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…
US transfers aid for South Sudan to Igad
By KEVIN J. KELLEY U.S. Army soldiers of the East Africa Response Force (EARF), a Djibouti-based joint team assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, prepare to load onto a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, to support with an ordered departure of personnel from Juba, South Sudan, Dec. 18, 2013.…
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