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A Violent Kind of Ceasefire

by Richard Stupart | Published 11 February 2014

Despite a recently signed, and barely honoured ceasefire, the positions of Riek Machar and Salva Kiir remain apparently irreconcilable, while evidence of organised massacres and looting continue to emerge from Juba, Bor and elsewhere. Richard Stupart discusses the state of the South Sudanese conflict with journalist Adriane Ohanesian in the first of a two-part podcast on the region. Part two can be found here.

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South Sudan: A violent kind of ceasefire

South Sudan's political crisis and subsequent fighting, which started in Juba over a month ago, has left in its wake almost half a million uprooted from their homes; thousands dead and scores injured. The escalating internal conflict and violence across many parts of the world's newest country, which gained independence almost three years ago, has pitted pro and anti government forces has also forced some 85,000 Southern Sudanese to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, roughly half of those in Uganda. A team from the European Commission's Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO), visited the northern border between South Sudan and Uganda, Elegu, where up to 2,500 Southern Sudanese are arriving daily as well as refugee reception centres and settlements in Adjumani in northern and Kiryandondo in central Uganda. European Commission DG ECHO
South Sudan’s political crisis and subsequent fighting, which started in Juba over a month ago, has left in its wake almost half a million uprooted from their homes; thousands dead and scores injured. The escalating internal conflict and violence across many parts of the world’s newest country, which gained independence almost three years ago, has pitted pro and anti government forces has also forced some 85,000 Southern Sudanese to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, roughly half of those in Uganda. European Commission DG ECHO
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