Informes

Situation Update A total of 3,263 cholera cases including 79 deaths (CFR 2.4%) had been reported in South Sudan as of 10 July 2014, as summarized in Tables 1 and 2

KHARTOUM - Torrential rains and the ensuing floods swept away 424 villages in Sinja locality in the eastern Sudan state of Sennar on Monday. In the Northern State, a massive fire that broke out on Tuesday…

EL SALAM CAMP - A sudden high fever has caused the death of three displaced in El Salam camp, near South Darfur’s capital of Nyala. The causes are unknown. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, camp sheikh Mahjoub Adam…

KORMA - A man was killed in an attack by militiamen on the village of Sandeigo, near Korma in North Darfur on Tuesday. “Government-backed militiamen shot Mohamed Ali Handal (41) on Tuesday, when they were on their…

Today is South Sudan’s Independence Day – the country’s third. It’s a day of mixed emotions. For the last six months, South Sudan has been plunged into violence and chaos. Over a million children and their families have…

Today marks the third anniversary of South Sudan’s independence. Since that hard-won achievement, the celebration has been tragically short-lived. The world’s youngest country was fragile and underdeveloped, but making the first steps of progress when violent…

9 July 2014 - The South Sudanese people voted in the referendum to become “first class citizens” in their own country, but were now at risk of losing that freedom, President Salva Kiir Mayardit said in…

9 July 2014 - Even before the crisis, many South Sudanese people saw no reason to celebrate independence, internally displaced persons (IDPs) said in Juba recently, ahead of today’s third independence anniversary celebrations. As the country commemorated…

Comments on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in South Sudan from 6 to 15 November 2013. The Government of South Sudan expresses its appreciation to the visit…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyani, visited South Sudan from 6 to 15 November 2013. This was the Mandate’s first visit to the country after its independence in…