The cease-fire currently in effect may not last, but a brittle equilibrium is better than a return to warfare.
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More Than a Million People in South Sudan Are on the Brink of Starvation | Time
(JUBA, South Sudan) — In war-torn South Sudan 1.25 million people are facing starvation, double the number from the same time last year, according to a report by the United Nations and the government released Monday.
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Over One Million South Sudanese Flee From Violence to Uganda | The New York Times
GENEVA — A daily exodus of villagers fleeing armed conflict, hunger and sexual violence in South Sudan has pushed the number of refugees sheltering in Uganda to over one million, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday, urging international action to deal with what it called one of Africa’s biggest humanitarian crises.
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War Consumes South Sudan, a Young Nation Cracking Apart – The New York Times
YAMBIO, South Sudan — Simon Burete was weeding his peanut field a few weeks ago when he saw smoke coming from his house. He ran as fast as he could.
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‘Very real risk’ of South Sudan atrocities, UN secretary general warns
Ban Ki-moon claims UN peacekeepers currently deployed in South Sudan would not be capable of preventing mass killings.
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Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?
Colonial rule ended in Sudan in 1956. As the British and Egyptian flags were lowered, a struggle for power between rival factions was already under way. Fifty-five years later Sudan was partitioned and a new nation came into existence: South Sudan, whose population had spent decades waging a succession of wars against the regime in Khartoum, was now an independent country, the world’s most recent, recognized by the UN, the African Union (AU), and Sudan itself.
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