South Sudan’s President today announced the country will return to 10 states in a bid to end a tense-standoff with opposition parties just a week out from a deadline requiring the formation of a new transitional government.President Salva Kiir made the…
South Sudan’s president said on Saturday he would return to a system of 10 states, a key opposition demand, paving the way for a unity government and an end to the country’s civil war.”The compromise we have just made is in the interest of peace…I e…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has accused several foreign envoys of bias against his government, as the envoys try to help Kiir and the opposition strike a deal on the number of states in the country. The president wants to keep the current 32 sta…
Opposition forces based in the Eastern Equatorian region of South Sudan have pledged to uphold human rights from the command level right through to the rank and file following a workshop hosted by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the conflict…
The return of relative calm to a village in Torit has prompted an influx of people returning to their homes.The Enyif community abandoned their village after a spate of crime, including rape and thefts as well as incidents of communal violence. But the…
Newly elected community leaders at the United Nations protection site in the Wau area have completed training in how to protect vulnerable civilians, mitigate conflict and help resolve disputes.The three-day training, conducted by UNMISS’ Relief, Reint…
Mixed Migration Flow MonitoringReporting PeriodOctober 2019Active Flow Monitoring Networks Burundi 11 FMPsDjibouti 5 FMPsEthiopia 5 FMPsSomalia 7 FMPsSouth Sudan 36 FMPsUganda 14 FMPsA network of 78 Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) are currently operation…
New York: The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding that the warring parties in Libya commit to a lasting ceasefire and condemning the recent increase in violence, with Russia abstaining from the vote.The British-dr…
Manama: His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander, and First Deputy Prime Minister, today met the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, a…
Manama: His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander, and First Deputy Prime Minister, today met the Chairman of the Milken Institute, Michael Milken, and an accompanying delegation, at Gudaibiya Pal…
Following are UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council briefing on Children in armed conflict: introducing practical guidance on the integration of child protection issues in peace processes, in New York today:I am please…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres departed New York for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday evening, 6 February. He arrived on Friday evening.On Saturday, 8 February, he attended a high-level breakfast on Gender Equality and Women’s Emp…
JUBA/NEW YORK Critical programmes providing support for children released from armed forces and groups in South Sudan may be forced to end next month if urgently needed funds are not provided, UNICEF warned today.900 children are already registered for…
Brussels: The close partnerships between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Arab countries have contributed to an improved regional security, a senior official of the alliance has said. As we celebrate the 15th anniversary of the [Istanb…
Khartoum: Sudan’s government has reached an agreement with rebels to hand over disgraced former president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.”The former leaders in Sudan who hav…
The budget request released this week by the White House recommends large cuts to US payments to several United Nations entities. This includes a 53% cut to the World Health Organization, which is at the front line of responding to two major global eme…
The UN chief on Saturday called on the international community to recognize the need for African counter-terrorism operations, backed by the UN Security Council, to tackle the growing threat of extremist violence across the continent, and predictable …
A top South Sudanese opposition official says a unified military force will not be in place by February 22, the deadline for the country’s rival parties to form a transitional unity government.Angelina Teny, who chairs the South Sudan Strategic Defense…
Senior officers from opposition forces living in cantonment sites in the Eastern Equatorian region of South Sudan have received training to help them better understand the laws that protect children caught up in armed conflict.As soldiers we need to kn…
Women and men have equal rights and if we are given that opportunity, I think we will be able to participate fully in governance, and we can do anything that a man can do.That was the view of Abuk Monykuer a participant at a two-day leadership forum or…
A year since the signing of a peace deal between the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 armed groups, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Thursday that millions of children across the country remain threatened by violence a…
The United States will begin enforcing an expanded travel ban on February 21, a move that the Trump administration says is critical to national security. But critics question the rationale behind the amended policy. Myanmar (Burma), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan…
(DJIBOUTI, Djibouti): The President of the Republic of Djibouti, H.E. Ismail Omar Guelleh, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan and Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), H.E. Dr. Abdalla Hamdock, today presid…
Ramallah – together – President Mahmoud Abbas received, on Tuesday evening, a phone call from the High Representative for the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Joseph Borrell.Borrell stressed the position of the European Union in s…
Ululation, dancing and singing marked the start of a long journey for opposition troops as they headed to a training site in Western Equatoria to unite with former foes in the government forces.The soldiers proudly paraded together before gathering up …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the leader of Sudan’s transitional government Monday as part of an effort to begin to normalize ties wth the African nation. Netanyahu and Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan held their talks in Entebbe, Uganda….
U.S. President Donald Trump added six countries to his administration’s travel ban on Jan. 31 Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar (Burma), Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania and Sudan. The amended executive order, which takes effect Feb. 21, still maintains restrictions on s…
Meetings to consider children in armed conflict, as well as transitional justice will be among the significant Security Council events to be held in February, Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve (Belgium), its President for the month, said at a Headquarters pr…
Manama: Service projects across the Southern Governorate are given priority by the Ministerial Committee for Development and Infrastructure Projects, through constant follow-up on their implementation progress to cope with the demographic expansion the…
The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration.Officials said immigrant…
