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18 July 2014 - Completing a three-month intensive training in munitions disposal, basic life support and emergency trauma, 19 South Sudanese police officers graduated today at Rajaf complex outside Juba. The course for the…

18 July 2014 - President Salva Kiir has inaugurated several projects in the Western Bahr El-Ghazal capital Wau, including two county headquarters, a maternity ward, blood bank and museum. The headquarters were for Wau County…

16 July 2014 - Deeply concerned by escalating crises in Sudan and South Sudan, the top UN relief official warned today that the humanitarian situation was deteriorating for hundreds of thousands of people in both countries.…

14 July 2014 - In an urgent effort to prevent cholera from spreading within the UNMISS Malakal Protection of Civilians (PoC) site and surrounding areas, the mission today began draining stagnant water in the camp. Ongoing…

11 July 2014 - U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Susan Page today led a high-level delegation to the UNMISS base in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal to assess the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) seeking shelter…

10 July 2014 - The African Union (AU) General Assembly today extended by three months the mandate of its Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan to allow for more extensive consultations, a statement issued by the AU in the…

9 July 2014 - The real humanitarian heroes in South Sudan were the country’s citizens who were doing everything possible to assist fellow citizens in need, the Acting Humanitarian Coordinator Sue Lautze said in a statement…

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Raisedon Zenenga, UN Police Commissioner Fred Yiga and UNMISS Human Rights Director Ibrahim Wani meeting South Sudan National Police Service leadership in Juba to explain…

9 July 2014 - There were repeated calls for peace and security to prevail in the country as hundreds of people gathered in the capitals of South Sudan’s ten states to celebrate the third Independence Day anniversary…

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…

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 Juba today as the…

9 July 2014 - As South Sudan celebrates its third independence anniversary today, the top UN official yesterday reminded the country’s political leaders that the ongoing crisis is man-made and that it is their responsibility…