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The governor of Jonglei and officials from the wider region met on Friday for a one-day open security forum in Duk Padiet to promote peace and reconciliation among neighbouring communities in the area. facilitated by the…
It was like a rumble of thunder and flashes of lightning when the “One peace, One people” concert kicked off at the Freedom Square in Yei, with plenty of sweat dripping down the foreheads of thousands of jubilant music lovers…
With less than three months left until the new deadline for forming a unified transitional government for the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan is amassing all the support it can get to make sure the process goes smoothly…
Major Fidel Hawa has been working as a senior corrections officer at the South Sudan Jubilant Centre in the Wau area for years, despite her limited knowledge of gender-specific needs and the human rights of prisoners.…
Agany Malek, a resident in the Awiel Jedid area of Wau and parent of a local primary school pupil, couldn’t hold back his excitement at seeing a pile of new textbooks, teaching materials and extra-curriculum items stacked up…
A recent mission to establish whether there were children in the armed forces in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region has returned a clean scoresheet, as not a single child was found within the ranks of both the opposition…
Before armed conflict erupted in South Sudan in 2013, Reverend John Manyang from the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church was leading five churches in the Unity area. With conflict, came destruction of church property…
Calestina Juuku Alfred, who works as a cashier in Wau’s Ministry of Gender and Child Welfare, had never operated a computer, until recently. ‘’I didn’t know anything about a computer. I used commercial computer centres to…
Governors of Gogrial, Tonj and Wau are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to bring peace among their people, following a long-standing inter-communal conflict spurred by cattle raiding and other forms of violence that…
A community-based rapprochement event saw residents of Juba’s Gumbo-Sherikat neighbourhood converge in one place with the aim of building durable peace together following the signing, in Addis Ababa last year, of a peace…
In the wake of challenges to establish a cantonment site in the Gbudue area for South Sudan’s opposition forces, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Force Commander visited Yambio on Friday, with a high-level…
A fully refurbished women’s rehabilitation centre has been handed over to a local women’s group in Wau, to help empower them politically and economically. Funded by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) through…