Promoting human rights key to reducing violence in South Sudan

DELIVERED BY Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris New York (23 May 2022) – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris today concluded a two-day working mission to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, …

Time is short for Sudan to resolve political crisis, Mission chief warns

“The crisis facing Sudan is entirely homegrown and can only be resolved by the Sudanese,” Volker Perthes, who is also Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), told Council members. Envoys of the trilateral …

A visit to Sudan

  I have just returned from a brief and intensive visit to Sudan as part of an Egyptian civil society mission aiming to strengthen relations between the Egyptian and Sudanese peoples.  Former foreign affairs minister Mohamed Al-Orabi headed our delegation, …

South Sudan Tourism relaunched -all new!

South Sudan Tourism is launching its travel and tourism industry again n style. The US Embassy says: “Do not travel to South Sudan due to crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict. Country Summary: Violent crime, such as carjackings, shootings, ambushes, …

Protests Rock Sudan as People Call For Civilian Rule

ALBAWABA - Sudan continues on the boil with people taking to the streets. News is continuing all over the social media of protests around the country including in Khartoum and the different towns surrounding it. The protests now enter the eight month after …

South Sudan: UNISFA debunks fake news

UNISFA/SCPIS/PR/113 Abyei, 13 April 2022 –The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) observes with great concern the fake news credited to Twic Media Reports, a South Sudanese on-line media NGO alleging that UNISFA forces …

South Sudan clashes: UN calls for accountability of perpetrators

Silence has engulfed thousands of homes burnt down in different locations across the southern part of South Sudan’s Unity State. A February and April attack saw about 40,000 locals flee for their lives. The UN Mission in the country called for healing and …

Radisson Hotel Group debuts in South Sudan with the opening of Radisson Blu Hotel, Juba

Radisson Hotel Group (www.RadissonHotels.com) is proud to announce its arrival in South Sudan with the opening of Radisson Blu Hotel, Juba, the country’s first internationally branded 5-star hotel. Located in Juba, the fast-growing capital and largest city …

AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Allow me to visit the people who live in the bushes" asks the new Bishop of Yei

Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Allow me to visit the people who live in the bushes", said the new consecrated Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yei on May 15, 2022, Msgr. Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo. "I would like to appeal to the security people here …

Biden admin. warns U.S. companies against doing business in Sudan