudan Doctors Union (SSDU), said it wa...

Title Daily Noon Briefing Highlights: Afghanistan - Democratic Republic of the Congo - occupied Palestinian territory - South Sudan 24 May 2021 Body Young girls and their family displaced by violence and conflict in a village near Kandahar, Afghanistan (November 2019). © OCHA/Charlotte Cans Daily Noon Briefing Highlights – 24 May 2021 Afghanistan The UN, national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Afghanistan today reaffirmed their commitment to stay an...

South Sudan: UN condemns killing of one aid worker and attack against humanitarian convoy in Unity State Format (Juba, 23 May 2021) The Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Alain Noudéhou, strongly condemns the brutal killing of an aid worker in Panyijiar County, Unity State, on 21 May, and the horrific attack against a clearly-marked humanitarian convoy, including an ambulance, in a separate incident reported on the same day, a few kilometres away, in Koch. “I am appalled by this horrif...

Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Alain Noudéhou [Photo: UN] The Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Alain Noudéhou, has condemned yesterday’s attack on humanitarian workers in Renk, Upper Nile. The attacks follow similar incidents barely two weeks ago in Torit, Eastern Equatoria, and Jamjang, Ruweng Administrative Area. The Humanitarian Coordinator said that a continuation of these violent incidents would make it impossible for humanitarians to carry out their work for vulnerab...

Calm returns to Mayom after 7 killed, over 100 cattle stolen Authorities in Mayom County of South Sudan’s Unity State say the security situation had returned to normalcy after seven bodyguards of Mayom county commissioner were killed in an ambush on Sunday. James Chuol Gatluak, Mayom county commissioner, told Radio Tamazuj on Monday that his bodyguards were sent to recover over 100 stolen cattle by armed youth from neighboring Warrap State.  “My seven bodyguards were killed and three other...

Discharged ex-SSPDF Gen. Stephen Buay joins Gen. Malong’s SSUF General Stephen Buay Rolnyang, who was in August 2019 stripped of his rank and discharged from the South Sudan Peoples Defense Forces (SSPDF), on Monday declared that he had joined Gen. Paul Malong’s South Sudan United Front/Army (SSUF/A). The litany of reasons he gave for joining SSUF ranged from an attack on a cattle camp in his village to the usurpation of power in Juba by the Sudanese National Congress Party (NCP), poor wel...

South Sudan Displacement Crisis: Nyal Port Monitoring - Panyijiar County, Unity State, South Sudan (March 2021) Format CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY Nyal town is located in Northern Panyijiar County, Unity State, along the banks of the Sudd, one of the largest swamps in the world. Nyal is a key location for people travelling to and from Central and Southern Unity and nearby islands. Since the start of the crisis, internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Unity and Jonglei States have often sought temp...

English Assessment on South Sudan about Education, Food and Nutrition, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 29 Apr 2021 by REACH