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South Sudan factions agree on federal government
30 September 2014 - South Sudan's warring factions have agreed on the installation of a federal system of government in South Sudan, mediators announced Tuesday, saying progress was being made in talks aimed at finding a political solution to violence in the world's newest country. (more)

South Sudan President agrees to ceasefire with rebel leader
9 May 2014 - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar signed a ceasefire deal on Friday. Friday's deal was made at a meeting in Ethiopia that was the first time the two men had met face-to-face since violence erupted in December following a long power struggle. Kiir and Machar, both Christians, shook hands and prayed together. The truce will take effect within 24 hours and both sides agreed to disengage their forces and refrain from any provocative actions, said Seyoum Mesfin, lead mediator from the regional IGAD grouping. (more)

South Sudan rebel leader in Ethiopia for peace talks
8 May 2014 - South Sudan's rebel leader arrived in Ethiopia on Thursday, an official said, one day ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with the President since mass violence began in December. The Friday talks will be the first time the leaders of South Sudan's two warring sides have met since the violence broke out. 'I don't believe that they will meet and reach an agreement straight away. But if they can agree on a broad-based process on how to resolve the conflict, end the fighting, that would be a step forward,' Susan Page, the US ambassador to South Sudan, said during a radio call-in show. 'People want peace. People don't understand why the country should go into war just less than three years since independence,' she added later. (more)

Peace talks tentatively set for South Sudan
2 May 2014 - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir agreed Friday to meet with his rival as soon as next week to jumpstart peace talks that have been stalled for months, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, potentially laying the groundwork for a new government to bring the world's newest nation back to normal. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, has agreed to mediate the talks. (more)

South Sudan leader ready for peace talks
2 May 2014 - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has agreed to fly to Ethiopia for talks and to consider forming a transitional government to try and end four months of fighting in the world's newest nation, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday. Kerry, who met the President in South Sudan's capital Juba, said he hoped Kiir would be able to hold a face-to-face meeting with rebel leader Riek Machar as early as next week to settle the conflict. (more)

UN welcomes start of South Sudan political talks
12 February 2014 - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the start of the South Sudan political talks between the Government and the opposition, and stressed the need for the parties to adhere to the ceasefire signed last month. The political talks between the Government of South Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in opposition, are taking place in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, under the auspices of the East African regional body known as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). (more)

South Sudan frees seven detainees as part of peace deal
29 January 2014 - South Sudan freed seven senior political figures on Wednesday who had been arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup, partially meeting a rebel demand at peace talks focused on ending weeks of fighting. It handed them over to neighbouring Kenya and said four remaining detainees could be released after unspecified 'legal clarifications' -- raising hopes it was preparing to remove a major sticking point in troubled negotiations. (more)

South Sudan government and rebels sign ceasefire deal
23 January 2014 - South Sudan's government and rebels signed a ceasefire on Thursday to end more than five weeks of fighting that divided Africa's newest nation and brought it to the brink of civil war. The pact is expected to be implemented within 24 hours of the signing, mediators said. South Sudan won its independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of conflict between the northern and southern Sudanese. (more)

South Sudan, rebels sign ceasefire
23 January 2014 - South Sudan's government and rebels signed a ceasefire deal Thursday that leaders hope will put a pause to five weeks of warfare. United States President Barack Obama welcomed the deal -- technically called a cessation of hostilities -- and described it as a 'first critical step toward building a lasting peace'. (more)

South Sudan: US doctors try to heal ethnic fractures
8 January 2014 - After receiving eye surgery from the American doctors, a South Sudanese man sat with other patients who belonged to tribes he once considered enemies. The men spoke about their newly restored vision -- both their eyesight and how they now perceive members of other ethnic groups as potential friends, not sworn enemies. The medical group began its mission in the village of Duk Payuel in Jonglei through the efforts of John Dau, a former 'Lost Boy' of Sudan who fled the 1990s conflict by walking to Ethiopia and eventually finding his way to Syracuse, New York. His foundation provides health care and medical training. (more)


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A proven approach for relief from stress of war and violence - South Sudan Liberty News reports
7 May 2014 - In the past 20 years, 18 African nations have been ravaged by war. It is estimated that up to 100 million Africans have been victims of war, violence, or natural disasters or witnessed horrific acts of terror, and now suffer from post-traumatic stress (PTS). Experts acknowledge that PTS has been resistant to the many conventional approaches used to treat psychological disturbance. Particularly in Africa, there is a pressing need for simple, cost-effective and easily sustainable treatments. In an article just published in South Sudan Liberty News, authors Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kulwant Singh, Dr David Leffler, and David Shapiro state: 'We suggest that all Africans and in particular all African militaries implement the Transcendental Meditation programme because there is a large body of evidence supporting the positive benefits of this alternative approach.' (more)

