Strategic Thinking on East Africa

The Guardian Vice-president Riek Machar denies knowledge of article that appeared to call on the world to support reconciliation rather than focus on human rights abuses The South Sudan president, Salva Kiir, right, and the former rebel leader and now first vice-president, Riek Machar, attend a government ceremony in Juba. Photograph: Phillip Dhil/EPA Sam Jones […]

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The New York Times By SALVA KIIR and RIEK MACHAR JUBA, South Sudan — Building a nation is not an easy task. We know this because it is our life’s work. We once fought together as brothers to win independence for South Sudan from the north. When our new country was born in 2011, we […]

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National Public Radio MARC SILVER A woman walks between two of the tents that house the hospital wards. Most of the camp’s residents are women and children. David Gilkey/NPR For five days and five nights in February, NPR reporters Jason Beaubien and Kelly McEvers were “embedded” with Doctors Without Borders in the middle of nowhere. […]

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New York Times By JACEY FORTIN   Displaced people waiting this month in Wau, South Sudan, to register with aid organizations. The country has, at least officially, emerged from more than two years of civil war that killed tens of thousands of people and displaced over two million. CreditAlbert Gonzalez Farran/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images […]

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International Crisis Group Africa Report N°23625 May 2016 AFP/Samir Bol EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The formation of a transitional government following Riek Machar’s return to Juba in April marked the most significant milestone of the August 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS) that ended the twenty-month […]

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Image copyrightReutersImage 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 take […]

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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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