July 16, (SSNN) – Two aid workers in South Sudan were shot dead along with four people they were helping after members of an unknown armed group attacked them early this week, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country said Thursday. South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for humanitarian workers even after the country’s […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations has condemned this week’s attack by Murle on areas o Lou Nuer in South Sudan’s Jonglei state that has killed a number of aid workers. At least three aid workers were killed in intense clashes in South Sudan over the weekend, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Dozens of people have been killed after armed youth from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area attacked a number of villages in Jonglei’s Greater Akobo, residents there said this afternoon. “There was an attack this morning. The attackers come from Murle areas and many people have been killed and the fighting has since subsidized. I don’t […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been asked by a group of intellectuals from Jonglei state to create another administrative area there. This came after the presidency issued a communique in which it said Jonglei state, alongside Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Western Equatoria, will be allocated to the SPLM-IO as part of a provision […]
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