List of South Sudan articles
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TOPSHOT - soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) celebrate while standing in trenches in Lelo, outside Malakal, northern South Sudan, on October 16, 2016. Heavy fighting broke out on Ocotober 14 between SPLA (Government) and opposition forces in Wajwok and Lalo villages, outside Malakal. SPLA commanders claim they succeeded to keep their positions and assure their forces just responded "on self defence". / AFP / Albert Gonzalez Farran (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Push to Halt Genocide in South Sudan Unravels at United Nations
The Security Council is balking at an arms embargo that is too little, too late for the world’s youngest nation.
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TOPSHOT - soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) celebrate while standing in trenches in Lelo, outside Malakal, northern South Sudan, on October 16, 2016. Heavy fighting broke out on Ocotober 14 between SPLA (Government) and opposition forces in Wajwok and Lalo villages, outside Malakal. SPLA commanders claim they succeeded to keep their positions and assure their forces just responded "on self defence". / AFP / Albert Gonzalez Farran (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Chief Fires His Top Peacekeeping Commander in South Sudan
A scathing internal investigation details multiple failings by U.N. blue helmets to protect civilians during July violence in Juba.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-ER Why Do Internationally Backed Peace Processes Fail?
FP staffers talk about their reporting on the ground in South Sudan and Colombia and how war crimes, revolution, women, and Washington all played a role in those countries’ faltering peace processes.
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Peacekeeping troops from China, deployed by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), patrol outside the premises of the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba on October 4, 2016. According to the UN, due to the increase of sexual violence outside the PoC, UNMISS has intensified its patrols in and around the protection sites, as well as in the wider Juba city area, sometimes arranging special escorts for women and young girls. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Attacks on U.N. Could Imperil Future Peacekeeping
Since violence flared this summer, South Sudanese government forces have mounted increasingly brutal attacks against U.N. workers.
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers wear the sky-blue United Nations (UN) patch signifying membership in a Chinese peacekeeping unit destined for Darfur in the Sudan along with the Chinese flag on their uniforms, at their base in China's central Henan province 15 September 2007. A 315-member engineering unit is shipping out next month in China's latest attempt to play down accusations it is worsening Darfur's agony by supporting the Khartoum regime. The unit will build bridges and roads, dig wells and perform other tasks as they showed they mean business at the military training facility. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) China Eyes Ending Western Grip on Top U.N. Jobs With Greater Control Over Blue Helmets
As China steps up its commitment to U.N. peacekeeping, Beijing is said to be eyeing a leadership role — with potentially troubling human rights implications.
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KHARTOUM, SUDAN - AUGUST 22: Vice President of South Sudan Taban Deng Gai (R) holds a press conference after his meeting with President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir (not seen) at Presidential Palace in Khartoum, Sudan on August 22, 2016. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) South Sudan VP Blames Former Rebel Leader for Unrest
Riek Machar's replacement in the transitional government claims the former rebel leader never accepted his subordinate role, and tried to play "parallel president."
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First Vice President of South Sudan and former rebel leader, Riek Machar (L), and President Salva Kiir (R), sit for an official photo with the 30 members of the new cabinet of the Transitional Government at the Cabinet Affairs Ministry, in Juba on April 29, 2016. The new cabinet of the Transitional Government includes former rebels and members of the opposition, a step forward in a drawn-out peace process aimed at ending more than two years of conflict. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Leaders Made War — and Many Millions of Dollars
A new report found that while civilians were being killed, South Sudanese leaders were making millions.
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U.S. special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth (C-L) speaks to reporters following a meeting in Khartoum on September 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) State Department Says South Sudanese Rebel Leader Should No Longer Try to Return to Power
After attacks on Americans, the State Department envoy to South Sudan faced a tough crowd on Capitol Hill.
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In a photo taken on March 15, 2016 US soldiers of the 13th and 31st Marine Expeditionary Units gather after arriving on shore during a joint military exercise with South Korea entitled 'Ssang Yong', near the southeastern port city of Pohang. Ssang Yong, meaning 'twin dragons', is a biennial military exercise 'focused on strengthening the amphibious landing capabilities of the U.S. and its allies', according to the US Pacific Command. The 11-day exercise brings together US Marines of the 13th and 31st Marine Expeditionary Units and their South Korean counterparts. On March 12, North Korea hit out at Washington and Seoul, pledging to launch a blitzkrieg in the Korean peninsula, with the official KCNA news agency, citing a statement from military chiefs, warning of a "pre-emptive retaliatory strike at the enemy groups" involved in the joint US-South Korean exercise. / AFP / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: U.S. Marines Scramble in South Sudan; Chinese Coast Guard Flexes Muscles
The Politics of Defense; North Korean Missiles; And Lots More
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US President Barack Obama shows the way to South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit September 21, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) Dinner, Drinks, and a Near-Fatal Ambush for U.S. Diplomats
President Salva Kiir has been feted by the White House. So why are his goons trying to kill American officials in South Sudan?
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TOPSHOT - A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier holds a gun at a containment site outside Juba on April 14, 2016. The soldiers at the site are the Tiger Battalion of the presidential guard consisting of a total of 700 soldiers. The site is about 30 km outside of Juba as per the transitional security arrangements of the South Sudan peace agreement. The demilitarisation of Juba is an important part of the peace agreement of the cessation of hostilities signed in August 2015 and seen as a way forward to forming the transitional government of national unity. This has also been a sticking point before the return of Rebel leader Riek Machar who is due to be sworn in as the country's Vice President. / AFP / cds / SAMIR BOL (Photo credit should read SAMIR BOL/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Congressman to South Sudan: Implement Zero Tolerance on Rape or Face the Consequences
A U.S. congressman traveled to South Sudan and urged the government there to implement zero-tolerance policies on rape.
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This photo taken on June 15, 2012, at the Jamam refugee camp, shows mothers queueing at a Medecin Sans Frontiere (MSF) field hospital in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, where over 100,000 refugees have fled conflict in Sudan's Blue Nile state since September. MSF says malnutrition in refugee camps is way above emergency levels and especially amongst under five year-olds, that suffer dehydration and diarrhoea from a lack of clean water. AFP PHOTO/Hannah McNEISH (Photo credit should read HANNAH MCNEISH/AFP/GettyImages) They Ran to the U.N. for Help. They Got Tear-Gassed Instead.
South Sudan's peacekeepers not only failed to protect civilians during the country's latest round of violence — it put them in even greater danger.
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Members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) stand guard at the military site in Juba, after the arrival of new troops and their chief of staff on April 25, 2016. Rebel spokesman William Ezekiel said that 195 troops landed along with South Sudan's top rebel military commander Simon Gatwech Dual, to provide security for Machar, who he said hoped to return on April 26. Some of the rebel troops looked visibly nervous, but others were more cheerful and raised fists into the air as their leader shouted "Viva SPLA, viva SPLM!" -- the acronym for the army and ruling party divided by the war. / AFP / Charles Lomodong (Photo credit should read CHARLES LOMODONG/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: “There’s no Delta Force Residing at the Embassy,” Russia Says Syria Strikes Legit
NSA Hack; Aleppo Burning; And Lots More
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hxdgjncgjmndtyj The U.S. Helped Birth South Sudan. Now Americans Are Being Beaten and Targeted by Its Troops.
A brutal assault on American and other foreign aid workers in Juba marks a new low for a supposed U.S. ally and the state of U.N. peacekeeping.
