Without tackling impunity, South Sudan will not stem pervasive violence, and horrific human rights violations and abuses, a UN inquiry said in a new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It details how perpetrators of the most serious crimes, including widespread attacks against civilians and extrajudicial killings, remain unpunished. Senior government officials and military…
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Uganda drops charges of illegal gun possession against South Sudanese General.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0923 EAT on Thursday 16th March 2023. South Sudan People’s Liberations Army (SPLA) Lieutenant General William Mark Orobi has been freed by the Uganda Army court and charges of unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition dropped. Orobi first appeared before former Army court chairperson Lt Gen Andrew Gutti on August…
South Sudan’s president calls on refugees to return home
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has urged the country’s more than 2 million refugees to return home in his first meeting with displaced people since civil war erupted almost a decade ago. Kiir’s appeal on Wednesday came as the country prepares to hold its first elections since gaining independence in 2011. South Sudan’s elections are…
“To violate the fundamental rights of any woman or man is an offence against Christ.” Pope in South Sudan urges people to reject ‘venom of hatred’
By Cecilia Macaulay Pope Francis has ended his peace pilgrimage to South Sudan by celebrating an open air mass attended by tens of thousands in Juba. He urged the congregation to reject what he called the “venom of hatred”, and told them to lose no opportunity to build peace. And he pleaded with the country’s…
Inter-tribal conflict displaces 70,000 in Sudan’s Blue Nile state
Updated on Friday 28th October 2022 (WAD ALMAHI) – At least 70,000 people have been displaced from Sudan’s Blue Nile state as a result of inter-tribal conflict since mid-July, the International Organization for Migration Displacement Tracking Matrix (IOM-DTM) indicates. The displaced are currently sheltering in the neighbouring Sennar, White Nile state. Blue Nile state had…
UN report says 173 civilians killed in four months in South Sudan
Follow us on our social media “HICGI News Agency” 173 civilians have been killed, 12 injured, and 37 women and children abducted in South Sudan’s Unity State, according to a new joint report published by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights….
HRW urges release of two South Sudanese arrested for government criticism.
Both men face the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted of undermining the country’s constitution. Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1747 EAT on Wednesday 9/03/2022. Global watchdog Human Rights Watch has called for the release of a clergyman and a university professor in South Sudan, both detained since last year for criticising the…
Religious Tumult Triggered Birth of a New Nation- M7, Bush, Obama & Vatican behind South Sudan Peace Deal.
BY JUSTIN LYNCH, E K BENJ & ROBBIE GRAMER . South Sudan’s latest peace deal will likely not stop the country’s bloody conflict, according to more than a dozen officials and experts, raising questions about the seriousness of the international community’s effort to end a brutal cycle of violence in the East African nation. Diplomats…
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