By Okech Francis Rights groups including the South Sudan Human Rights Defenders Network, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are demanding authorities in South Sudan to urgently advance and implement a comprehensive human rights agenda to improve the human rights in the country and address impunity, end repression and ensure rights protection. In an emailed […]
By Ruot George South Sudan national security has arrested a group of suspected robbers, notorious for snatching people’s properties in the capital Juba. Those arrested are suspected to be part of a group, nicknamed “Toronto” who ride motorcycles at high speed while preying on road users for their properties. They snatch off valuables such as […]
By Tapeng Michael Ohure South Sudan has lifted a COVID-19 partial lockdown placed in December last year after new infections have drastically reduced. The lockdown was instituted last year after a surge in the virus. It was lifted on Wednesday after reassessing the situation as improving, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Health, Victoria Anib, […]
By Ruot George Aid workers at Maban County hospital in Upper Nile State have have returned to work after a two-day strike over salaries. The group went on strike on January 31, also demanding for better working conditions from the Dutch international charity group Cordaid which employed them. It all started when some staffs were […]
By Chondok Stephen Magei Flood waters are subsiding in South Sudan but malaria is taking toll in some of the worst hit areas. More ground is being recovered after the floods in Unity State but stagnant ponds of water have become hotbed breeding spots for mosquitoes, the carriers of the parasite. In Unity State capital […]
By Chondok Stephen Magei A teenager has beaten her uncle’s wife to death after a disagreement on who should collect food distribution provided by aid organizations. The deceased, a 24-year-old breastfeeding mother had been having unending confrontations with the 17-year-old girl on who was responsible for collecting the distributions at the Internally Displaced People’s camp […]
By Ambrose Achuil Garang A truck transporting 40 tons of food aid has overturned in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and caught fire. The incident occurred along Kuom road in Aweil town on Wednesday morning. The truck was carrying food assortments including sorghum, cooking oil, Plumbynut and nutrition flour. According to the spokesman of the Traffic […]
By Ruot George Oil companies operating in South Sudan will not be immune to prosecution if an environmental audit implicates them in contributing to environmental pollution, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Joseph Africano Bartel, said. Consortiums exploiting crude oil in South Sudan include Dar Petroleum operating companies (DPOC), Greater Pioneer Operating […]
By WHO in South Sudan Kai Koang, at the crack of dawn on a Tuesday morning, armed with his loud megaphone tightly held to his mouth and moving from house-to-house, stormed site D of the highly populated Bentiu internally displaced persons (IDP) camp passing on good news – on the commencement of the oral cholera […]
By Staff Writer South Sudan Human Rights Defenders Network (SSHRDN) has donated an assortment of digital equipment aimed at boosting the work of its members across the East African nation. The donated items included state-of-the-art laptops and mobile phones. James Bidal, the head of SSHRDN secretariat, said the digital equipment support program would enable human […]