https://www.salo.org.za/countries/south-sudan/Recent content in South Sudan on Southern African Liaison OfficeHugo -- gohugo.ioen-zaTue, 18 Sep 2018 12:37:00 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/why-are-you-supporting-the-sawasouthsudan-summit/Fri, 25 May 2018 07:29:11 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/why-are-you-supporting-the-sawasouthsudan-summit/For Navi Pillay, it’s because the women of South Sudan have suffered for far too long. Share your reasons for participating in the comments below and don’t forget to RSVP at https://www.sawasouthsudan.com/https://www.salo.org.za/dialogue-online-no2-of-2017-the-role-of-the-international-community-in-south-sudan-by-ms-emmaculate-asige-19-july-2017/Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:00:57 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/dialogue-online-no2-of-2017-the-role-of-the-international-community-in-south-sudan-by-ms-emmaculate-asige-19-july-2017/As shown by cases such as the Rwandan Genocide, the international community’s reaction to African civil wars has often been too weak, too little and/or too late. However, since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the presence of international actors in pursuit of peace in South Sudan has been recorded as overwhelming.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudans-million-strong-refugee-crisis-is-a-test-for-the-world-bank/Fri, 07 Jul 2017 21:38:46 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudans-million-strong-refugee-crisis-is-a-test-for-the-world-bank/“Around half a million of the refugees that have crossed the border into Uganda from South Sudan are children. They have been fleeing at the rate of one a minute for the past year, putting additional strain on an already stretched Ugandan education system.https://www.salo.org.za/policy-brief-no-7-of-2016-women-in-peace-building-lessons-from-south-sudan-30-june-2016/Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:58:05 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/policy-brief-no-7-of-2016-women-in-peace-building-lessons-from-south-sudan-30-june-2016/In July 2016, almost a year since the signing of the ARCSS in August 2015 between President Salva Kiir, and Vice-President Riek Machar, within the Government of National Unity, the agreement had failed to stem the perpetual violence in Juba, while felt this raised questions relating to the leadership and credibility of the Transitional Government of National Unity, the ongoing tensions caused yet more trauma for women and children.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-19-august-2016/Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:02:18 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-19-august-2016/Riek Machar flees S Sudan, ‘in care’ of DRC authorities UN spokesman says Machar is in the care of authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo after fleeing South Sudan. South Sudan’s former vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar “is in the care” of the authorities in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations has said, several weeks after he withdrew from the capital Juba during fierce fighting with government troops.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-12-august-2016/Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:01:26 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-12-august-2016/S Sudan turns down proposal to take more UN troops South Sudan has rejected a proposal by the United States for the UN Security Council to send 4,000 additional troops to the country, claiming it “seriously undermines” its sovereignty. Michael Makuei, a government spokesman, said on Wednesday that the proposal that could be voted on Friday by the Security Council was giving the UN the ability to govern.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-5-august-2016/Fri, 05 Aug 2016 18:11:31 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-5-august-2016/UN accuses South Sudan troops of committing atrocities The United Nations’ top human-rights official has accused South Sudanese government troops and rebels of ethnically targeted atrocities, including extrajudicial executions and rapes, during renewed fighting over the last month. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said on Thursday that preliminary findings showed that the majority of crimes were carried out by troops loyal to President Salva Kiir, who is from the Dinka ethnic group, against people of Nuer origin.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-a-country-captured-by-armed-factions/Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:30:51 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-a-country-captured-by-armed-factions/30 July 2016 Since August 2015, the gravest challenge to the South Sudan transitional process and to the viability of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) is posed by President Salva Kiir’s recent appointment of General Taban Deng Gai as first vice president, replacing Riek Machar.https://www.salo.org.za/the-indian-ocean-newsletter-museveni-plays-both-sides-in-juba-conflict/Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:00:48 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/the-indian-ocean-newsletter-museveni-plays-both-sides-in-juba-conflict/29 July 2016 To read the newsletter in full, please click here.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-july-2016/Sat, 30 Jul 2016 17:35:54 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-july-2016/At Least 120 Cases of Sexual Violence in South Sudan Capital - UN UN said it continued to receive deeply disturbing reports of sexual violence, including rape and gang rape. The United Nations said on Wednesday there has been at least 120 cases of sexual violence and rape against civilians in South Sudan’s capital Juba since fighting erupted three weeks ago between troops loyal to the country’s rival leaders.