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UK sends troops to famine, war-stricken South Sudan

May 3, 2017 Geraldine Boechat 0

United Kingdom troops on Tuesday arrived in South Sudan to provide engineering and medical support to the United Nations Mission (UNMISS) in the famine and […]

Japan troops exit from S. Sudan peacekeeping mission

April 18, 2017 Steven Addamah 0

A contingent of Japanese troops has departed from South Sudan on Monday from U.N. peacekeeping mission in the famine and war-stricken nation. According to Reuters, […]

Six aid workers killed in South Sudan

March 27, 2017 Steven Addamah 0

Six aid workers from a national non-governmental organization were killed when their convoy was ambushed Saturday while travelling along the Government-controlled area on the Juba-Pibor […]

UNMISS Boss Sacking: Kenya Withdraws all Troops

November 3, 2016 Steven Addamah 0

Kenya on Wednesday said it is shocked at the decision of the UN secretary-general to sack the Kenyan commander of the UN peacekeeping force in […]

UNMISS Boss in South Sudan Sacked

November 2, 2016 Steven Addamah 0

The commander of the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in South Sudan has been sacked on Tuesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office said. The move follows a […]

Dutch Major General to Oversee UN Investigation in Juba

August 24, 2016 Steven Addamah 0

The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on Tuesday, appointed a retired Dutch Major General to lead a months’ independent probe into the July 2016 violence […]

U.S. Sends 47 Soldiers to Protect US Interests in South Sudan

July 14, 2016 Steven Addamah 0

United States’ President Obama has ordered 47 U.S. troops to South Sudan to help protect the American embassy in the country, days after an outbreak […]

South Sudanese leaders have failed their people, Ban Ki-Moon

July 12, 2016 Geraldine Boechat 0

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon on Monday said South Sudanese leaders have failed their people in the wake of renewed fighting in the […]

South Sudan’s Civil War Restarts, Riek Machar Attacked

July 11, 2016 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Violence erupted again in South Sudan’s capital on Monday a day after the UN Security Council urged President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar to […]