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…