“Since the civil war began in South Sudan in December of 2013, the news from one of the world’s newest countries has been consistently gruesome — targeted ethnic killings, rape, kidnappings and disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detentions, recruitment and use of child soldiers, massive social upheaval, millions of hungry people and an economy on the brink of total collapse.”
For the first time, South Sudan could be the most insecure location in the world. At the moment, relief agencies are scaling back their operations in the country after a gang rape attack on foreign aid workers. While many are fleeing, Sudan Relief Fund is committed to staying and helping those in need of humanitarian aid.
According to the Associated Press, more than 80 South Sudanese soldiers beat, robbed, and gang raped 30 foreign aid workers in a Juba hotel. This shocking new attack could have far-reaching consequences for humanitarian efforts in the country, as many expatriate aid workers are evacuating.
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Despite the recent violence, Sudan Relief Fund is choosing to stay and will not be leaving the country. Our passion and desire to help and enhance the well-being of people in South Sudan remains our upmost importance.
More importantly, with the help of our donors, we are successfully helping! Your kind donations have recently provided Sudan Relief Fund the opportunity to provide two life-saving efforts to help the malnourished and deliver medical attention to the ill.
During a time of disaster and despair, more than 26,000 South Sudanese will be given desperately-needed assistance. A total cost of $115,000 has been donated to the people of Juba, who will receive mosquito nets, medicine, and vaccinations for the affected people!
In a separate effort, your generous gifts have also fed nearly 4,000 South Sudanese, after 28 tons of food was successfully delivered on August 13th.
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People and Power investigates the forgotten war taking place on the borders between North and South Sudan.
It’s one of Africa’s most bitter, if often forgotten, conflicts.
In 2011, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan following a 2005 peace deal that ended Africa’s longest-running civil war.
After a referendum, in which an overwhelming majority of South Sudanese voted to secede, Africa’s newest country came into being, the first since Eritrea split from Ethiopia in 1993.
A shipment from Kenya made an emergency food aid delivery to those suffering in South Sudan as the world’s youngest country is teetering on the brink of civil war.
Trucks filled with 28 tons of food made the life-saving delivery early Saturday morning on August 13th to Juba, which was funded by the Sudan Relief Fund. Religious congregations will be organizing the distribution and personally handing out food to an expected 4,000 South Sudanese who come to them for help.
“What a great relief!” said Brother Bernhard Hengl, Development Coordinator of the Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference. “I still cannot believe it, that all worked out well, in spite of insecurity and challenges!”
For security reasons, the trucks were accompanied by police from the Nimule border, and were instructed to pass the bridge and cross the entire town in the dark hours of the night. Just last month, the government issued an order blocking air and land exits, causing thousands of South Sudanese to be stranded in Nimule.
The trucks were unloaded at 4am and left by 7am to go back to Kenya via Uganda.
This emergency food delivery comes just a week before South Sudan leaders reached out to Kenya for economic aid.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – South Sudanese Olympic athlete Guor Marial may not be a hot medal tip for Sunday’s marathon, but the former slave’s road to Rio is one of the most astonishing stories of the games.
As a teenager Marial was forced to run for his life during Sudan’s long civil war in which he lost 28 members of his family, was kidnapped twice and ended up in servitude.
South Sudan’s government has recruited child soldiers, as young as twelve years old, in the past week to prepare for a renewed conflict, according to an internal United Nations document obtained by The Associated Press.
A whole village of boys was pressed into joining the army by a senior politician acting on President Salva Kiir’s instructions, the document suggests. The United Nations’ children’s agency UNICEF said more than 16,000 children have been recruited into armed groups since December 2013 when the civil war first erupted.
The United Nations Security Council approved an expanded mandate for its peacekeepers and added an additional 4,000 troops to its mission in South Sudan, rebuffing government objections, in a bid to halt an all-out civil war in the oil-producing country.
The Security Council on Friday granted additional powers to peacekeepers enabling them to use “all necessary means” to protect UN personnel and to take “proactive” measures to protect civilians from threats.
“The whole point about this process is fighting needs to stop and the peace process needs to be embarked on with some seriousness,” said Peter Wilson, U.K. deputy permanent representative to the UN. “The government of South Sudan has an opportunity to prove to the world and more importantly to its own people that it is serious about peace.”
“The fighting is back, and we are ready to fight,” one young man said.
He pointed beyond the fence ostensibly separating him from armed combatants.
“Our guns are out there,” he said.
The camp’s residents had fled their homes after war broke out in late 2013 between the forces of President Salva Kiir and those of Vice President Riek Machar. Tens of thousands of people were killed in what became an ethnically driven conflict. There were hopes that the violence would end when a peace agreement was signed last August. But fighting broke out last month in the capital, Juba, and everyone expected it to spread.
JUBA, South Sudan — For nearly two weeks, they have hunkered in a schoolyard with nothing to do and nowhere else to go, dozens of people battling hunger, swarms of mosquitoes — and fear.
“I just want peace so I can go back to school,” said Betty Christian, a chatty 19-year-old who fled her home here in the capital, Juba, when clashes erupted across the city this month. As she ran to find shelter, she passed soldiers who debated whether to shoot her, she said. When they decided not to shoot because she was female, she thanked them.
Eventually, Ms. Christian made her way to this makeshift displacement site with her aunt and several of her cousins. But she has not heard from her mother since the gunfire began, and does not know where to find her.