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-22-july-2016/Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:11:55 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-22-july-2016/UN human rights expert calls for the release of journalist Alfred Taban A United Nations human rights expert today urged the Government of South Sudan to immediately release Alfred Taban, a prominent journalist and chief editor of the daily English newspaper, Juba Monitor.https://www.salo.org.za/international-crisis-group-de-escalating-south-sudans-new-flare-up/Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:14:41 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/international-crisis-group-de-escalating-south-sudans-new-flare-up/12 July 2016 Violent clashes in the capital of South Sudan have soured the country’s fifth anniversary of independence. Hundreds of soldiers and civilians were killed in the four days after 7 July, including two Chinese peacekeepers. The confrontation threatens to destroy the fragile progress made toward implementing a 2015 peace agreement to end a two-year civil war.https://www.salo.org.za/communique-of-the-611th-meeting-of-the-psc-on-the-situation-in-south-sudan/Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:51:58 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/communique-of-the-611th-meeting-of-the-psc-on-the-situation-in-south-sudan/The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 611th meeting, held on 11 July 2016, adopted the following decision on the situation in South Sudan: Council, Takes note of the briefing provided by the Commissioner for Peace and Security, as well as of the statements made by the representatives of South Sudan and Ethiopia, in its capacity as the Chair of Inter-governmental Authority for Development (IGAD); Recalls its previous communiqués and press statements on the situation in South Sudan, in particular communiqué PSC/AHG/COMM.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-joint-letter-to-the-un-security-council/Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:28:13 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-joint-letter-to-the-un-security-council/10 July 2016 In response to what appears to be a resumption of all-out conflict in South Sudan over the weekend, Crisis Action supported a coalition of 20 South Sudanese organisations to write a joint public letter to the UN Security Council ahead of their emergency meeting.https://www.salo.org.za/jmec-chairmans-statement-to-the-extra-ordinary-session-of-the-igad-council-of-ministers-on-the-situation-in-south-sudan/Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:27:18 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/jmec-chairmans-statement-to-the-extra-ordinary-session-of-the-igad-council-of-ministers-on-the-situation-in-south-sudan/11 July 2016 The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) for the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan has released the statement delivered by the Chairperson of JMEC, H. E. Festus G. Mogae, to the “Extra-Ordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers on the situation in South Sudan” on 11 July 2016 in Nairobi.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-8-july-2016/Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:35:00 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-8-july-2016/South Sudan’s former rebels warn of return to war Former rebels aligned with Vice President Riek Machar on Wednesday accused the South Sudanese government of arrests and killings they said could drag the country back to civil war. “If the government does not take good care of this case and the arrested opposition members are not released, then this may take us back to war because that’s the only solution for the government to free our soldiers and officials,” spokesman Col.https://www.salo.org.za/women-in-peace-building-lessons-from-south-sudan-co-hosted-by-salo-and-dirco-30-june-2016-pretoria/Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:05:58 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/women-in-peace-building-lessons-from-south-sudan-co-hosted-by-salo-and-dirco-30-june-2016-pretoria/On the 30th of June 2016, SALO in partnership with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), hosted a workshop entitled, The Role of Women in Peace-building: Lessons from South Sudan. This event highlighted the challenges that women face in the South Sudan peace process and opportunities for greater inclusion.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-24-june-2016/Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:06:08 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-24-june-2016/UN to send peacekeepers home over South Sudan inaction The United Nations has said that it will send peacekeepers home over a “lack of responsiveness” during a bloody attack on a UN-run camp in South Sudan in February. UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous acknowledged on Wednesday that an investigation had found “inadequacies” in peacekeepers’ response when gunmen in military uniforms stormed the camp in the northeastern town of Malakal on February 17 and 18, firing on civilians and setting shelters ablaze.https://www.salo.org.za/msf-internal-review-of-the-february-2016-attack-on-the-malakal-protection-of-civilians/Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:39:08 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/msf-internal-review-of-the-february-2016-attack-on-the-malakal-protection-of-civilians/June 2016 Violence erupted between internally displaced persons (IDPs) of different ethnic groups in a Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Malakal, South Sudan, on 17 February 2016 and continued until the next afternoon. There are strong indications that external military forces were also involved in the fighting.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-17-june-2016/Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:33:46 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-17-june-2016/More than 230 000 South Sudanese in Sudan The UN says Sudan is hosting the largest number of South Sudanese refugees, with 232 000 having entered since a civil war erupted in the neighbouring country at the end of 2013. South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 but two years later it fell into a brutal civil war that has killed tens of thousands of civilians.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-3-june-2016/Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:29:53 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-3-june-2016/IMF warns of further deteriorating economy in South Sudan The world’s economic centre house - the International Monetary Fund (IMF) based in New York - has warned of further deteriorating economic situation in South Sudan unless quick economic reform policies were adopted and political environment eased.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-27-may-2016/Fri, 27 May 2016 10:46:41 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-27-may-2016/South Sudan calls for priority in World Humanitarian Summit Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Eugene Owusu has called on the World Humanitarian Summit convened this week in Istanbul, Turkey (23-24 May, 2016) to prioritize the world’s youngest nation in the humanitarian interventions.