FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24thNovember 2016 The recent wave of massacres against innocent civilians in Equatoria, perpetrated by SPLA soldiers, is deeply disturbing. This is especially the case given the massacres immediately follow the inflammatory speech of the President against Equatorians, made on the 19th of September 2016 in Juba and denounced in our press release Read More …

  By JUSTIN LYNCHNov. 17, 2016 9:04 PM EST   YEI, South Sudan (AP) — Infants hacked with machetes. Charred bodies with their arms bound. Women who were gang-raped. Men who were spared death but arbitrarily detained. These are the tales of horror told in Yei, a formerly peaceful town surrounded by farms in south Read More …

Interim report of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2206 (2015) 15 November 2016 Summary   In the wake of the de facto collapse of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan after the fighting in Juba in July 2016, the Read More …

November 12, 2016 H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Chairperson, African Union Commission P.O. Box 3243, Roosevelt Street W21K19 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ambassador (Eng.) Mahboub Maalim The Executive Secretary IGAD Secretariat Avenue Georges Clemenceau P.O. Box 2653 Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti RE: Genocide in South Sudan  H.E. Dr. Zuma and Ambassador Maalim, We, the undersigned 101 South Read More …

November 12, 2016 H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Chairperson, African Union Commission P.O. Box 3243, Roosevelt Street W21K19 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   Ambassador (Eng.) Mahboub Maalim The Executive Secretary IGAD Secretariat Avenue Georges Clemenceau P.O. Box 2653 Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti   RE: Genocide in South Sudan    H.E. Dr. Zuma and Ambassador Maalim,   We, Read More …

Statement of the Fourth High-Level Meeting of the JMEC Partners Group on South Sudan Kampala, Uganda 10 November 2016 The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) Partners Group on South Sudan – including representatives of China, Ethiopia (Chair of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)), Nigeria, Norway, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, the UK, the Read More …

STATEMENT BY HON RAILA ODINGA: WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM SOUTH SUDAN POINTS TO A DEEPER PROBLEM: On Tuesday, 1st November 2016, the UN announced that it had sacked Lieutenant-General Johnson Magoa Kimani Ondieki as the head of its peace-keeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Two days later, on 4th November 2016, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Read More …

Kampala, Uganda 10 November 2016 The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) Partners Group on South Sudan – including representatives of China, Ethiopia (Chair of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)), Nigeria, Norway, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, the UK, the US, Uganda, the European Union, the IGAD Partners Forum represented by Canada, Germany and Read More …

STATEMENT BY HON RAILA ODINGA: WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM SOUTH SUDAN POINTS TO A DEEPER PROBLEM: On Tuesday, 1st November 2016, the UN announced that it had sacked Lieutenant-General Johnson Magoa Kimani Ondieki as the head of its peace-keeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Two days later, on 4th November 2016, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Read More …

THE UNITED PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT Republic Of South Sudan UPDM PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8th November 2016 UPDM expresses grave alarm by the decisions of the government of the Republic of Kenya to deport a South Sudanese refugee, James Gatdet Dak, to Juba on the 3rd of November 2016. We are deeply concerned about Read More …