July 8, 2014(Olympic – Nanjing) — In keeping with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s continued support of the athletes and fledgling sports movement of South Sudan, the IOC Executive Board today agreed to provide an additional place at the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in 2014 for one South Sudanese athlete in athletics.…
Category: South Sudan
Conflict Alert: Halting South Sudan’s Spreading Civil War
July 8, 2014(Juba, Brussels) — The war between the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/SPLA) government and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) that began in Juba in December and spread to the three Greater Upper Nile states (Jonglei, Upper Nile and Unity) is in danger of escalation, including more atrocities and famine. As…
Dozens of children buried in Bentiu
July 8, 2014(Bentiu) — Gravediggers in South Sudan say they have buried over 200 people in a displaced camp in Bentiu over the past few months, most of them children. Every day several children are usually buried, having died of disease or malnutrition. A journalist reporting for the Dutch radio station Radio EenVandaag, said that…
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