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-20-may-2016/Sat, 21 May 2016 09:42:11 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-20-may-2016/69,000 South Sudanese refugees flood Sudan since January: UN More than 69,000 South Sudanese have arrived in neighbouring Sudan since January, fleeing conflict and food shortages in their war-torn country, the United Nations said. South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 but two years later it fell into a brutal civil war that has killed tens of thousands of civilians.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-may-2016/Fri, 13 May 2016 09:17:45 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-may-2016/South Sudan rival forces attend workshop in Juba South Sudan army (SPLA) factions including those loyal to President Salva Kiir and first vice-president, Riek Machar, attended a workshop in Juba on Thursday on how to provide security to the capital, Juba, where the General headquarters of the two co-national armies are based.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-april-2016/Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:36:24 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-april-2016/US announces $86 million for additional aide to South Sudan United States (US) government has announced additional humanitarian assistance of $86 million to help conflict-affected people in South Sudan, as well as South Sudanese refugees in the region. This new funding, announced on Wednesday, it said will provide much-needed “safe drinking water, emergency health care, nutrition services, shelter, improved sanitation facilities, agricultural training, and seeds, tools, and fishing supplies for the most vulnerable families and communities.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-22-april-2016/Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:56:57 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-22-april-2016/South Sudan Peace Talks Imperiled by New Squabbles A long-awaited peace deal to end the civil war in South Sudan that has killed tens of thousands is being imperiled again, this time mainly by squabbles over how many weapons and soldiers the opposition can bring with it to the capital.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-15-april-2016/Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:26:49 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-15-april-2016/A new dawn after years of wasted lives? As rebel leader Riek Machar prepares for what’s supposed to be a peaceful return to the capital, the cracks in South Sudan’s newly-formed unity government are already beginning to show. Can the warring parties really co-exist again, or is this another false start?https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-8-april-2016/Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:37:11 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-8-april-2016/UN Security Council renews sanctions against those blocking peace in South Sudan The United Nations Security Council Thursday renewed, until 1 June, its sanctions regime imposed last year against those blocking peace in the war-torn country, including a travel ban and a freeze on their assets.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-1-april-2016/Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:50:20 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-1-april-2016/Fleeing hunger, S. Sudanese refugees continue to arrive into Sudan’s Darfur Tens of thousands of South Sudanese from the greater Bhar el Ghazal region have continued to flee to the neighbouring Sudan due to combined threats of conflict and hunger, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Sudan, has reported Thursday.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-march-2016/Fri, 18 Mar 2016 08:39:45 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-march-2016/South Sudan: UN Should Create Rights Monitor The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) should appoint a special rapporteur to monitor and document human rights violations and promote justice in South Sudan. South Sudan’s human rights situation is currently before the council.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-11-march-2016/Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:01:59 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-11-march-2016/South Sudan is dying, and nobody is counting The many ways people have died during South Sudan’s two-year civil war are well-documented, but the number killed is unknown. Men, women and children have been shot, speared, burned, castrated, hung, drowned, run over, suffocated, starved and blown up, their corpses abandoned where they fell, bulldozed into mass graves or, in at least one case, eaten in ritual cannibalism.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-4-march-2016/Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:35:51 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-4-march-2016/South Sudan oil production pollution threatens thousands: monitors Dangerous heavy metals used in oil production in war-torn South Sudan have leaked into drinking water sources used by 180,000 people with life-threatening health risks, a rights group said. Toxicological tests carried out on hair samples from 96 volunteers living around the Thar Jath oil processing plant in South Sudan’s northern Unity region revealed they were “highly intoxicated with pollutants such as lead and barium,” said Klaus Stieglitz, from the German-based Sign of Hope organisation.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-12-february-2016/Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:20:40 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-12-february-2016/South Sudanese president signs NGO Bill into law South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has signed into law the non-governmental oganisation (NGOs) Bill into law, despite global pressure to delay it. The presidential spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny confirmed the Bill’s signing on Thursday.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-2-february-2015/Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:00:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-2-february-2015/African Union Says Crisis in South Sudan Is Worsening A new report written for the African Union and made public on Monday presented an especially grim picture of South Sudan’s civil war, blaming government forces and rebels for the declining humanitarian situation in the world’s newest country.