The EastAfrican54m
Unpacked: The escalating violence in South Sudan
A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a ...
Violence in South Sudan is rising again: what’s different this time, and how to avoid civil war
The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...
Airstrike kills 19 in South Sudan as conflict with White Army intensifies
The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly ...
Human Rights Watch8y
Main Rebel and Militia Forces in Southern Sudan Named in this Report
Sudan People’s Defense Forces/Democratic Front ... Paulino Matiep of the Sudan army, incorporating his formerly Anyanya II and SSDF Bul Nuer forces, supported by the Sudan government, based ...
Human Rights Watch9y
Background and Context
[25] In 1998 the federal government forced the Anuak-dominated GPLM to merge with the mainly Nuer Gambella Peoples Democratic Unity Party (GPDUP) into the Gambella People’s Democratic Front (GPDF).
U.S. News & World Report2d
Airstrike Kills at Least 19 in South Sudan Town, Residents Say
a loosely organised group mostly comprising armed ethnic Nuer youths, had threatened to reignite the 2013-2018 civil war in which hundreds of thousands of people died. The government accuses the ...