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War-torn south Sudan debates bill on extending president’s term
:: South Sudan has started debating a bill extending the tenure of the interim government headed by President Salva Kiir by three years at a time when it is trying to negotiate peace with rebels. Gabriel Roricjur, the leader of
South Sudan’s opposition figure ‘not dead politically’: UN
South Sudan’s exiled opposition figure Riek Machar “is not dead politically,” United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Friday as the country’s vice president accused Machar of attempting to overthrow President Salva Kiir in July. Political rivalry between Kiir
Over 200,000 S. Sudanese sheltering from war inside U.N. bases
Over 200,000 South Sudanese civilians are sheltering inside U.N. camps from civil war, the United Nations said Monday, a bleak barometer of ongoing conflict despite peace efforts. The figures, among the highest in over two years of civil war and
‘Children massacred’ in South Sudan battles
Dozens of children have been killed in fighting in South Sudan, where battles rage despite political deals to end almost two years of civil war, the United Nations has said. The U.N. said that fighting in the northern battleground state
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