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-10-november-2015/Tue, 10 Nov 2015 07:44:06 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-10-november-2015/Black boxes in S Sudan air crash recovered Investigators in South Sudan have found the two black boxes from a Soviet-era Antonov plane which crashed last week killing at least 36 people, state radio said on Tuesday. Minister of Transport Kuong Danhier Gatluak “admitted the country is not well equipped to handle certain disasters”, state-run Radio Juba said, but added that search teams had recovered the two black boxes from the plane, which smashed into a river bank just after take-off from the capital Juba on November 4.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-27-october-2015/Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:45:04 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-27-october-2015/New peace pact in South Sudan South Sudan’s warring government and rebel forces signed Monday a committment to settle key security sections of a peace deal, despite having broken the pact multiple times. The agreement is hoped to kickstart stalled talks for key military sections of an August 26 deal, including the demilitarisation of the capital Juba, the positions of troops on both sides and steps towards the creation of a unified army.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-20-october-2015/Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:06:10 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-20-october-2015/South Sudanese president orders dismissal of Luka Biong from Juba University South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has given orders to the administration of Juba University to dismiss Luka Biong Deng from his lecturing post at the higher education institution in reaction to a forum that challenged his recent decree to create 28 states as unconstitutional.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-october-2015/Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:35:08 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-october-2015/Ugandan troops withdraw from South Sudan Ugandan troops have started withdrawing from South Sudan to comply with a peace deal between South Sudan’s warring factions, Uganda’s military chief said on Monday. All Ugandan forces - between 2 000 and 3 000 - will have withdrawn from South Sudan by the first week of November, General Katumba Wamala told reporters in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-30-september-2015/Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:05:03 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-30-september-2015/S. Sudanese army abduct 10 girls in Unity state, rebels claim A South Sudanese armed opposition official on Wednesday accused pro-government forces of allegedly abducting 10 girls after military offensives in Geer and Kany-gai villages of Leer county in the oil-rich Unity state.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-16-september-2015/Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:28:42 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-16-september-2015/S. Sudan president says ’fully committed’ to peace agreement but maintains ‘reservations’ South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, has on Tuesday announced that his government would fully implement the recently signed peace agreement, but said will continue to maintain his reservations in the course of implementing the peace deal he signed with his rival and former deputy, Riek Machar.https://www.salo.org.za/consensus-building-dialogue-central-african-republic-sudansouth-sudan-2-september-2015/Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:07:45 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/consensus-building-dialogue-central-african-republic-sudansouth-sudan-2-september-2015/The workshop held in Pretoria on the 2nd of September 2015, discussed the political developments in Central African Republic (CAR), the conclusion of the transitional government, the forthcoming elections in that country and implications for the Sub-region of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-1-september-2015/Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:41:10 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-1-september-2015/South Sudan hints at keeping Ugandan troops despite peace deal South Sudanese government said on Monday that Uganda will not withdraw all its troops from the country as stated in the recently signed peace agreement with armed opposition, claiming the former was in the country at the behest of the latter on bilateral arrangement between two sovereign states.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-25-august-2015/Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:45:35 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-25-august-2015/S Sudan ‘keen’ on mending Sudan ties Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday received a written message from his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir Mayardit dealing with the realisation of peace in the South Sudan and the bilateral ties. The message was delivered to al-Bashir by South Sudan’s Presidential Adviser Tot Galwak who arrived in Khartoum on Monday.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-19-august-2015/Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:01:23 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-19-august-2015/South Sudan refuses to sign peace deal as sanction deadline ends South Sudan’s government refused to sign a peace deal with rebels on Monday despite the threat of international sanctions, but will return to finalise an agreement within 15 days, mediators said.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-july-2015/Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:50:23 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-july-2015/Keeping faith with the IGAD peace process After struggling to secure a deal to end South Sudan’s civil war in the face of deep regional divisions and truculence on the part of the parties, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development has announced a revised, expanded mediation – IGAD.