The UN mission in South Sudan started an investigation into widespread rapes around the city of Bentiu. Some 125 women and girls have been raped or assaulted there, confirms the UN mission. Médecins Sans Frontières had previously denounced the massive rapes committed in a ten-day period.
A court in South Sudan sentenced ten soldiers of that country to prison sentences for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in 2016. The prison sentences range from seven years to life imprisonment.
The South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation to talk to President Salva Kiir next week in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, as a mediator on behalf of the East African joint venture, proposed to bring IGAD to the table for both rivals on 20 June. It could be the trigger for new peace talks.
An orphanage with about 250 children in southern Sudan has been isolated because it has come to the center of the battle scene. On the one side of the building, the government leader involved statements while on the other hand warriors of the opposition had dug themselves.
The South Sudanese government released a journalist working for the UN after two and a half years of imprisonment on Friday. George Livio, who worked for radio Miraya, was arrested in August 2014 but never brought to justice.
The killings and atrocities in South Sudan are becoming more like genocide. Therefore, African leaders must take action. That the British Minister for Development Priti Patel said Wednesday after visiting the country.
The authorities in Southern Sudan demands that Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Development) apologizes for the comment she made recently on Dutch television. Ploumen called the leaders of the hunger-stricken country 'bastards'.
In South Sudan slain six helpers. They were sat in the capital Juba to the town of Pibor on the road when they were attacked in an ambush. That the United Nations Sunday reported, without saying whether they were working for the UN and what nationality they were.
President Salva Kiir of South Sudan, aid agencies safe access promised Tuesday to starving civilians. His government and three organizations of the United Nations warned a day earlier that make almost half of the 11 million inhabitants in a few months the country with severe food shortages can get. In some parts were already people are dying of hunger.
Parts of Southern Sudan ravaged by war hit by famine. This means that all people are dying of starvation. In a few months threatens nearly half of the population, 5.5 million people, have no secure access to more affordable food, say the government and three organizations of the United Nations.
Armed groups in southern Sudan have recruited 1,300 children in 2016. Since the beginning of the conflict in the African country in 2013 have been raised a total of 13,000 children in uniform.
The number of refugees continues to increase in South Sudan. The United Nations has left 3 million South Sudanese homes for fear of the violence that has been unleashed in the struggle for power. About 1.9 million people have moved to relatively safer areas, the remaining 1.1 million have gone abroad. The UN relief organization estimated the number of displaced people earlier this month still 200,000 lower.
Kenya pulls his troops back from the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The government in Nairobi has announced that Wednesday. Kenya is furious about the decision by the United Nations to dismiss the Kenyan commander of the peacekeeping force.
The authorities have arrested seventeen people in South Sudan who are suspected of an attack on a hotel in the capital Juba. South Sudan leader of the research said Wednesday that most detainees were soldiers.
Amnesty International says that the army of South Sudan has committed to the deliberate killing of civilians and rape of girls and women. The atrocities were committed in July in the capital Juba.
Southern Sudan still allows a new force of the United Nations. The country has agreed that the four thousand blue helmets will accept and give them freedom of movement in order to help protect civilians in the capital Juba.
Armed groups in South Sudan have recruited since the beginning of the year more than 650 children. Reported UN children's organization UNICEF, which calls for the unconditional release of all children,, ''.
The South Sudanese army has executed two soldiers for killings in the northwest of the country. Nineteen others have been imprisoned for murder, looting and other crimes in the capital Juba.
The United Nations Security Council on Friday approved the deployment of forces in the South Sudanese capital Juba. The force consists of four thousand soldiers. The deployment is part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country.
The government of South Sudan still refuses additional peacekeepers to admit the United Nations. Foreign troops are welcome to help the bloodshed to end in the country, but not the UN commanded, let the government know in Juba Wednesday.
Government forces in South Sudan have executed civilians and participated in group rapes of women and girls during the fighting last month in the capital Juba. That accusation is Thursday of the High Commissioner for UN Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir has his rival Riek Machar, in late April, took over as vice president, replaced by decree by Gen. Taban Deng Gai. This measure puts a bomb under the peace agreement last year was signed by the warring parties with ease.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir wants extra UN troops permit in his country. The United Nations Sunday expressed their willingness to send more manpower to ensure safety. Kiir said Thursday that there are already 12,000 foreign troops in his country and that more troops are not accepted.
While German citizens can be retrieved by the military from the capital of South Sudan, the United States choose a different strategy. US sends forty additional troops to Juba there to protect American diplomats and staff from the hostilities in the capital.
Germany Wednesday in the South Sudanese capital Juba began the evacuation of Germans and other Europeans. The first group of evacuees to be flown to Uganda on Wednesday afternoon, a flight of about 500 kilometers. The German military aircraft of the Franco-German Transall type have special protection mechanisms against missile attacks.
The Red Cross has temporarily evacuated Tuesday some of its international staff in South Sudan. The charity night, although a cease-fire was declared, the risk of escalation of violence undiminished. The stakeholders, including not Dutch, have sought refuge in Uganda.
In Southern Sudan and in particular its capital Juba on Tuesday was a lot quieter than the last five days. President Salva Kiir instructed his soldiers on Monday to observe a truce, and the violence subsided quickly.
The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir, the soldiers of his army SPLA Monday instructed to lay down their arms. He still said to be ready to work with his rival Riek Machar, the current vice president. In recent days threatened fierce firefights in capital Juba to pay the young African country back into civil war.
The fighting in Juba, capital of South Sudan, are flared Monday morning at first light. The soldiers of the rivals President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar went to another body for the fifth consecutive day.
The United States on Sunday (local time) demanded that the fighting be stopped immediately between rival groups in South Sudan. The US decided to bring back some of the embassy staff from capital Juba.
