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 …
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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 US, Uganda, the European Union, the IGAD Partners Forum represented by Canada, Germany and Read More …
Statement by Hon Raila Odinga: Kenya’s withdrawal of troops from South Sudan
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 …
Kenya’s abrupt disengagement from South Sudan’s peace process and deportation of refugee
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 …
UNHCR on the return of Mr James Gatdet Dak to South Sudan
4 November 2016 UNHCR is deeply concerned about the well-being of Mr James Gatdet Dak, SPLA IO Spokesperson, who was returned to South Sudan from Kenya on Monday, 2 November. Mr Dak had previously been granted refugee status by the Kenyan authorities. Mr Dak’s forced return is a violation of the principle of non-refoulement,which is Read More …
UNHCR on the return of Mr James Gatdet Dak to South Sudan
4 November 2016 UNHCR is deeply concerned about the well-being of Mr James Gatdet Dak, SPLA IO Spokesperson, who was returned to South Sudan from Kenya on Monday, 2 November. Mr Dak had previously been granted refugee status by the Kenyan authorities. Mr Dak’s forced return is a violation of the principle of non-refoulement,which is Read More …
President Salva Kirr’s incitement to violence against Equatorians
THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT Republic South Sudan PDM PRESS STATEMENT – 25 October 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The United People’s Democratic Movement (UPDM) is appalled by and unreservedly condemn the irresponsible and alarming inflammatory rhetoric by President Salva Kiir in his speech addressed to his Party Officials at the Freedom Hall in Juba on the Read More …
Kenya’s abrupt disengagement from South Sudan’s peace process and deportation of refugee
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 …