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-16-july-2015/Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:06:06 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-16-july-2015/UN Security Council renews mandate of peacekeeping force in Abyei The UN Security Council on Tuesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Abyei – a contested region bordering Sudan and South Sudan – for five months, until Dec.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-2-july-2015/Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:32:41 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-2-july-2015/UN documents atrocities committed by South Sudan army in Unity state United Nations (UN) investigations uncovered “disturbing” killing of civilians, rapes and abduction in South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state between April and June, according to a statement released on Tuesday. The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said it found “evidence of widespread human rights abuses allegedly committed” by government troops and allied militias.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-25-june-2015/Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:15:26 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-25-june-2015/UN mission reports five people injured in shooting at Juba marketplace The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) today reported that five internally displaced persons (IDPs) – four women and one man – were shot during an incident early Saturday evening.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-june-2015/Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:01:58 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-june-2015/UN vows to support African efforts to end S. Sudan war The United Nations will actively contribute to efforts aimed at finding peaceful solutions to the conflict in South Sudan, Jan Eliasson, the deputy secretary general of the world body told the African Union summit on Sunday.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-11-june-2015/Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:27:06 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-11-june-2015/South Sudan says will not reverse plan to expel U.N. official South Sudan on Tuesday rejected a United Nations appeal to halt the planned expulsion of the world body’s top humanitarian aid official in the country, saying he had regularly spoken out against the government.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-3-june-2015/Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:11:57 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-3-june-2015/South Sudan expels UN humanitarian coordinator South Sudan has decided to expel the world body’s top humanitarian official based in the conflict-torn nation, according to the UN, which called on the government to immediately reverse its decision. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the move by the Juba government to expel the UK’s Toby Lanzer, deputy head of the UN Mission in South Sudan as well as its humanitarian coordinator, the UN said in a statement.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-26-may-2015/Tue, 26 May 2015 12:13:38 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-26-may-2015/Juba welcomes Khartoum leading role in mediation of S. Sudan conflict South Sudanese government on Monday said it welcomed the decision by the East African regional bloc of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which requested the neighbouring Sudan to play a leading role in resolving the ongoing internal conflict in South Sudan.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-april-2015/Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:00:53 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-april-2015/South Sudan rebels say planned leadership meeting on course despite challenges South Sudan’s rebel faction (SPLM-IO) led by former vice-president Riek Machar said a planned consultative leadership meeting was still on track despite reports that it had been cancelled due to logistical challenges.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-1-april-2015/Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:22:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-1-april-2015/South Sudan rejects Troika involvement in peace talks “South Sudan has opposed the direct involvement of United Nations Security Council and the Troika countries in the next round of peace talks. Government spokesperson Michael Makuei said the UN and the Troika countries will continue in their capacities as observers, adding, “but we will not allow them to sit at the negotiation table”.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-6-march-2015/Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:35:02 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-6-march-2015/Warrap youth against imposition of sanctions in S. Sudan The youth union in South Sudan’s Warrap state has strongly opposed United Nations call for sanctions on leaders and entities impeding peace. The UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution creating a framework for a sanctions regime allowing to punish individuals spoiling efforts to end the South Sudanese conflict.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-28-jan-2015/Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:17:49 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-28-jan-2015/Floods hinder relocation of S. Sudanese refugees in Sudan: UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that flooding has hindered transfer of South Sudanese refugees to new relocation sites in Sudan’s White Nile state. Last December, the humanitarian commissioner in Khartoum state, Mustafa al-Sinarri announced the relocation of South Sudanese refugees Khartoum state to the While Nile state, adding it was decided to build new refugees camps near the border.