Statement by Alice Jacobs, UK Deputy Political Coordinator at the UN, at the Security Council debate on Sudan and South Sudan, Oct 22, 2020(SSNN) — Thank you Mr President and thank you to both for your comprehensive updates. I would like to start by welcoming the improvements in bilateral relations between the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan. The United […]
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Nov 17th, 2019 (SSNN) — In its bimonthly bulletin report released on Friday, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect urges the international community and the region to exert sustained diplomatic pressure on South Sudan’s government and all opposition groups to implement all critical pending components of the peace agreement. The global R2P’s watchdog highlighted that despite the signing […]
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The Sentry and Enough Project Statement: Nov 15th, 2019 (SSNN)-The latest postponement in South Sudan of the formation of a government of national unity for another 100 days, along with the lack of implementation of key aspects of the peace accord, demonstrates the inadequacy of current efforts to promote peace in the country. Ad hoc emergency diplomacy and vague threats […]
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Nov 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-The global leading information and analysis provider on food insecurity, The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-NET) has warned that “an estimated 4.5 million people are likely to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity during the October 2019 to January 2020 harvesting period in the presence of planned humanitarian food assistance.” In […]
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Opinion, The Global Fund Nov 4th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan is one of the most ‘challenging operating environments’ in the Global Fund portfolio. The Global Fund is a key development partner, providing 31% of HIV, 64% of TB and 39% of malaria funding across the 2018-2020 NFM2 period. Despite significant challenges in terms of political stability, economic dependence on oil and […]
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July 10, 2019(SSNN) —The African Union High-Level Ad Hoc Committee for South Sudan (C5) comprising its Members namely, South Africa, as Chair, Algeria, Chad, Nigeria and Rwanda, convened its meeting in Niamey, Niger, on 6 July 2019, at the ministerial level, on the margins of the inaugural African Union-Regional Economic Communities Coordination Summit. The meeting was in follow up to […]
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June 23rd 2019 (SSNN) – The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 19th decided to come up with some celebration on the situation on Sudan and South Sudan. Below is the communique of the 68th extra-ordinary session. The IGAD Council of Ministers held its 68th Extra-Ordinary Session on 19 June 2019 in Addis Ababa […]
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Part 2, By Ali el Ali Ismail, Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, May 21st, 2019(SSNN) — The Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly documented the South Sudanese government’s arbitrarily arrest and detention of those perceived to be opponents in official and unofficial NSS facilities across the country. Though the government has been repeatedly been warned against the practice, it does not […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019(SSNN) — The IGAD Council of Ministers held its 67th Extra-Ordinary Session on 7th May 2019 in Juba, South Sudan, under the chairmanship of H.E. Gedu Andargachew, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to deliberate on the status of the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South […]
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Violent Kleptocracy Series: East & Central Africa
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By: Moses John; Philip Wilmot; Nicholas Zaremba, Nov 26, 2018(SSNN) — Since the outbreak of civil war in December 2013, South Sudan has endured one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern times. Still, amid the constant threat of war-related violence and economic hardship, South Sudanese activists are managing to launch and sustain nonviolent movements to address the social, political, […]
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