Sixteen people have been killed, including Ukraine’s interior affairs minister, after a helicopter crashed beside a kindergarten in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.
Continue reading Tragedy: Ukraine Ministers killed as helicopter comes down near nursery
Authorities in Jonglei on Wednesday airlifted more than sixty abductees including women and children from the state to the greater Pibor area.
These were captives of the Christmas eve inter-communal violence between the neighboring communities.
Jonglei State Information Minister says 43 of the recovered 65 abductees are children and the rest are women.
John Samuel Manyuon says this was after the state government persuaded the armed youth to hand over the survivors.
“Today the government of Jonglei state handed over 65 abductees including women and children. About 24 women and 41 children recovered from the abduction,
“We had to negotiate and in fact, they listened to us and gave us the children. So we have handed over these children to the leadership of Greater Pibor,
“This was through negotiation with the [youth ] representatives who are their leaders…because this is a crime and that is not acceptable.”
When contacted, authorities in Pibor confirmed the handover of the abductees, adding that some of the victims have been reunited with their families.
But William Kelang Jiji said at the time of the interview they were expecting a few more others.
“So the last flight has returned back to bring the other remaining abductees.”
Last week, the government of Jonglei State negotiated the release of six children abducted from the Pibor Administrative Area by Jonglei armed youth in the area.
The unnamed children are four girls and two boys, aged between 2 to 13 years.
The high court in Yambio, Western Equatoria State has sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 35-year-old woman in August last year. Continue reading Three Yambio men face hangman’s noose for murder
At least three people have died, and eight others injured in Central Equatoria State’s Mangala Payam following clashes between cattle keepers and the locals. Continue reading At least three dead, eight injured in Mangala clashes
Authorities in Upper Nile State have said they cannot, by themselves, help resolve ongoing conflicts in the Chollo Kingdom, saying they have no power over the SSPDF forces stationed there.
Continue reading We’re helpless, says Upper Nile gov’t on crisis in Chollo Kingdom
Kenyan President, William Samoei Ruto, has arrived in the capital Juba for a one-day state visit, according to media reports. Continue reading Kenyan President William Ruto in Juba for bilateral talks
Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street
She said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as Tory leader and had notified the King that she was resigning
There will be a Conservative leadership election to be completed within the next week, she said
“I will remain as Prime Minister until a successor has been chosen.”
Her departure after 45 days in the office makes her the shortest-serving PM in UK history.
Truss’s premiership has been in turmoil since her mini-budget last month, which rocked markets and was later scrapped by her new chancellor
The resignation of her home secretary on Wednesday and a chaotic vote in the Commons sealed her fate
The United States Agency for International Development says it is assisting internally displaced persons who fled violence in Tonga and Panyikang areas in Upper Nile with food and non-food items.
In a post on its official social media page Wednesday, USAID says that the recent fighting between armed groups in Tonga and Panyikang County in Upper Nile has displaced tens of thousands of civilians from the areas.
“We’re assisting IDPs with shelter, food, medicine & water, sanitation & hygiene,” the statement read.
According to USAID, with about 50,000 internally displaced persons in the PoC site there, overcrowding exacerbates disease outbreak risks.
The agency said its team visited Malakal to monitor humanitarian assistance in and around the protection site in the area.
Its statement comes a day after the U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan said he was in Malakal town last Thursday, where he met with residents, USAID implementing partners, and UNMISS personnel.
Ambassador Adler also visited medical facilities and a food warehouse supported by U.S. assistance.
The Ambassador also visited sites where victims of sexual exploitation and gender-based violence receive assistance and are learning income-generating skills.
During his visit, Adler discussed efforts to provide aid to those displaced by severe subnational violence in Upper Nile and the sustained multi-year flooding.
In a statement sent to Eye Radio newsroom, the U.S diplomat also called on the government of South Sudan to improve the security conditions in Upper Nile state.
The restive state has experienced a series of violence, particularly in Malakal, Panykang, and Fashoda Counties allegedly perpetrated by militias believed to be loyal to General Simon Gatwech.
A family is appealing for financial support to transport the body of a peace soldier who succumbed to an illness at a training center in Juba.
Edward Hipaingba Rakifi died while battling a hernia at the Rajaf Training center Monday morning.
He was one of the unified forces that graduated in Juba recently.
The late’s body was supposed to be taken to Yambio today but is stuck at the training center today.
This is because the family cannot afford to hire a car ticket or even to transport the body using a boda-boda.
“Here the cost to take the body to Yambio by car is very expensive it’s more than 400.000 to 600,000 ssp, Tadeo Sasa a member of the Azande Community in Juba told Eye Radio.
“We get somebody who is able to take the body with boda-boda at a low cost, but it is still expensive.”
The number of suspected Ebola infections continues to rise in Uganda.
The health ministry says there have been 34 suspected cases. It believes that 21 deaths were probably caused by the Ebola virus.
Health teams are continuing to trace any people that may have come into contact with it.
The outbreak began in the central district of Mubende but has now spread to two neighboring districts.
There are as yet no confirmed cases in the capital Kampala.
This is the fourth Ebola outbreak Uganda has faced.
Neighboring countries have said that they are on high alert.
