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“We still have more questions than answers in our minds,” admits Peter Boscoe Lotyang, the Speaker of Parliament for Kapoeta in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region. The revitalized peace agreement, signed in September 2018…

In the past two years, frequent incidents of child abductions have become a security threat in Torit, Kapoeta and other parts of the Eastern Equatoria region. Civil society organizations have therefore called for an inter…

The bright Juba sunrise rays blast through the sprawling rickety structures that form the UN protection site, adjacent to the Organization’s base in the South Sudanese capital. For Nyamuon, Nyachoat and Nyaliep, it is the…

“We are tired. We are losing our husbands, we are losing our children. How long are we going to talk about peace?” cries Alice Senna Philip, as she sits alongside other weeping women in a dark, humid tukul (hut) in the heart…

Sand has been piled up. Gravel is on the ready. A water tank is full. Some building blocks have been stacked up to one side, while others are being laid orderly, one on top of the other and smoothened with plaster. A handful…

The Deputy Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for humanitarian affairs and 50 high-level delegates from the international donor community have been in Wau to assess the humanitarian situation in the area. The one…

Returnees in Torit area’s Pajok have appealed to South Sudanese authorities to bring services nearer and protect them from any imminent risk, so they can enjoy the dividends of the revitalized peace agreement, signed in Addis…

Women in South Sudan’s Amadi area have jointly called on the Government of South Sudan to fully implement the provision that guarantees 35% representation for women in the power-sharing arrangement, in accordance with the…

Sixteen years ago, a young newlywed Indian soldier was sent with his unit to the fairly remote state of Assam in the north eastern part of the country. With no electricity and little to do after completing the team’s…

Excited little voices chant welcome messages as the head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) arrives at Mayen Gumel Primary School, located in the town of Kuajok, in north-western South Sudan. Some have those messages…

Twenty-five years ago, in 1994, Celine Kalingirwa was just being born in Rwanda, fondly known as the land of a thousand hills. She was just three months old when a bloody conflict consumed her country, leaving over one…

“When will the Transitional Government of National Unity be formed?” asks Professor Majok Yen, a youth representative, who lives in a UN protection of civilians site in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. He has been displaced for…