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-16-jan-2015/Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:04:36 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-16-jan-2015/Report counts cost of prolonged war in South Sudan South Sudan’s conflict could cost regional nations Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania a combined $53 billion if it lasts another five years as they deal with refugees, security needs and other spillover effects, a report said on Wednesday.https://www.salo.org.za/a-failure-of-governance-understanding-south-sudans-conflict-dynamics-beyond-the-political-and-humanitarian-crisis-lotje-de-vries-and-peter-hakim-justin/Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:24:30 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/a-failure-of-governance-understanding-south-sudans-conflict-dynamics-beyond-the-political-and-humanitarian-crisis-lotje-de-vries-and-peter-hakim-justin/Read paper below: De Vries & Jusitn 2014 Failure of Governance in South Sudanhttps://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-10-jan-2015/Sat, 10 Jan 2015 09:19:42 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-10-jan-2015/China to send 700 combat troops to South Sudan China is to send 700 combat troops to South Sudan in what analysts describe as a significant shift from its stated policy of non-interference in African conflicts. The first Chinese infantry battalion to take part in a UN peacekeeping mission will be equipped with drones, armoured carriers, antitank missiles, mortars and other weapons, “completely for self-defence purpose”, state media reported.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-5-december-2014/Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:33:37 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-5-december-2014/S. Sudanese opposition leaders against unilateral elections Opposition leader from various political parties in South Sudanese have warned against any attempt to conduct unilateral and partial elections in the country before the ongoing conflict is comprehensively and peacefully settled. “Any attempt to carry out partial elections is a recipe for the escalation of war as the other warring party will try its best to interrupt the elections while the government mobilises its resources to see the process through," the parties said in statement extended to Sudan Tribune.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-november-2014/Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:52:02 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-29-november-2014/South Sudan warns U.N. that sanctions could fuel confrontation South Sudan warned the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that imposing sanctions to try to end nearly a year of violence in the world’s youngest state would likely “harden positions towards confrontation rather than cooperation.https://www.salo.org.za/womens-network-conduct-training-on-the-different-mechanisms-csos-can-use-to-promote-gender-equality-peace-and-security-report-by-lihle-mabuza/Sat, 22 Nov 2014 09:24:11 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/womens-network-conduct-training-on-the-different-mechanisms-csos-can-use-to-promote-gender-equality-peace-and-security-report-by-lihle-mabuza/Victoria Maloka (trainer), Senior Associate, Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA),Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria On the 19th and 20th of November 2014, the Women’s Network Working Group conducted training on the different mechanisms CSO’s can use to promote gender equality, peace and security.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-november-2014/Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:55:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-november-2014/UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief to Visit S. Sudan The UN deputy humanitarian chief Kyung-Wha Kang will undertake a three-day visit to visit South to draw attention to the humanitarian effects of its current crisis and to mobilise support to scale up and expand critical aid operations.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-31-oct-2014/Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:23:39 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-31-oct-2014/President to Visit Khartoum On Saturday South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, will arrive in Khartoum on Saturday to discuss outstanding issues between the two countries and the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. Sudan’s foreign minister, Ali Karti, said in press statements on Wednesday that Kiir will arrive in Khartoum on Saturday, adding “the visit was previously delayed due to health conditions of the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir not for any political reasons”.https://www.salo.org.za/au-commission-of-inquiry-on-south-sudan/Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:48:41 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/au-commission-of-inquiry-on-south-sudan/FINAL REPORT OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON SOUTH SUDAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FINAL REPORT OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON SOUTH SUDAN A Separate Opinionhttps://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-26-september-2014/Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:15:59 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-26-september-2014/S. Sudan rebel faction welcomes AU, ICC investigations into rights abuses A senior South Sudanese rebel official said they have no objection to an investigation into alleged human right violations committed during the more than nine-month-long armed conflict with the government.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-14-august-2014/Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:33:12 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-14-august-2014/South Sudan Kiir offers to appoint Machar second VP South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir on Sunday said opposition leader, Riek Machar could become the country’s second vice-president, if he agrees to join his government. Speaking at Juba airport on arrival from the United States where he attended the U.https://www.salo.org.za/womens-day-policy-dialogue-thursday-7th-august-2014/Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:48:11 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/womens-day-policy-dialogue-thursday-7th-august-2014/“Women and Children in Conflict Situations: Gaza, Sudan/South Sudan and the Central African Republic” Date: Thursday 7 August 2014 Venue: Burgers Park Hotel, 424 Lilian Ngoyi St (Van der Walt Street), Pretoria Ms Venitia Govender - South Africa Office, Crisis Action; a founding member of SALO; and a South African activist From left to right: Ms Zeenat Adam – International Relations Strategist; former Director: Horn of Africa and Indian Ocean Islands, DIRCO; Ms Pregs Govender – Deputy Chair: South African Human Rights Commission; former ANC MP and Chair of Parliament’s Committee on Woman (‘96 - 02); SALO reference group member; Ms Litlhare Rabele – Programme Coordinator: Peace, Security and Gender, HURISA Ambassador Sikose Mji – Chief Director: Central Africa, Department of International Relations and Cooperation Ms Carmen Smith – ANC International Relations, South South Cooperationhttps://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-31-july-2014/Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:17:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-31-july-2014/South Sudan Says It’s Ready to Resume Peace Talks With Rebels South Sudan on Monday expressed readiness to resume peace negotiations with the rebel faction of the SPLM under the leadership of the former vice-president, Riek Machar, downplaying the likely implications of recent military engagement in Upper Nile and Jonglei states.