Fuel tax blocks aid to hunger-ravaged South Sudan, UN says
Juba, South Sudan Reuters South Sudanese authorities are holding up United Nations fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a humanitarian crisis, the UN mission there said. The trucks were held up at depots and the Ugandan border on Wednesday despite assurances from the minister of […]
At least 12 killed, 15 children missing in South Sudan attack
Juba, South Sudan Reuters Youths attacked a village in eastern South Sudan and shot dead at least 12 people while 15 children are missing, officials said on Tuesday, as local conflicts continued to increase ahead of elections late this year. A civil war from 2013-18 caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and although the main […]
New flare-up of local violence in South Sudan kills 15
Juba, South Sudan Reuters Young men shot dead 15 people in South Sudan’s eastern Pibor region, including a county commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, amid a rise in local conflict ahead of a national election due at the end of the year. A civil war that erupted two years after the country won […]
About 40 killed in violence near disputed Sudan-South Sudan border
Juba, South Sudan Reuters About 40 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in violence in a disputed area on South Sudan’s border with Sudan over the weekend, a government official said on Monday. Frequent clashes have taken place in Abyei region between rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group because of a dispute […]
Violence in disputed Sudan-South Sudan border area kills 54
Juba, South Sudan Reuters More than 50 people including women, children and two UN peacekeepers were killed in attacks along South Sudan’s border with Sudan, officials said, the deadliest in a spate of incidents since 2021 related to a boundary dispute. Armed young men from South Sudan’s Warrap State carried out the raids into the […]
Agencies consider new aid route into Sudan as humanitarian crisis worsens
Reuters Aid agencies are looking at delivering aid to Sudan on a new route from South Sudan as they struggle to access much of the country, a senior UN official said on Monday, nine months into a war that has caused a major humanitarian crisis. The war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support […]
Six killed in disputed region bordering Sudan, South Sudan
Juba, South Sudan Reuters Six people including a senior local administrator were killed in an ambush by armed men in the Abyei region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, local officials said. The oil-rich region experiences frequent bouts of violence, where rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group – Twic Dinka from South Sudan’s […]
Ethnic fighting kills 32 in disputed region straddling Sudan, South Sudan
Juba, South SudanReuters Attacks by rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group in an area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 32 people over the weekend, a local official said on Monday. Deadly violence is common in the oil-rich Abyei region, where Twic Dinka from South Sudan’s neighbouring Warrap State are […]
Pope Francis cements legacy, stamps Catholic Church future with new cardinals
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis on Saturday further cemented his legacy, elevating 21 prelates to the high rank of cardinal and significantly raising the percentage of electors chosen by him who will have the right to vote for his successor. At a ceremony in St Peter’s Square known as a consistory, Francis “created” 21 new cardinals, […]
“We have nothing”: South Sudanese refugees, fleeing a second civil war in Sudan, return home to bleak prospects
TONNY ONYULO, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports…