(UNAMID) – On 3 April 2018, senior Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) officers attended a UNAMID-supported training on protection of children in armed conflict and promoting local ownership of child protection. The one-day workshop, held in Nyala, South Darfur, was organized by the Mission’s Child Protection Unit (CPU) and is part of ongoing efforts to sensitize parties […]
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(UNICEF) – He was a quiet, shy boy of 14, helping his parents at the farm, sharing household work and finishing his lessons, in Bentiu county in then undivided Sudan. One day, on an otherwise a regular afternoon, his parents and uncle were dragged out his house and shot dead by plain clothes men with masked […]
(HRW) – Bonifacio told Human Rights Watch that he was 16 years old when South Sudanese soldiers snatched him away from his family in 2016 to fight a war grownups begun when he was only 13. During his training, he was beaten and whipped and shot at. Later, soldiers forced him to go and kidnap other […]
(Theirworld) – Some of South Sudan’s 6000 schools opened for a new academic year last month – but the government does not know how many. Teachers have not been paid. Many of them, and their pupils, are on the run after four years of fighting. In the capital, classrooms are filled with hungry displaced families. The […]
(UNHCR) – In the shade of a teak tree, teenager Kenyi John sits on a mat with his four siblings and raises his arm. He throws a dice on to a colourful board and the children laugh and cheer. He has scored a six and their board game can start. Kenyi, 17, and his younger brothers […]
(WHO) – Regina Archangelo, walked in to the stabilization center inside Wau Teaching Hospital carrying her weak six months old twin boys Ochan and Opio. One could easily notice that not only the twins, the mother too was frail and underweight. The twins are among the estimated over 261 000 children in South Sudan suffering from […]
(CMMB) -“They told me to kill my mother.” This is the realty of life as a child soldier in South Sudan. It is a life of fear, brutality, and indifference to human dignity. On Wednesday, February 7th, more than 300 child soldiers were released by armed groups in Yambio, South Sudan. Since the start of […]
(Al Jazeera) – John was taken when he was 15 years old. He is one of 700 children who were forcibly recruited by South Sudan’s National Liberation Movement. “They arrested me when we were going to the garden,” he told Al Jazeera. “Life in the bush was hard and if you leave, they will look for you […]
(WHO) – South Sudan declared the end of its longest and largest cholera outbreak on Wednesday (February 07), with no new cases of cholera reported in over seven weeks. The fight against cholera in South Sudan has involved a range of partners working together to enhance surveillance, deploy rapid response teams to investigate and respond to […]
(UNMISS) – More than 300 child soldiers have today been officially released by armed groups in Yambio to begin reintegrating into their communities and learning new skills to support themselves, according to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. “Children should not be carrying guns and killing each other. They should be playing, learning, having fun […]
