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South Sudan: ICRC medical teams perform over 1,000 surgeries on weapon-wounded patients as armed conflict and violence escalate
International Committee of the Red Cross
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May 26, 2025
The influx of patients is the direct consequence of the escalation of armed conflict and violence the country has experienced in the past months and the scope of the resulting humanitarian crisis. Thousands of people have fled their homes, often...
Russia Warns Military Force Will Not Resolve South Sudan’s Violence
MENAFN
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May 28, 2025
(MENAFN) Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova issued a stark warning Tuesday that escalating violence in South Sudan cannot be resolved through military means. The clashes between government troops and opposition factions have...
Russia Says Force will not Solve South Sudan War
MENAFN
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May 28, 2025
(MENAFN) The worsening unrest in South Sudan cannot be resolved through armed intervention, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has cautioned. Hostilities between the government and various opposition groups have intensified,...
Forgotten in a Protracted Crisis: South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region Face New Hardships as Aid Withers
Oxfam
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May 21, 2025
Clinics that once offered at least primary care and essential drugs are now often empty shelves, as supply pipelines and NGO health projects are disrupted. Education, too, is imperiled – Thijok, added “schools in the camps lack books and even...
WaterStep Partners with John Dau Foundation & Helps Contain Cholera Outbreak in Duk County, South Sudan in Just 6 Weeks
EIN Presswire
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May 8, 2025
WaterStep has restored dignity, brought hope & life-saving access to safe water to 30,000+ people in South Sudan. LOUISVILLE, KY, UNITED STATES, May 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a region long defined by scarcity, conflict, and displacement,...
ICRC in South Sudan
International Committee of the Red Cross
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April 11, 2025
As such, the ICRC strives to ensure the humane and dignified treatment of people deprived of liberty in places of detention, facilitate the restoration of family contact, and search for missing persons. The organization also works to prevent...
South Sudan: Using sports and arts to combat sexual and gender-based violence
International Committee of the Red Cross
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March 4, 2025
In 2024, the ICRC, in partnership with the South Sudanese Red Cross Society (SSRC), organized awareness-raising sessions on sexual and gender-based violence to more than 5,000 community members in nine locations across the country, including...
DR Congo Rolls Out Urgent Polio Vaccination
MENAFN
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June 29, 2025
(MENAFN) Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began the second phase of a large-scale polio immunization effort on Thursday, aiming to reach more than 10 million children across the country. The initiative comes in response to...
Study unveils water danger in S-African schools
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN) A recent investigation by a South African environmental group has revealed that 43% of schools participating in a national water testing project found dangerous bacteria in their water samples. The results were published on Wednesday. The...
South Sudan: ICRC's mobile surgical team in Renk treats more than 230 weapon-wounded patients in just one month
International Committee of the Red Cross
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January 17, 2025
Since early December 2024, more than 120,000 people have fled the ongoing violence in Blue Nile, White Nile, and Sennar states in Sudan, to South Sudan. Dozens of them, wounded by the violence, required urgent medical care by ICRC doctors. “Our...
Women’s and mothers’ health and children’s well-being at the forefront of Slovenia's international efforts
Government of Slovenia
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April 7, 2025
SLOVENIA, April 7 - From the early days of its independence, when it provided humanitarian and psychosocial support to women and children affected by the war in the Balkans, Slovenia has been active in this area and later focused on these topics...
South Sudan: People in Pibor County resort to eating wild vegetables as hunger crisis deepens
Oxfam
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July 30, 2024
Together, these factors forced South Sudan's currency to plummet and triggered the highest real food inflation since independence (164%) according to the World Bank, making it harder for people to access food. The prices of staple foods such as...
South Sudan: African Development Bank Group approves $46 million grant funding for agricultural productivity, food security and resilience
African Development Bank
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July 12, 2024
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $46.2 million grant to support the first phase of the Climate Resilient Agri-Food System Transformation Programme in South Sudan. This initiative aims to boost...
Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 members a death sentence for millions of people, says Oxfam
Oxfam
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June 13, 2025
Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and...
Deputy President Paul Mashatile: Public Lecture at St. Petersburg State University
South African Government
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June 19, 2025
Programme Director; The Honourable Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Professor Sergey Andryushin; Esteemed Members of the University’s Academic Senate; The Executive Leadership and Faculty of St. Petersburg State University; Representatives...
DR. ERIKA WICHRO SELECTED FOR IAOTP’S PRESIDENTIAL AWARD IN PUBLIC HEALTH
EIN Presswire
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August 8, 2024
Dr. Erika Wichro honored member of the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) and will be honored at their annual awards gala in Nashville NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, August 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Dr. Erika Wichro, MPH...
China: Health interventions in crisis situations
International Committee of the Red Cross
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August 6, 2024
Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today at the Joint Logistic Forum – Medical Service Summit. Thank the organizers…The ICRC has a long and fruitful relationship with the PLA including on medical matters, with...
OXFAM REACTION TO THE UN STATE OF FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION REPORT 2024
Oxfam
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July 24, 2024
In reaction to the UN's 2024 edition of “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” (SOFI) report, which showed that one out of 11 people in the world, and one out of every five in Africa, may have faced hunger in 2023, Eric Munoz,...
The ripple effects of US foreign aid cuts to food and water access across North Africa
Middle East Institute
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June 13, 2025
This article is part of an MEI research initiative examining the complex interplay between food security, governance, political stability, and economic development in North Africa and the Sahel. The project brings together a diverse range of...
Musa’s Journey of Resilience and Recovery
International Committee of the Red Cross
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June 10, 2025
As a casual home interior decorator in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, Musa was following his usual daily routine in December 2023 near a bustling market in the suburbs of Hajj when a sudden explosion shattered his life. Trying to suppress his...