16 April 2013 -- Seeking shelter from the sweltering sun, tens of ex-combatants sat under mango trees across the Greater Bahr El-Ghazal region on a recent afternoon. The trees were heavily laden with fruit that would soon ripen, an apt symbol of the process that the ex-combatants are about to undergo as members of the initial group of South Sudanese to participate in their country’s first disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.  

13 April 2013 - A delegation of senior UN officials led by Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support Anthony Banbury visited the Jonglei State capital of Bor today in the aftermath of last Tuesday’s ambush on an UNMISS convoy that killed a dozen peacekeepers and civilians.