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In at least 60 incidents over the last year and a half journalists in South Sudan were killed, beaten, detained, denied entry or fired for doing their jobs, a UN report said Thursday.
The United Nations says over 300 child soldiers have been released by armed groups in war-ravaged South Sudan under a scheme to help reintegrate them into society.
Hundreds of angry anti-US protesters have rallied in the restive South Sudan’s capital of Juba, beating at least a couple of journalists, including a female reporter who was repeatedly struck in the face.
Chairperson of the African Union Moussa Faki says restrictions must be imposed on those who are disturbing peace in South Sudan following a nearly four-year civil war in the African country.
Millions of Iranians have staged fresh nationwide demonstrations on Wednesday to renew their support for the Islamic establishment and denounce the recent wave of deadly unrest that hit some areas in the country.
The Congolese army has stepped up arrests of South Sudanese refugees and tightened the border in a bid to block rebels from seeking sanctuary in its country, officials say.
South Sudan's government and main rebel group on Sunday accused each other of breaking a ceasefire that went into effect shortly after midnight.
The death toll from inter-clan fighting in South Sudan's Great Lakes region last week — a new source of violence in a country devastated by a four-year civil war — has reached at least 170.
Over 1.2 million people in war-torn South Sudan are one step away from famine — twice as many as at the same time last year — and in early 2018 half the country's population will be reliant on emergency food aid, the UN humanitarian chief said Thursday.
Fifty people were killed in raids by a tribal militia in eastern South Sudan, a local official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks between rival communities.