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Violence prevention and reduction – Creating trust among youth and adolescent labelled as gangs

As South Sudan continues to emerge from decades of war and conflict -- inter-group and gang violence is a major concern, particularly within Juba and other urban Centers across the country. Increasing gang violence including physical attacks resulting in injury and death, rape, and sexual violence, looting and oth...

23 September 2023

UNICEF strongly condemns deadly attack on aid convoy in Central Equatoria State, South Sudan

Two trucks were attacked Saturday morning while returning to Juba after delivering crucial aid supplies for children and their families to Yei in Central Equatoria State. Two contracted drivers were shot and killed and another injured. Both empty trucks were burnt and destroyed. UNICEF is appalled by the attack an...

19 January 2023

Vocational training restores hope for former child soldiers in Western Equatoria

Yambio, South Sudan - While South Sudan's civil war ended in 2018, conflict and violence affecting and involving children remains common. For former child soldiers who still suffer from the trauma of war, a training programme allows them to recoup some of their lost childhood dreams. Emmanuel, Susan and Tito* were...

13 January 2023

UNICEF statement on abducted women and children in Pibor

Juba, South Sudan - UNICEF condemns the recent abductions of women and children, rape, sexual violence, physical beatings and gross deprivations inflicted upon upwards of 65 people (16 women and 49 children) in the Pibor Administrative Area in South Sudan. There can be no justification, not in past atrocities, not in any culture, nor in any law,…

12 December 2022

Thousands of children forced to flee escalating violence in South Sudan

Fashoda County, Upper Nile, 12 December 2022 -- Escalating violence in Upper Nile State, is forcing thousands of people – mostly women and children – to flee for their lives as clashes between armed groups surge in Fashoda County in the North of South Sudan. UNICEF joins the humanitarian community in strongly condemning the violence, in which…

26 September 2022

A search for mothers

The smiles on the faces of seven-year-old Achan Kuon and her twin brother Bak at a child-friendly space in Malakal mask the agony and trauma they have been through. They have been in the internally displaced people’s camp for weeks now without their mother and father, from whom they have been separated for almost ...

22 February 2022

UNICEF condemns killing of children in cattle raid in Jonglei

Juba, South Sudan, 22 February 2022 – "UNICEF is deeply concerned about news that three children were reportedly killed during an attempted cattle raid on Ghoh cattle camp, in Pagil Payam on 18 of February which left a total of 12 dead and 10 wounded. UNICEF condemns such indiscriminate attacks against childr...

28 January 2022

Mother risks everything to save the life of her malnourished son

“If you are a mother, your bare hands must be the thermometer that detects changes in the body temperature of your child”, says Achol Aboor, the mother of one-year-old Mading Makur, “because you understand what a child cannot say.” One morning, while caring for her son she found that he was unnaturally hot, and sh...

25 January 2022

UNICEF statement on reports of child casualties during fighting in Bor County

Juba, South Sudan, 24 January 2022 – "UNICEF is shocked and deeply saddened by the news that three children reportedly died whilst fleeing fighting that took place in Baidit Payam, North East of Bor on 23rd January. Alarmingly, three women were also reportedly killed as a result of gunshot wounds." "UNICEF deplores such acts and urges that…

20 October 2021

Going the last mile to reach the most vulnerable affected by conflict

“There are so many children, women, and elderly persons, who had walked for days in the bush to escape the fighting in Tambura county,” says Joseph Andrea Adiomo, Emergency Specialist with UNICEF. Ongoing fighting in Tambura (Western Equatoria) has displaced over 90,000 people, who have witnessed horrific violence...

11 February 2021

Children has no place in armed conflicts and the abuse must end now”

JUBA, South Sudan 12 February 2021 – The grotesque use of children in armed conflict is a battery of child right violations and has no place in 2021, said UNICEF today. Children are forced to execute and witness atrocities. Children are killed, injured, maimed, abused mentally and sexually. It is life-threatening ...

26 February 2020

15 child soldiers released in South Sudan

JUBA, 26 FEBRUARY 2020 – Today, 15 children associated with armed forces and armed groups were released in South Sudan, UNICEF said. The boys ranging from 16 to 18 years of age were taken as prisoners of war during clashes in the northern parts of the country in 2019. Today marked the end of their imprisonment, th...