South Sudan

Crisis in South Sudan

While the signing of a peace agreement in September 2018 formally put an end to the conflict in South Sudan, the humanitarian situation remains dire.

The multidimensional crisis is characterized by continued violence, severe food and nutrition insecurity, economic upheaval and disease outbreaks.

Over 4.5 million people have been uprooted, including 2 million people who are internally displaced and 2.5 million people who have taken refuge in neighbouring countries.

UNICEF appeal

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Situation reports

 
Briefing notes

In South Sudan, teenage girls struggle to break chains of conflict

 
 
When three armed men forced Mary* and her sister off a narrow road in South Sudan, the terrified 12-year-old started sobbing. But she had to dry her tears when the rebels threatened to kill her if she did not stop crying.

 
Now 16 and free, Mary remembers the day-long march that brought her to the rebels’ camp where she would spend the next three years, living in fear of brutal beatings and enemy attacks that sent bullets flying through the air.

Recent stories

Achieving humanitarian goals together

 
Malnutrition remains a threat to the survival of children in South Sudan

 
The three-month challenge

 
An Ebola survivor’s mission to prevent an outbreak

 

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Launch of school text books for new South Sudanese National Curriculum

 
 

***MEDIA ADVISORY ***
 

6 March 2019 – Tomorrow is a significant day for the education sector of this country as it will adopt and launch South Sudan’s first national textbooks, covering all grades of school education.
 

The new textbooks have been developed by Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MOGEI) and are based on the new curriculum, the first to be adopted since independence.
 

Press releases

Increasing number of people face severe food shortages in South Sudan

 
More than 3,000 children released from armed groups in South Sudan since conflict began, but thousands more continue to be used

 
15,000 children without parents or missing, five years after outbreak of fighting in South Sudan

 

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