Category: Sudan
A Week in the Horn
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) July 17.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. News in Brief. Africa and the African Union The 29th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council Kicked off this week on Wednesday (July 13) at the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC), Rwanda. The official opening of the council sturdily denounced the conflict in South Sudan.…
South Sudan: Germany evacuates 200, Closes embassy “temporarily”
Germany has, in the wake of the deteriorating situation in South Sudan, “temporarily” closed its embassy and evacuated its nationals from the country. “There was street to street fighting directly in front of the homes of many employees and aid workers, after four days of heavy fighting, which we had to witness up close, there…
S.SUDAN REFUGEES COULD SOON HIT ONE MILLION
Ann Encontre, a UN refugee coordinator in South Sudan, said on Friday there was concern about fresh outflows of refugees following clashes in the capital Juba, and appealed for $701 million in relief aid. On Friday, the UN said at least 300 people had been killed in four days of intense gun battles, and 42,000…
Ban Ki Moon Calls for Demilitarization of Juba
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, has called on the South Sudanese warring parties and peace partners to demilitarize the national capital, Juba, as one of the measures in ensuring protection of their leadership and to avoid return to violence in the capital. In a meeting in Kigale, Rwanda, on Friday, with South…
Sudanese President Arrives in Kigali for AU Summit
Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir has arrived in the Rwandan capital, Kigali on Saturday to attend the 27th African Union Summit. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two arrest warrants against al-Bashir in 2009 and 2010 for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state…
Machar says palace attack in Juba designed to kill him
JUBA (HAN) July 15.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s First Vice President, Riek Machar, said the fighting that erupted between his bodyguards and President Salva Kiir’s forces at the J1 Palace or State House on Monday, 8 July, in the national capital, Juba, was calculated to kill him. Machar in his first…
South Sudan blocks people from leaving country: Amnesty International
JUBA (HAN) July 15.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese security forces are deliberately blocking people from leaving the country in violation of their right to freedom of movement, Amnesty International has revealed. The organization said it has received reports from two charter companies that National Security Service officers have ordered them not to…
South Sudan’s shaky peace-Talk to Al Jazeera
JUBA (HAN) July 13.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan on Saturday coincided with renewed fighting in Juba between forces loyal to the president and vice-president. This led to fears and claims of a renewal of the civil war that started in late 2013 and has left…
Uganda to sends Troops to South Sudan
JUBA (HAN) July 13.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) is heading back into troubled South Sudan ostensibly to evacuate its nationals trapped in the conflict. Government officials in Kampala have confirmed a decision to send a “small force” to help evacuate Ugandans trapped in Africa’s youngest and volatile…
US. deploys troops to protect the embassy in Juba, S.Sudan
JUBA (HAN) July 13.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The U.S. military in Africa has sent 40 additional soldiers to South Sudan’s capital, Juba, to help secure American personnel and facilities in the war-torn city, said the military on Wednesday . A ceasefire has taken effect in the capital but South Sudanese trying to flee…
