GEORGE CLOONEY-BACKED REPORT SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT PROFITS FROM CIVIL WAR
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, but plunged into conflict soon after Kiir fired Machar as vice-president in 2013...
THE UNITED STATES HAS RECOMMENDED THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORISE A FORCE OF 4,000 PEACEKEEPERS FOR SOUTH SUDAN'S CAPITAL JUBA AFTER A RECENT OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE.
US proposes an extra 4,000 peacekeepers for South Sudan...
MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE LATEST CLASHES BETWEEN FORCES LOYAL TO SOUTH SUDAN'S PRESIDENT SALVA KIIR AND HIS RIVAL, VICE PRESIDENT RIEK MACHAR.
He did not say if Uganda would take any more concrete action against the plan for South Sudan, which declared independence from Sudan five years ago...
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON ON MONDAY CONDEMNED THE KILLING OF TWO CHINESE PEACEKEEPERS IN RENEWED FIGHTING BETWEEN SOUTH SUDAN'S RIVAL ARMY FACTIONS IN CAPITAL JUBA.
Un chief slams killing of two un chinese peacekeepers in south sudan fighting...
OBAMA AND AFRICAN LEADERS TO CONSIDER SANCTIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN'S CIVIL WAR
US president and top officials from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan to consider a??plan Ba?? to address conflict, including possible arms embargo...
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- GUNMEN HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 140 CIVILIANS NEAR ETHIOPIA'S WESTERN BORDER WITH SOUTH SUDAN, AN ETHIOPIAN OFFICIAL SAID ON SATURDAY.
It is also home to armed Ethiopian and South Sudanese groups that attack government installations and soldiers...
SOUTH SUDAN WORLD'S NEWEST NATION 'NEEDS INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT'
Divisions are also apparent among South Sudan's neighbours, notably between Uganda, which backs Kiir, and President Omar al-Bashir's Sudan, the SPLM's old enemy...
THE ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT MENTION THE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN SOUTH SUDAN THAT HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED BY UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATORS.
The United Nations envoy on sexual violence in conflicts, Zainab Bangura, has spoken of rampant sexual violence, including rapes of children, in South Sudan...
NEARLY TWO YEARS OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN ETHIOPIA'S CAPITAL, ADDIS ABABA, YIELDED SEVERAL CEASE-FIRES, AND RECOMMITMENTS TO CEASE-FIRES, THAT WERE BROKEN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
But shortly after independence, it spiraled into a civil war that killed tens of thousands and displaced more than two million people...