8 May 2014- It is vital for parties to the conflict in South Sudan to abandon their current determination to pursue military option and engage in the peace process in good faith, a new UNMISS human rights report released today says.

Juba, 8 May 2014 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has today released a public report on the gross violations of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law that have occurred since the conflict in the world’s newest nation began on 15 December 2013.

6 May 2014 - More than 11,000 people escaping violence in Nasir, Upper Nile State, have fled across the Ethiopian border in the last 72 hours, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said today.