Permalink Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013, South Sudan February 28, 2014(Nyamilepedia) — South Sudan is a republic operating under a transitional constitution signed into law upon declaration of independence from Sudan in July 2011. The country was led by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, whose…
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U.N. official decries ‘summarily execution’ in S. Sudan’s Malakal
Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit and Mr. Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General/ UN Resident Coordinator/ UNDP Resident Representative shake hands, Juba, Nov 2012(UNDP). February 28, 2014 [JUBA] — The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan on Thursday decried the recent “terrible” attacks against Malakal, capital of South Sudan’s Upper Nile State.…
Jok: Near Collapse in South Sudan Is Shocking but Not Surprising
Panel Discussions, International Peace Institute, IPI February 27, 2014[IPI] — The events that recently brought South Sudan to a near collapse were “extremely shocking, but they were not surprising by any means,” said Jok Madut Jok, Executive Director of The Sudd Institute, at the International Peace Institute on February 18. “It was only a matter…
