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NGOs to resume work in Renk today Local authorities in Renk County, Upper Nile State, said that humanitarian organizations will resume work today 15 March after a hiatus of more than five months after the youth there demanded jobs and burned some NGO facilities last year. The Executive Director of Renk County, Anyang Agou, said in a statement to Radio Tamazuj Sunday that the organizations will resume their activities in providing humanitarian and health services to citizens after concerned part...

Bentius oil refinery starts operations South Sudan has started to operate its Bentius oil refinery in Unity State, with a capacity to refine 10, 000 barrels per day (bpd), the deputy managing director of the firm that built the refinery said. Bentiu’s refinery is a joint venture by Russia’s Safinat and the state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet). The refinery which was built at a cost of $100 million is one of the five refineries, which will have a total refining capacity of 127,0...

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7 killed in Koch County, Unity State At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in an attack in Koch County of Unity State on Tuesday, a local official said.  “Last month, a group of youth from Koch County raided cows from Rubkona County. So as a result, some government troops and the owners of the stolen animals were sent to Koch to recover the cows. But in the process, they were attacked, and seven people, including five soldiers, were killed,” Moses Ruai, the information ...

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What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power mo...

Your browser does not support the audio element. PIBOR, South Sudan  Tucked away behind the bend of a swollen river, an hour and a half by motorboat from the region’s main health centre, local residents in the remote South Sudanese village of Lekuangole say their children are starving to death. There’s the three-year-old son of Ngalan Luryen who died of hunger last February after a week hiding in a forest from militiamen. And there’s the nine-year-old grandson of Anna Korok who lost his ...

news From Ethiopia to Yemen, the dilemma of declaring a famine © Getty Images Conflict has left countless homes in Tigray as debris Every day, more and more reports of starvation trickle out of the Tigray region of Ethiopia that has been hit by conflict. On Wednesday, Mark Lowcock, chief of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations, warned of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in which aid still wasnt reaching many affected people. Earlier in the week, his predecessor Jan Egeland, now he...

Your browser does not support the audio element. The “f-word” has been on the tongues of leading humanitarians a lot lately, with famine found “likely” to be occurring in one area of South Sudan, and – despite a lot of warnings from the United Nations – no famine found thus far in Yemen. But a declaration of famine – or the lack thereof – doesn’t tell the whole story: After years of violent conflict, lives are likely being lost every day in both Yemen and South Sudan from hung...