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- Saturday 18 May 2013
May 17, 2013 (BENTIU) - Five Unity state policemen and one soldier were killed in Buoth district of Koch county on Friday in an attack local authorities have blamed on youth from neighbouring Mayom county.
The incident follows tension (...)
- Thursday 28 March 2013
March 27, 2013 (BOR) - Participants in a women’s only peace conference in South Sudan’s Jonglei state took the drastic step of saying they would leave their homes and refrain from child bearing if men in their communities continued to (...)
- Sunday 24 February 2013
February 24, 2013 (BOR) - South Sudan’s vice president, Riek Machar, has urged Murle community elders and leaders to persuade their young men siding with David Yau Yau to desert his rebellion.
During a visit to Jonglei’s capital Bor on (...)
- Wednesday 20 February 2013
February 19, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Fresh inter-clan clashes erupted in Rumbek East county of Lakes state on Tuesday, are reported to have killed four people and left three people wounded, according the local sources in the troubled central (...)
- Tuesday 26 March 2013
March 25, 2013 (JUBA/BOR) – The United States’ envoy to South Sudan has urged officials and communities in Jonglei state to end provocative rhetoric against other tribal groups and instead focus on finding remedies to the conflict in the (...)
- Saturday 23 February 2013
February 22, 2013 (JUBA) – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has publicly admitted it failed to detect rebel attackers and provide early warning to at risk civilians in Jonglei state, the special representative of the (...)
- Tuesday 12 March 2013
By Julius N. Uma
March 11, 2013 (JUBA) – Violence in South Sudan is likely to internally displace about 200,000 people, while up to 350,000 refugees, mainly from Sudan are expected into the country this year, the United Nations said (...)
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