By Manyuon Mayen Manyuon, Juba The newly elected executive members of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) is set to launch its website on June 12, two weeks after the formation of the new body. It is the first of its kind the Alliance is starting to implement its manifestos as they pledged […]
YECO signpost as it stands along the Yei – Lasu Road | Courtesy Photo Author: Bida Thomas Yei Electric Cooperative (YECO) has stopped the distribution of power in Yei town less than a month after it resumed electricity supply for only seven hours daily at the rate of five hundred (500) South Sudanese Pounds per […]
By John Agok South Sudan’s army General and his bodyguard who exchanged gun fire on Tuesday at army’s Headquarters in Juba are responding well to the treatment as both have been discharged from the Hospital. Dr. Chut Chep, Juba Military Hospital’s Director General told Juba Echo on Wednesday that the two didn’t have fractures instead […]
The South Sudan Civil Society Forum is saying they “discourage” a recent order by authorities in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State directing security organs to shoot to death foreign cattle herders who will resist arrest or fail to leave after seventy-two hours. The cattle herders have been terrorizing communities in the area since late […]
Chadian President Idriss Deby has died of injuries suffered on the frontline, an army spokesman said on Tuesday. This comes a day after Deby won a sixth term, according to an election results released on Monday he , took 79.3 percent. The 68-year-old Deby, militarily had risen to power in 1990 Additional report by BBC […]
By John Agok President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa is expected in Juba in the coming few days to meet with his counterpart President Salva Kiir to continue their bilateral talks geared towards assessing the implementation of South Sudan’s 2018 peace deal, (R-ARCSS) according to president Kiir’s office. Speaking to Media upon arrival at Juba […]
The government of Uganda is advising its nationals to exercise extreme caution as they travel to South Sudan; it adds that those travelling to South Sudan should note that there is violent crime such as carjacking, shootings, ambushes, assaults, robberies, and kidnappings in South Sudan particularly along the Yei road.
The governor of Bank of South Sudan Bank, Dier Tong said “I want to take this opportunity really to correct some misinformation that I saw this morning in the newspaper that there is a cheque of $1.5million that was paid to East Africa and that the cheque bounced. That is misinformation.”
The much-awaited graduation of unified forces to take charge of security during the ongoing transitional period continues to delay due to financial constraints, according to peace monitors. Charles Tai Gituai, head of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) revealed on Wednesday that lack of sufficient funding is delaying the graduation of the necessary […]
2,421 civilians killed by community-based militias in South Sudan in 2020-UNMISS
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says community-based militias were responsible for 78 percent of killings and injuries caused to civilians, abductions and sexual violence during attacks in pockets of South Sudan.
The Annual Brief on Violence Affecting Civilians, released by the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, documented the killing of 2,421 civilians in 2020, more than double the previous year. More than 1,500 people were injured, up from 866.