After more than six years of conflict, South Sudan remains one of the most food-insecure countries in the world. Ongoing violence, resultant population displacement, and disrupted trade, markets, and cultivation activities have exacerbated food insecur…
Delegations from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan continue to negotiate water usage issues relating to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam being built on the Nile River. Following two days of meetings in Washington, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a state…
Dakar: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Africa this weekend as the first U.S. cabinet official to visit in more than 18 months, and he is certain to face questions about the U.S. military’s future on the continent and new U.S. visa restriction…
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press.The reports a…
Members Should Have Awaited Clear Consent from Parties, Russian Federation’s Representative Says, Citing Rush to AdoptionThe Security Council endorsed the conclusions of the 19 January Berlin Conference on Libya today, emphasizing the vital importance …
Some Sudanese living inside and outside of their country are praising an agreement that could send former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court for trial, saying it would be an important step toward justice in the Darfur…
The Security Council today extended until 12 March 2021 the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the sanctions regime on Sudan, but some Council members urged the 15-member organ to consider lifting the restrictive measures.Unanimously adopting re…
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday was named the top “spoiler of peace” in a new award that seeks to shame him and others into taking serious steps to end bloody conflict in the world’s youngest country.Kiir and rival leader Riek Machar are und…
Uganda scrambled to respond to the arrival of the biggest locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in decades, while the United Nations warned Monday that “we simply cannot afford another major shock” to an already vulnerable region.An emer…
Uganda scrambled to respond to the arrival of the biggest locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in decades, while the United Nations warned Monday that “we simply cannot afford another major shock” to an already vulnerable region.An emer…
While armed conflict has declined in South Sudan since the warring parties signed a peace agreement in September 2018, implementation of the deal is lagging, the political situation remains fragile, and millions remain displaced both inside and outside…
From November 2017 to December 2019, UNHCR in partnership with South Sudan’s Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) estimates some 235,802 South Sudanese refugees have returned to South Sudan spontaneously or in self-organized manner. To learn more…
HIGHLIGHTS UN reports increasing violence against humanitarian personnel GoRSS and WHO launch countrywide measles vaccination campaign Flood-related infrastructure damage continues to delay aid distributionsKEY DEVELOPMENTS Humanitarian non-governmenta…
The annual African Union summit opened Sunday with leaders vowing that the AU would play a more prominent role in resolving conflicts proliferating across the continent.The theme of the two-day summit is “Silencing the Guns.The focus on conflicts marks…
The annual African Union summit opened Sunday with leaders vowing that the AU would play a more prominent role in resolving conflicts proliferating across the continent.The theme of the two-day summit is “Silencing the Guns.The focus on conflicts marks…
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday was named the top “spoiler of peace” in a new award that seeks to shame him and others into taking serious steps to end bloody conflict in the world’s youngest country.Kiir and rival leader Riek Machar are und…
OVERVIEWPugnido is the oldest refugee camp in the Gambella Region of Western Ethiopia. Pugnido hosts South Sudan refugees who arrived in different waves � since 1993, in 2012 and following post-December 2013 conflicts in the country of origin.RECENT DE…
OVERVIEWKule Refugee Camp was established in May 2014 in response to the major refugee influx from South Sudan; it was not fully stabilized until 2016. The camp has now reached its full capacity, but the shortage of shelters remains a major challenge.R…
A United Nations official has told VOA that the organization is reducing its aid to areas controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in northern Yemen because of the group’s restrictions on humanitarian operations in a country that is said to have the wor…
At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. But their time will come. Small and wingless, th…
Baghdad – Iraq ranked sixth for the strongest Arab armies this year.Global firepower stated that according to fifty Arab indicators, the Egyptian army ranked first while it ranked 10th globally. Saudi Arabia and Algeria ranked second and third respecti…
2,216,652* South Sudanese refugees in the region as of 31 December 2019 (preand post-Dec 2013 caseload).74,947* South Sudanese refugee arrivals in 2019, with 5,015 new refugee arrivals in December 2019.298,313 Refugees in South Sudan with 92 per cent f…
Protracted conflict in South Sudan has led to a perpetual state of humanitarian crisis. Although there has been a lull in large-scale hostilities over the past year, localized violence has persisted in many pockets of the country. The Equatoria Region …
In January, the monthly population count was conducted at Cathedral, Nazareth, St. Joseph, Lokoloko and Masna collective centres where a total of 10,414 individuals were identified. This compares to an overall collective centre population of 11,828 in …
The Abyei Administrative Region remains a contested area between Sudan and South Sudan. 2019 was marked by an increased number of security incidents. Violent clashes in Kolom on 22 January 2020 left 33 people killed, 18 wounded, 15 children missing, an…
With a Feb. 22 deadline fast approaching for South Sudan’s rival leaders to form a unity government, there is still no agreement on how many states the country will have or their boundaries.The chief mediator in talks aimed at ending the stalemate chai…
U.N. officials say human rights conditions in South Sudan are deteriorating as a February 22 deadline for creating a transitional unity government draws near.Three U.N. human rights commissioners who wrapped up their eighth mission to South Sudan on Fr…
1. KEY HIGHLIGHTSa. Five alerts were reported in this period, four from Source Yubu Tambura and one from Yei. Three of the alerts were discarded following investigations since they did not meet case definition. Two had samples collected (one from Yei a…
Following consultations with the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG), Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), and all agencies, please find below the daily labor wages of 4.25, 5.6, 7.1 USD converted to SSP as per the UN exchange rate of 161.099 SSP per U…
SITE UPDATESNational CCCM ClusterThe National Cluster participated to the HCT-UNMISS Task Team visit in Bentiu to provide technical support to field actors on developing site-specific future plan by integrating site-specific risks, indicators, attribut…
