By JOSPHAT KASIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 13, 2014 (Leer, South Sudan) — Bodies stuffed in wells. Houses burned down. Children playing on military hardware. And infants showing the skeletal outlines of severe hunger. These are the scenes from a remote part of South Sudan — Leer — where Doctors Without Borders has just begun feeding…
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The Legal Implications of Violating the Law of War
By Ogeno Jackson Ambrose, Esq. Opinion May 12, 2014(Nyamilepedia) — In the Pre-19th Century, the limitation on the conduct of armed conflicts varied immensely and dependant on time, place and the Countries or Parties involved but the 19th Century ushered a successful effort to create a set of internationally recognized laws governing the conduct and…
Ethiopian leader ‘threatened to jail Riek and Kiir’ to secure South Sudan ceasefire
May 12, 2014(Juba) — Hailemariam Desalegn, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, threatened to detain South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar and even the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir in order to pressure them into signing a ceasefire, the latter has claimed. Although Kiir described the threat against himself as a joke, he implied that…
