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South Sudanese youth living in Melbourne, Australia have condemned the UN Mission in South Sudan’s (UNMISS) mistake of transporting arms by road instead of airlifting them. 18 March 2014 South Sudanese youth protesting the UNMISS Partiality in Melbourne, Australia. [Courtesy photo]  2014 (Gurtong)- “It is clear that UNMISS is supporting the rebellion in the country and South Sudanese youth here in Melbourne condemn this behavior,” a press statement issued by the youth in Melbourne partly reads. The youth call for Ms Hilde Johnson, the head of UNMISS in Juba to resign immediately and review of UNMISS’ operation mandate. “We are sick of war and are against anyone supporting the war by arming the rebellion in our country. Hilde Johnson is doing just that arming the rebellions in the country and she must go,” they said. Recently, the government troops (security personnel) intercepted weapons in a UNMISS convoy of 12 trucks marked as carryi

NEWSLINE: Malakal IDPs Desperately Need Relief Aid : The internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Malakal town desparately need relief assistnace.   March 2014 ID... text

The internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Malakal town desparately need relief assistnace.   March 2014 IDPs at a UNMISS clinic in Malakal. [File]  [Gurtong] - They have expressed disappountnent in the government for its failure to rescue them from the rebels' "atrocities" daily. The IDPs say people are being killed daily when found from their hideouts. IDPs in the United Nations' compound said their colleagues in churches and hiding in their houses risk being killed as the rebels still control Malakal town. Malakal fell into the hands of the Anti-government forces led by the country's ex-vice president Dr. Riek Machar, now turned rebel leader since mid-February after they overan the government forces there. "People are suffering. They have no food and water to drink. The town is looted," an IDP lamented. "So, there is no hope of life for those who are now in Churches and in their hideouts in town.&q

NEWSLINE: South Sudan: LET US BE AMBASSADOR​S OF PEACE : By Francis Chol South Sudanese let us choose peace.  Peace is a commodity that cannot be bought from any nearby shop.  It does ... text

By Francis Chol South Sudanese let us choose peace.  Peace is a commodity that cannot be bought from any nearby shop.  It does not require you to pay any single south Sudanese pound, but rather a decision that you make yourself. As our hearts pour in solidarity to remember thousands of innocent citizens who have lost their lives in this crisis, we need to take this responsibility of preaching and maintaining peace in our hearts and build up our society, our country to a better South Sudan that we all love to live in. South Sudanese we have a chance and let's take this chance to bring peace, reconciliation and total forgiveness among ourselves. We are one people. The only way we can maintain peace is to build a bridge of total trust and domination of peace in our hearts by preaching peace to bridge the gaps we are all witnessing.  South Sudanese, the conflict is not about us it was caused not by ancient ethnic antagonism but by a fanatical elite engage

United Nations officials have signed an agreement with the government of South Sudan and the Chinese embassy to build a new camp in Juba to house thousands of South Sudanese who were forced from their homes by nearly three months of fighting. 07 March 2014 Displaced men rest in an improvised shelter at an UNMISS base in Juba, where nearly 30,000 people who were forced from their homes when violence erupted in South Sudan have sought shelter. [Reuters] JUBA — The new camp will be used to house some of the thousands of displaced people who sought shelter at U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) bases after fighting erupted in Juba in December and quickly spread around the country. The South Sudanese government provided land for the 600,000 square metre site, adjacent to the UN House base in the Jebel.area of Juba, and Chinese companies led by the China National Petroleum Corporation will provide machinery and $1.6 million to fund the project, which is expected to ac

Fighting that left dozens of soldiers dead at the SPLA Giyada base in Juba yesterday also resulted in the presumably accidental killing of three boys, according to an eyewitness. 07 March 2014 Smoke billows out of the SPLA Giyada base after a firefight, JUBA ( March 2014) -  The gunfight at Giyada started with a dispute over pay involving senior officers. At issue was whether soldiers accused of having defected or gone absent without leave should be paid in Juba or not. A businessman who lives in Juba recounted that he walked past the Giyada base soon after the initial gunfight on Wednesday morning, during a lull in the clashes. He says that around 10:00 a.m. yesterday he was cutting across Meidan Simba from the direction of Juba University heading toward Jabarona neighborhood in order to visit a sick friend. Lying in the field were the bodies of three children, he said, recognizing them as boys who normally washing cars in Meidan Simba. Nearby also was the b