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L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.

South Sudan’s forgotten crisis

South Sudan

South Sudan: Concrete and urgent action is needed to address the crisis
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 11 March 2024

South Sudan: conflict brings the health system to its knees

ICRC staff meets volunteers from the South Sudan Red Cross

The new escalation of violence in South Sudan has severely challenged the ability of doctors and volunteers to adequately assist the people injured.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 24 February 2023

South Sudan: malnutrition and hunger driven by conflict and climate crisis

Flooded area in South Sudan

3 November 2022

Due to the consequences of climate change and conflict, food insecurity in South Sudan has reached the highest level ever recorded
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 17 November 2022

South Sudan: Greater Upper Nile conflict prevents humanitarian aid

Floating in Upper Nile.

21 October 2022

In October Doctors Without Borders reported the dramatic situation in South Sudan caused by conflict in the Greater Upper Nile. 
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 28 October 2022

Violent clashes in South Sudan: over 40,000 displaced persons

Plains of South Sudan crossed by the Nile

17 October 2022

According to a recent UN report, violence between ethnic communities in the Blue Nile has caused over 100 deaths and 40,000 displaced persons.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Sunday, 23 October 2022

Post-conflict mental issues of South Sudanese people are still not fully addressed

An armed group of the Dinka tribe in Rumbek, South Sudan

Tambura (South Sudan)- MSF’s missions are deepening and widening their understanding of mental health, providing first-hand assistance.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

South Sudan: from civil conflict towards lasting peace

South Sudan political map

27 June 2022

The South Sudan transition: last eight months to meet the benchmarks set by the 2018 peace agreements 
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 30 June 2022

Reported attacks in South Sudan in December 2021

Men with rifles, South Sudan

14 December

New wave of attacks has resulted in deaths, injuries and massive displacement in Darfur, South Sudan
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 10 January 2022

Community violence keeps rising in South Sudan

Members of the Dinka tribe in Rumbek, South Sudan

12 October 2021

 Although a peace agreement signed in 2018 ended the civil war, violence driven by community-based militias is on the rise in South Sudan
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 18 October 2021

UNMISS’s protection of child rights

Children running along a path

30 September 2021

 UNMISS trains members of South Sudan's forces in Pochalla on upholding child rights
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 08 October 2021

Humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan condemns attack on humanitarian convoy

Humanitarian convoy

22 September 2021

UN Humanitarian Coordinator has condemned an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Central Equatoria, South Sudan
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 05 October 2021

Crisis in South Sudan persists after 10 years of independence

UN helicopters

13 September 2021

South Sudan is affected by the continued forced displacement of its population, and a worsening  conflict-driven food crisis.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 27 September 2021

UNMISS seeks end to fighting in Tambura, South Sudan

Terminal Dr, Juba, South Sudan

07 September 2021

UNMISS urges quelling of violence in Tambura to avoid internal displacement and human rights violations
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Wednesday, 15 September 2021

South Sudan, decrease in violence provides a sigh of relief

Map of South Sudan.

09 June 2021

Signs of improvement  in Greater Pibor, South Sudan have allowed for some IDPs to return home.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Sharp rise of armed violence in South Sudan

Affected town in Pibor.

16 May 2021 

Local armed groups are terrorizing villages across the Greater Pibor Administrative Area in South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Escalating violence in South Sudan aggravates the humanitarian crisis

Armed members of a tribe in south Sudan

26 April 2021

Killings, displacements of civilians and threat of famine: the impact of the conflict in the Equatoria region
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 10 May 2021

Slow implementation of the peace agreement in South Sudan

Kids playing football on a street in Juba

03 March 2021

South Sudan’s transition to peace is underway, but the fragile peace needs to be pushed forward by the international community
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 12 March 2021

UN rights Commission welcomes transitional justice in South Sudan

Refugees prepare coffee for breakfast in displaced persons camp in Juba, South Sudan

01 February 2021

UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan welcomed the commitment to transitional justice mechanisms aiming at addressing violations and assisting victims.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Wednesday, 17 February 2021

OCHA’s briefing on Ethiopia, South Sudan and Yemen

Ethiopian little girl

26 January 2021

The OCHA has made the point on Ethiopia, South Sudan and Yemen’s situation.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 11 February 2021

African Union: PSC meeting on the protection of children in conflict

Child soldiers at a disarmament ceremony in South Sudan

01 December 2020

Silencing the Guns: deradicalization and education at the forefront of the PSC of the AU’s 965th meeting on the protection of children in conflict. 
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 07 December 2020