A proven strategy to end conflict in South Sudan: All Africa reports
29 December 2013 - Today, the military of South Sudan has an opportunity to overcome the cycle of war by deploying the scientifically verified Invincible Defence Technology (IDT), which neutralizes 'social stress'--mounting political, religious and/or ethnic tensions between rival factions, identified by experts in conflict resolution as the underlying cause of war. Over 50 research studies confirm that when the required threshold of experts practising IDT--Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques--is crossed, crime goes down, quality of life indices go up, and war and terrorism abate. The South Sudan military has the opportunity to create national security, invincibility, and peace through IDT. But the time to act is now. (more)


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Violence and rights abuses threaten South Sudan's stability, a UN report warns
2 March 2024 - Mass violence and gross human rights violations in South Sudan continue unabated ahead of landmark elections due to take place in December, a report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has warned. ...Women and girls have been particularly targeted, the report said, while abductions have become a 'troubling exploitative enterprise.' (more)

South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects
15 February 2020 - The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals including mercury, manganese, and arsenic, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press. The reports also contain accounts of 'alarming' birth defects, miscarriages, and other health problems among residents of the region and soldiers who have been stationed there. (more)

Fighting breaks out in South Sudan 2 days after peace deal
14 September 2018 - Fighting has broken out in South Sudan two days after the warring sides signed what the government called a 'final final' peace agreement to end the civil war. Each side blames the other for the attacks. Clashes erupted Friday morning [14 September] in Central Equatoria state when government troops stormed bases in Lainya and Kajo Keji counties, opposition spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel said. (more)

Lack of hope in South Sudan camps drives youth into gang crime
4 June 2018 - Having twice escaped the clutches of South Sudanese rebels who forced him to fight with them, Puok Barar, a grinning 16-year-old in rubber flip-flops decorated with the word 'LOVE', has already confronted many of his worst fears. But in the PoC3 camp for people uprooted by violence and conflict, encircled by a barbed-wire fence on the outskirts of the capital Juba, where Barar now lives, he is still afraid. His kidnappers may be far away, but inside the muddy camp of ramshackle tents, youths his age prowl, attacking others. (more)

In South Sudan, civil war drives more children onto the streets, into work
13 February 2018 - Hunger, fuelled by a protracted civil war and a failed economy, has pushed children ... into labour or life on the streets, according to a report by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). South Sudan -- the world's youngest country which gained independence in 2011 -- is wrestling one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The U.N. children's agency UNICEF says every second person in the population of 12 million is hungry, 72 percent of children are out of school, and 4.2 million children need help. armed groups in the civil war that started in 2013 . . . (more)

Little hope of peace talks as renewed fighting looms in South Sudan
10 November 2017 - As fresh fighting looms in South Sudan with the onset of the dry season, there is little chance of peace talks to end a war that has already killed tens of thousands of people and created Africa's largest refugee crisis, diplomats and analysts said. South Sudan's war began in late 2013 between soldiers of President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former vice president, Riek Machar, a Nuer, devastating the country's swampy northeast. (more)

From independence to starvation in the world's newest nation, South Sudan
13 September 2016 - Tens of thousands of people in conflict-ridden South Sudan are at risk of dying from starvation with many living in swamps and surviving on water lilies following renewed violence, a senior aid worker has warned. The hunger crisis comes amid continuing instability and violence in the African country that attained independence from Sudan five years ago with renewed fighting hampering relief supplies. Here are some key facts and figures about the on-going conflict which is nearly three years long despite a formal peace accord last year, and has resulted in as many as 100,000 deaths and the displacement of 2.5 million people. (more)

'Untold devastation' in South Sudan triggers grave humanitarian crisis
9 August 2016 - South Sudan is reeling from an unprecedented humanitarian crisis a month after deadly clashes between government and opposition forces set off a fresh cycle of violence and displacements, the UN has warned. About 6 million South Sudanese -- more than half of the country's population -- are now in need of humanitarian assistance, with 4.8 million facing severe hunger. In Juba, the most recent surge in violence has left hungry, displaced families with a heart-wrenching choice: to stay inside the UN camp for displaced people and watch their children starve, or to fetch food from outside but risk attacks by marauding soldiers. (more)

Hundreds of displaced South Sudanese struggling for shelter
22 July 2016 - Hundreds of civilians displaced by recent fighting in South Sudan are struggling to find proper shelter in U.N. compounds in the capital as the rainy season begins to set in. Dozens of people have fallen ill with suspected cholera in South Sudan's capital, while a U.N. food warehouse was looted and destroyed, incurring 20 million U.S. dollars of damage, the United Nations has said. Many foreigners have already been evacuated from the world's newest nation, which is still recovering from a two-year civil war that started in 2013, killing tens of thousands of people and driving more than 2.5 million from their homes. (more)

Hundreds of thousands face starvation in South Sudan: Red Cross
10 June 2015 - Hundreds of thousands of people risk starvation in South Sudan where a resurgence in fighting and deepening food shortages have left some with nothing to eat except water lilies, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday, 10 June. Violence had intensified in the world's youngest country in the past few weeks and troubled peace talks are unlikely to restart soon, the aid agency added. (more)

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