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Lack of a desk to investigate incidents of sexual and other gender-based violence at the Tambura police department is creating difficulties in curbing these crimes, which are reported to be common in the area. This concern was shared by the acting police commissioner Brigadier General Jonathan Jabir…

Since her childhood days in Majok, Martha Agew’s life has relied heavily on rearing livestock. Ms. Agew was one of may beneficiaries as Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan provided cattle keepers in her area with free veterinary services. “I am a 65-year…

Rwandan peacekeepers serving under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have conducted a clean-up exercise at Kapoeta state hospital, as part of their civil-military engagements. Activities entailed painting and weeding parts of the hospital. This initiative by the troops came in the…

“Being a leprosy patient, I was disowned by my own family, treated as an outcast and sent away from my village,” began Maget Viola, an inhabitant of Agoke Centre in Wau. “We are almost forgotten – nobody sees us; we don’t receive any support from aid agencies. We are suffering a lot here, but we’ve…

“Today, all the forces and I are happy, because this ends the war and suffering of our people. Now there is peace because we [military troops from different armies] are moving to training centres in Wau,” says John Arkangelo, a Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition soldier from Ngo Halima…

“We are working day and night to respect and promote human rights in our camps and all territories we control in the Kapoeta area,” assures Major General Yusuf Peter Lotipe, senior commander of the Sudan People’s Army in Opposition at the Lowareng cantonment site in Eastern Equatoria. More than 100…

A bottle of water retails at 200 South Sudanese pounds or SSP (just under $1) in Boma area’s Pibor town. But that is a smaller matter. To get any kind of medical service, each member of the area’s impoverished population must have no less than 30,000 SSP ($100). “Even soda sells at 500 SSP. All…

“We, the women in Aweil, are not having even one percent of our rights being respected,” says the local female minister of social development, Arek Ayii Deng. Addressing participants at a one-day workshop on hate speech and freedom of opinion and expression organized by the United Nations Mission in…

“I do not want children to suffer like we do in the bushes. They are our future, and we want to open the gates of success for them by removing them from the army,” said a Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition’s Lieutenant Colonel, Mawa Bosco Oliver, himself a father of six. He believes that…

A simple task of meshing together metal pallets and bars to repair a broken bridge has provided a lifeline for communities in the Lakes region of South Sudan, enabling traders to travel more easily and ensuring humanitarian relief reaches families in need. “The bridge is far more important than it…

"We are happy with the changes that we are seeing as a result of the signing of the [revitalized] peace agreement. The ceasefire is holding up nicely and the security situation is calm. We, the opposition, and government forces are working closely together to bring durable peace to South Sudan,”…

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, together with local authorities in Western Lakes, has begun a series of sessions to avoid conflicts in cattle camps ahead of the notoriously resource-scarce and hence violent dry season, which typically runs till early April. The campaign was launched in…