The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has voiced grave concern over mounting evidence of gross human rights abuses in the strife-torn country, including extra-judicial killings of civilians and captured soldiers, massive displacements and arbitrary detentions, often on
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South Sudan’s Army Signs Agreement to Release Child Soldiers
The Sudanese People’s Liberation Army of South Sudan (SPLA) today signed an agreement with the United Nations renewing its commitment to release all children within its ranks. It had previously agreed orally to release the child soldiers in 2009, but…
Ending the Violence in South Sudan
The top United Nations envoy in South Sudan today urged an immediate end to the cycle of ethnic violence in the newly independent nation, and called on the Government to hold the perpetrators to account and to deploy more forces…
The World’s Newest Capital City
By propertyprof
If Southern Sudan votes to cut off ties with the North, Juba will become the world's newest capital. The good folks at Foreign Policy have posted some photos of this city of 250,000. Giving this a property angle, The New York…
South Sudan Has World’s Highest Maternal Mortality Rate
Not a happy mother’s day story. Reuters: Battling to take death out of birth in Africa, by Skye Wheeler:JUBA, Sudan, May 11 (Reuters) – Lying on a sagging mattress and wincingslightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she…