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In photos: Faces of poverty in Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan

#INCwalktofightpoverty According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, an estimated 63 percent of the population in Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan is experiencing severe food scarcity. The situation is particularly bad in Aweil West and Aweil South counties, where the exhaustion of household food stocks and growing dependence on financially inaccessible markets have left the population facing Emergency levels of food insecurity. Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP © Agence France-Presse

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Oxfam faces South Sudan abuse claim as sex scandal widens

  by Dario Thuburn Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Scandal-hit British charity Oxfam was reeling Tuesday after fresh claims of sexual assault and cover-up in South Sudan, as Haiti’s president condemned the behavior of some of its staff in his country as “undignified and dishonest”. The latest revelations by Helen Evans, former global head of safeguarding, heaped pressure on chief executive Mark Goldring just hours after his deputy resigned over a scandal […]

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EU vows to aid Sudan for ‘as long as it takes’

by Jay Deshmukh and Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali Agence France-Presse KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — Even as global donors reduce their aid offerings to war-torn Sudan, the European Union has vowed to provide the African country with humanitarian assistance for “as long as it takes.” On Monday, the EU offered a new 106-million-euro ($124 million) aid package to Sudan at a time when the United Nations has managed to raise only 39 percent of its overall 2017 aid appeal […]

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UN rights team says ‘ethnic cleansing’ under way in S.Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan (AFP) – UN human rights experts on Thursday said “ethnic cleansing” was under way in South Sudan after visiting the country where violence has soared since a peace deal collapsed in July. “There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages; everywhere we went across this country we heard villagers saying they are ready to shed […]

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International community slams fresh call for war in S.Sudan

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) – The international community on Thursday hit out at a call from South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar for renewed war with the government, raising concerns about heavy fighting in recent weeks. Machar, the former vice president, last month urged “a popular armed resistance” against his rival Salva Kiir’s government, in a statement from Khartoum where he is in exile. In a  joint statement, the European Union, Norway, the United States and […]

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Disease outbreak kills 19 in rain-hit Sudan: minister

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — An outbreak of water-borne disease has killed at least 19 people and sickened scores more in Sudan’s rain-ravaged states of Blue Nile and Kasala, a minister said Monday. Since June, heavy rain and flooding have hit several states of Sudan, killing at least 100 people, destroying thousands of homes and submerging many villages. “In the past three weeks, 19 people including children have died from water-borne diseases like diarrhea,” Health Minister Bahar […]

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Sudan floods kill 100, destroy villages: officials

    by Ashraf Shazly KASALA, Sudan (AFP) — Thousands of houses have been destroyed and several villages submerged after flooding triggered by torrential rainfall killed 100 people across Sudan, officials and an AFP photographer said on Sunday. Thousands of people in the impoverished eastern state of Kasala bordering Eritrea fled their homes after the river Gash burst its banks, flooding entire villages inhabited by farmers. Many people were sheltering in makeshift grass huts on […]

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UN seeks to raise $952 mln in aid for Sudan

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) – The United Nations Tuesday launched a global appeal for $952 million to fund Sudan’s humanitarian needs in 2016, most of it to help people affected by the deadly conflict in Darfur. The much delayed appeal expects to address the humanitarian needs of up to 4.6 million people, including tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees who have entered Sudan to escape the violence and food shortages in their country. “Women, men, refugees […]

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South African court orders indicted Sudanese leader not to leave

A South African court issued an interim order on Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir leaving the country, where he was attending an African Union summit, until the judge hears an application calling for his arrest. Bashir is accused in an International Criminal Court arrest warrant of war crimes and crimes against humanity over atrocities in the Darfur conflict. Judge Hans Fabricuis said if Bashir was allowed to leave the country it would damage South […]

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