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Severe food insecurity and conflict continued to affect vulnerable people in April. Some 7.2 million people are estimated to be severely food insecure, including 108,000 people in hard-to-reach areas facing catastrophic conditions. Food prices increased significantly in April due to insecurity along the main Nimule-Juba supply route from Uganda. Findings from an inter-agency needs assessment in Tonj North County, Warrap, confirmed the urgent needs of more than 31,000 food-insecure people displaced by sub-national violence. Armed fighting between organized armed groups and state security force...

South Sudan: Humanitarian Snapshot (April 2021) Format Severe food insecurity and conflict continued to affect vulnerable people in April. Some 7.2 million people are estimated to be severely food insecure, including 108,000 people in hard-to-reach areas facing catastrophic conditions. Food prices increased significantly in April due to insecurity along the main Nimule-Juba supply route from Uganda. Findings from an inter-agency needs assessment in Tonj North County, Warrap, confirmed the urgent needs of more than 31,000 food-insecure people displaced by sub-national violence. Armed fighting ...

Daily Monitor Friday May 07 2021 President Museveni talks to one of the technocrats during the groundbreaking ceremony for rehabilitation of Tororo-Gulu Railway line in Gulu District last year as EU ambassador Attilio Pacifici (2nd left) and other officials look on. PHOTO/courtesy Summary Speaker Rebecca Kadaga acknowledged the changes and referred the revised request for scrutiny by Parliament’s Committee on National Economy. Advertisement Mr David Bahati, the State Minister for Planning, submitted the request for consideration by MPs on Wednesday. He said €216.71m is to be borrowed from...

Four Kenyan long-distance cargo truck drivers and two turn-men have reportedly been kidnapped by unknown gunmen at Terekeka town in South Sudan, media reports in Uganda indicate. The town is located on the Western bank of the Nile, 53 miles North of the capital Juba, the Daily Monitor adds. It is said the kidnappers are demanding 15 million South Sudan pounds in exchange for the freedom of the captives. Besides the Kenyans, a Ugandan truck driver identified as Vincent Mulika, alias Kamanda, is battling for his life at Juba Referral Hospital after he was allegedly beaten into coma by mil...

Daily Monitor Saturday May 01 2021 Vincent Mulika alias Kamanda, the Uganda cargo truck driver allegedly beaten at Terekeka checkpoint in South Sudan, receives treatment at the hospital. Photo | Courtesy Summary He becomes the latest Ugandan truck driver to fall victim of the attacks along the Nimule-Juba highway which are mainly targeting foreign cargo drivers from the neighbouring East African countries plying the route. The highway is a lifeline for South Sudan, which imports almost everything, and for people travelling to Uganda. Advertisement A Ugandan truck driver identified as Vincent ...