Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Image copyrightReuters Image captionRiek Machar (c) was greeted at the airport before heading to be sworn in as vice-president South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar has been sworn in as vice-president in a boost for a peace deal aimed at ending more than two years of conflict. He returned earlier to the capital, Juba, to […]

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A man watches the news about Riek Machar’s delayed return in Juba, South Sudan, April 20. The rebel leader’s return to the capital has been consistently delayed and could put South Sudan’s fragile peace deal under strain.CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES   A full week after he was scheduled to touch down in the capital Juba […]

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From geeskaafrika.com ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 20, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security NewsA deadly cross-border raid from South Sudan into Ethiopia’s western Gambella Region last Friday has left scores dead and prompted the Ethiopian government to declare two days of national mourning. Officially, the Ethiopian government says 13 villages were attacked, leaving 182 civilians dead along […]

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Disagreement over weapons is preventing rebel leader from returning to Juba to form unity government, officials say. Justin Lynch | A disagreement over weapons is preventing South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar from returning to Juba, according to demands from a government official and a rebel spokesman. Since December 2013, South Sudan has been crippled […]

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Why did a group of South Sudanese people cross the border into western Ethiopia and start shooting mothers and abducting their children? Nyruach Lam, 30, at Gambella hospital in Gambella town, Ethiopia, on 17 April. On the bed is her daughter, Beyang Luk, 14. Beyang was shot in the leg as she and her mother […]

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FILE - South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, left, accompanied by army chief of staff Paul Malong Awan, waves during an independence day ceremony in the capital Juba, South Sudan, July 9, 2015. Peter Clottey April 10, 2016 10:18 AM South Sudan’s opposition faction is calling recent comments by the country’s army chief of staff, “anti-peace […]

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BY KATY MIGIRO NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A record 5.8 million people in South Sudan or half its population do not know where their next meal will come from as conflict and poor rains have increased cereal prices by nearly five-fold in a year, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Hunger in South Sudan […]

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Faced with a problem like South Sudan, which from the outside seems an intractable morass of personal rivalries, ethnic and religious divisions, and senseless brutality, it is tempting to put your hands in the air and say: ‘There is nothing we can do.’ Often, that’s exactly the reaction of people unaffected by the conflict, which […]

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  GENEVA (11 March 2016) – A new report on South Sudan published Friday by the UN Human Rights Office describes “in searing detail” a multitude of horrendous human rights violations, including a Government-operated “scorched earth policy,” and deliberate targeting of civilians for killing, rape and pillage. Although all parties to the conflict have committed […]

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While thousands of people wait for food supplies, water and healthcare, aid trucks face difficulties accessing various parts of the country. Waiting and hoping: People in need for food air-drops in Thonyor, South Sudan The United Nations (UN) has accused South Sudan’s government as well as forces loyal to Riek Machar to have blocked trucks […]

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