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 - 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 country commemorated its third Independence Day anniversary.

Juba, 8 July 2014 - In her final action as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson delivered the following remarks at a press encounter held in Juba International Airport this afternoon.