South Sudan: when starvation is weaponized

Two South Sudanese women receiving aid for the Red Cross

06 October 2020

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has denounced the political ends behind the famine afflicting South Sudan
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 16 October 2020

South Sudan struggles to finalise the peace agreement process

A child holding a South Sudanese flag

16 September 2020

The top official of the United Nations (UN), David Shearer, worries that the peace agreement in South Sudan is taking longer than expected
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 21 September 2020

UNMISS: The dilemma of leaving the refugee camps to the government

Soft structures at the UNMISS base in Bentiu, South Sudan

04 September 2020

In the midst of new emergencies and historic concerns, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) will decrease its military presence in the refugee camps
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Food insecurity is fostered by ongoing violence in South Sudan

Food assistance delivered by the World Food Programme in Dome, South Sudan

23 July 2020

Seven years of civil war in South Sudan displaced more than 60.000 people and resulted in a major food crisis 
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 27 July 2020

Appeal for peace in South Sudan

Sudanese girls outside in Doro refugee camp

08 July 2020

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appeals to the country’s leaders to reinvigorate efforts for lasting peace
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 13 July 2020

South Sudan: major eruption of violence is feared in Jonglei State

ICRC staff treating a child for gunshot injuries, South Sudan, 2019

18 June 2020

As COVID-19 limits life-saving operations, the ICRC warns many lives could be lost if fighting erupts again in conflict-torn Jonglei State
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 25 June 2020

South Sudan: envisioning national protection for displaced people

South-Sudanese internally displaced women and children in IOM health facility in Kandak

7 June 2020

As South Sudan transitions into peace, a national legislation for protecting internally displaced people (IDPs) must be embraced
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 16 June 2020

South Sudan: hundreds killed in fresh wave of intercommunal clashes

Internally displaced children and a woman sit on a car

20 May 2020

Recent violence between communities in Jonglei State claimed the death of at least 300, including three international aid workers 
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 28 May 2020

COVID-19 Confirmed in South Sudan

Crowded Refugee Camp in Maban County South Sudan

7 April 2020

South Sudan, which is recovering from 6 years of war, is now the 51st African country with a confirmed case of COVID-19
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 10 April 2020

29 people in South Sudan in need of medical care evacuated

A young patient awaits for his surgery at Juba Military Hospital

5 December 2019

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has evacuated 29 people to the Juba Military Hospital where they received further medical care.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Missing file denies justice procedure

he Terrain Hotel compound was ransacked by South Sudanese troops, who went on to attack foreign aid workers, July 2016

6 September 2019

A missing file blocks a possibility for an appeal in the procedure for rapes and murder in South Sudan
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Decrease in Political Violence after Signature of Peace Agreement in South Sudan

Men wave South Sudanese flag amid 2018 peace negotiations

11 February 2019

A peace agreement signed in September 2018 has brought a significant drop in political violence in South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Gunmen from South Sudan Raid Ethiopia, kill 28, take 43 children

Map highlighting Ethiopia and South Sudan with the Gambella region bordering both where the raid occurred

14 October 2017
Ethiopia has reported that more than 1,000 gunmen from South Sudan have raided the Gambella region, killing 28 people and fleeing with 43 children.
Category: Ethiopia - Web Review
Thursday, 26 October 2017

Sexual violence on massive scales in South Sudan

A young South Sudanese girl cooking food in a refugee camp in Uganda

12 October 2017
Thousands of civilians have been raped and tortured since the beginning of the civil war in South Sudan, as claimed by Amnesty International.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 20 October 2017

American journalist among 19 killed in South Sudan

Christopher Allen was a freelance journalist

20 September 2017
A freelance reporter in South Sudan has been killed during a fighting between government soldiers and rebels.

Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Saturday, 23 September 2017

Two Million Children Displaced in South Sudan

A one-month-old baby girl from South Sudan sleeps on a mat in Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda.