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-july-2014/Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:11:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-18-july-2014/No quick solution to South Sudan’s crisis As peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels in Addis Ababa stall yet again, aid agencies warn that the crisis is driving the nation to famine. Are flaws in the implementation of earlier deals to blame?https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-11-july-2014/Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:30:58 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-11-july-2014/South Sudan president sets conditions for Ugandan military withdrawal South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has set the conditions for the withdrawal of Ugandan troops from the country, saying the latter will only leave if a permanent peace agreement is attained. President Kiir made the remarks on Wednesday at an occasion marking the third anniversary of the country’s independence from neighbouring Sudan, from which it seceded on 9 July 2011.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-4-july-2014/Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:11:26 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-4-july-2014/S. Sudanese security block UN staff from leaving Juba airport South Sudanese security officials on Monday temporarily detained and eventually prevented four national staff working for the United Nations Mission in the country (UNMISS) from leaving Juba airport after confiscating their passports and identity cards.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-30-june-2014/Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:32:12 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-30-june-2014/Dissident South Sudan army general rejects separate peace talks A South Sudanese army general who switched allegiance and joined rebel forces under the leadership of the former vice-president Riek Machar said he had rejected separate peace talks with the government. Sudan Tribunehttps://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-june-2014/Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:34:49 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-13-june-2014/S.Sudan president accepts internal reconciliation within ruling party South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has agreed to internal discussions and reconciliation within the leadership of his governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), describing it as one of the biggest strengths of the party since its establishment.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-6-june-2014/Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:16:57 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-6-june-2014/China takes more assertive line in South Sudan diplomacy China is swapping its reserved diplomacy for a hands-on approach to help resolve a more than five-month-old rebellion in South Sudan that threatens Beijing’s oil investments. The subtle change has been evident in months of faltering peace talks in the Ethiopian capital, where Chinese officials have been in regular contact with Western diplomats to help regional African mediators push for a halt to fighting.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-30-may-2014/Fri, 30 May 2014 11:31:09 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-30-may-2014/South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar in Kenyan talks South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar has held talks with Kenya’s leader in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. He was briefing President Uhuru Kenyatta on the latest moves to end the conflict in South Sudan where more than a million people have fled their homes since fighting erupted in December.https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-a-civil-war-by-any-other-name-crisis-group-africa-report-n217-10-april-2014/Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:44:38 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-sudan-a-civil-war-by-any-other-name-crisis-group-africa-report-n217-10-april-2014/Executive Summary: On 15 December 2013 the world’s newest state descended into civil war. Continuing fighting has displaced more than 1,000,000 and killed over 10,000 while a humanitarian crisis threatens many more. Both South Sudanese and the international community were ill-prepared to prevent or halt the conflict: the nation’s closest allies did little to mediate leadership divisions within the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement’s (SPLM).https://www.salo.org.za/sudan-south-africa-and-the-african-union-mediation-process/Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:09:27 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/sudan-south-africa-and-the-african-union-mediation-process/Summary of Proceedings - Roundtable Discussions 05 December 2013 Introduction SALO hosted a visiting delegation of civil society representatives from South Kordofan in Sudan to participate in a Building International Consensus roundtable dialogue focused on the humanitarian situation in South Kordofan and Blue Nile and the unfolding mediation process led by the African union High Level Implementation panel.https://www.salo.org.za/salo-policy-dialogue-reports-on-sudan/Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:05:24 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/salo-policy-dialogue-reports-on-sudan/SALO’s Building International, Regional and National Consensus policy dialogue sessions bring together national, regional and international stakeholders, including civil society, policymakers and diplomats, to encourage greater North/ South policy dialogue and to discuss ways they can engage moving forward on issues of importance in Southern Africa in particular.