In a recent statement, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir sparked controversy by claiming that extending the transitional government of national unity would lead to violence in the country. As a human rights defender, I strongly disagree with this assertion, and instead, believe it is a desperate attempt to maintain power and avoid accountability. President Kiir’s […]
In Kapoeta East, intercommunal violence claimed one life and injured two.
New conflicts between the Bunno and Nyangiya clans of the Toposa community in Kapoeta East County, Eastern Equatoria State, resulted in at least one fatality and two injuries. Using cannons, arrows, and spears, the two sides have been launching counterattacks against each other nonstop. According to reports, three kids vanished during an attack at Kochokio […]
Before elections, a peace implementation group discusses the constitution
Peace implementation body discusses constitution ahead of elections
After three months, the Sudanese Army frees activist Hatim Ayoub
After three months of incarceration, political analyst and civic activist Hatim Ayoub Abu Al-Hassan was released by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Thursday. After SAF Special Forces searched Abu Al-Hassan’s house in the Al-Feteehab neighbourhood, he was taken into the Army Prison in Omdurman and placed under arrest. In a statement to Radio Tamazuj, […]
Investigation into SSPDF shooting in Abyei is demanded by civil society
The South Sudan People’s Defence Force (SSPDF) is being urged to look into the “attempted murder of the Abyei Special Administrative Area Minister of Local Government and Rumamer County commissioner” as soon as possible by the Abyei Civil Society Organisation (ACSO). Ayuel Kiir, the commissioner of Rumamer County, was reportedly shot at by SSPDF forces […]
28 killed in a paramilitary attack on a Sudanese community
State of Red Sea, Sudan —A local doctors’ group said on Sunday that at least 28 people had been slain by Sudanese paramilitary troops in a raid on a community south of the capital, Khartoum. The Sudan Doctors Committee said in a statement that on Saturday, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conducted a “massacre” in […]