UNITED NATIONS — The UN humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that unless the Saudi-led military coalition lifts its blockade on Yemen the war-torn nation will face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims.”
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The Trump Administration announced that it is permanently lifting some sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Sudan this month, extending and enhancing Obama-era Sudan policy.
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AFP — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Sunday declared Sudan the 39th province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, six years after the predominantly Christian south gained independence from the north. The Anglican church in Sudan, a majority Muslim country,
Amnesty International released a report on Monday warning of sexual violence “on a massive scale” in South Sudan, leaving thousands to battle “mental distress and stigma with nowhere to turn for help.”
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In late March, speaking with barely controlled anger, Dutch Minister for International Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen told Dutch TV, “The leaders of South Sudan are bastards who starve their own people!”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing has changed in Sudan since the United States labeled atrocities against non-Arab villagers in the country’s Darfur region a “genocide” more than a decade ago, proclaimed an activist at a congressional panel.
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ROME (AP) – Pope Francis says he’s studying the possibility of going to South Sudan, the East African nation suffering famine and civil war. Francis said while visiting an Anglican church in Rome on Sunday that Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic
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For the first time since the end of World War II, Japanese forces have been deployed abroad with a mandate to use force.
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South Sudan’s rebel chief who leads defected soldiers and militias linked to the second-largest tribe in the country, the Nuer, has reportedly fled to a safer country, the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after an alleged assassination attempt.
Troops loyal to the U.S.-backed government of South Sudan have reportedly embarked on a rampage of rape and murder, targeting civilians — a testament to the mayhem that has spread across the world’s youngest country, the birth of which the Obama administration helped midwife.
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The United States military in Africa has deployed 47 troops described by President Barack Obama as “equipped for combat” to protect American personnel and facilities in Juba, the capital of civil-war-ravaged South Sudan, the White House and U.S. Africa Command have announced.
It remains uncertain how long a shaky ceasefire will hold in South Sudan, a nation that the Obama administration helped birth.
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Breitbart News Senior Editor Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, appeared on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the FBI investigation into Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime operative of the Clintons.
A talented “teenage” basketball player who arrived in Canada from the African state of South Sudan has had his dreams shattered after immigration authorities revealed he was actually a 30-year-old man. Jonathan Nicola arrived in the country in November as
The Obama administration’s DHS is extending and re-designating South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status, allowing foreign nationals from South Sudan to legally remain and work in the U.S.
A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.
In a report released Thursday, the African Union has accused soldiers in South Sudan’s civil war of a harrowing list of atrocities against civilians, including rape, mutilation, burning alive, and forced cannibalism.
One woman was abducted by soldiers and taken to a military camp, tied up and raped repeatedly for two months. Another was kidnapped with her 15-year-old sister and raped every night for five nights. A third was taken to a
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is reporting that Pastor Michael and Pastor Pete, two Sudanese Christian pastors, face the death penalty after a judge charged them with numerous offenses. Now it is up to the defense to prove their innocence.
The latest report from the United Nations on South Sudan states the armed forces raped and burned females alive. The world’s newest country is still in a civil war.
According to Anthony Lake, the executive director of The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), children in South Sudan face brutal violence in their everyday lives as the world’s newest country continues to fight a civil war.