7 May 2017
More than two million children have been displaced in South Sudan, according to UNICEF and UNHCR.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 29 June 2017

Attack in Pajok kills and displaces South Sudanese citizens

Thousands flee to neighbouring Uganda as armed forces attack

7 June 2017
On April 3rd, the South Sudanese town of Pajok was attacked by armed forces, leading to more than 6,000 people fleeing from South Sudan into Uganda.
Category: Uganda - Web Review
Friday, 16 June 2017

People in South Sudan face abuses as the conflict increases in violence

Women waiting at a water collection point in a camp for displaced people in Bentiu

18 April 2017
The UN Human Rights Council warns that there is a concrete risk of ethnic cleansing in South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 11 May 2017

Ethnic killings in Wau leave 16 dead

A 27 years old woman with her sons in a UN peacekeepers’ protected site in Wau, South Sudan.

9 May 2017
On April 10, at least 16 civilians died as a result of violence perpetrated by government troops in the city of Wau, in South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

South Sudan experiencing unprecedented levels of sexual violence towards girls and women

A looted bedroom in Juba, South Sudan

25 April 2017
Reports from several international organisations point to an alarmingly rising number of incidents of looting, beatings, rapes and gang rapes against civilians.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Tuesday, 25 April 2017

South Sudan is ‘on the Brink’ of Genocide

More than one million people have fled South Sudan since the conflict erupted in December 2013

14 December 2016
Fighting between government and rebels has seen deliberate starvation, gang rape, and the burning of villages.
Category: Ethiopia - Web Review
Wednesday, 04 January 2017

Uganda Military Enter South Sudan to Evacuate Citizens

Uganda People's Defence Forces' trucks enroute to evacuate their citizens in South Sudan, July 14, 2016.

13 July 2016
Further eruptions of violence in South Sudan have led the Ugandan military to intervene to evacuate its citizens
Category: Uganda - Web Review
Friday, 12 August 2016

South Sudanese families face further displacement

Refugees from South Sudan arrive in Elegu, northern Uganda

13 July 2016
Further displacement in South Sudan is placing increased burden on neighbouring countries
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 12 August 2016

Children Abandoned in South Sudan Due to Mass Hunger

At an Islamic centre, the abandoned children are fed and given an education

13 July 2016
Parents abandon children amid drought and conflict.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Friday, 12 August 2016

Civilians and Chinese Peacekeeper Among 300 Dead as Violence Erupts in South Sudan

Delegates at the AU summit in Kigali.

11 July 2016
Fighting between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and soldiers in support of the Vice President, Riek Machar broke out on Thursday and Friday in Juba, South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 11 August 2016

Woman killed in violent clashes in the split of Central Equatorial State in South Sudan

Rebel soldiers in Nyal, Unity State, South Sudan

16 June 2016
Violence erupted during the inauguration ceremony of the newly created Jubek state in South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 08 August 2016

Civilians Have Been Abused by Government Soldiers in and around Wau

A displaced woman, Akki Adduok, sits in the spot where her shelter used to be in the protection of civilians site in Malakal, South Sudan.

24 May 2016
Civilians have suffered abuse by government soldiers in and around Wau, South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 25 July 2016

Civilians Targeted in Hospitals across South Sudan

The targeting of medical facilities in South Sudan has had drastic consequences for civilians

27 March 2016
UN Security Council alarmed at the disturbing trend of attacks targeting civilians in hospitals across South Sudan.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Monday, 25 July 2016

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees living in deplorable conditions

Refugees from South Sudan living in deplorable conditions

11 May 2016
Refugees fleeing to the Central African Republic from South Sudan face deplorable conditions and limited medical assistance.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 14 July 2016

South Sudanese Gunmen Raid Western Ethiopia

Ordinary women and children were among those killed in the attack.

18 April 2016
Death toll rises to 208 people, with another 108 children kidnapped after South Sudanese gunmen raided western Ethiopia.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 14 July 2016

Refugees Are Still Fleeing from South Kordofan (Sudan) to Yida (South Sudan)

Refugees in Yida camp

3 June 2016
Since 2011, civilians from South Kordofan have fled to Yida in order to escape the civil conflict in their home province.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 07 July 2016

The South Sudanese Government Targets a Protection of Civilians Site

MSF operates a 50-bed hospital in Malakal, including a 24-hour emergency room, as well as a separate emergency room inside the PoC site.

17 February 2016
A South Sudanese government attack against a Protection of Civilians site injured 30 and killed 7. 
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 30 June 2016

Sexual Violence rages through South Sudan as Civil War Continues

women in South Sudan must face deplorable levels of sexual violence despite humanitarian efforts

16 September 2015
Women in South Sudan have suffered deplorable levels of sexual violence in the last two years of civil war.
Category: South Sudan - Web Review
Thursday, 09 June 2016