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South Sudan: inside a rapid relief mission
Our cargo plane had arrived, and it was time for action. We had faced some logistical nightmares, not uncommon in South Sudan at the moment, but at last, in the […]
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20,000 call Tomping’s tent-shelters home
While walking through the maze of plastic-sheeted tent shelters that make up the Tomping PoC (Protection of Civilians) site for internally displaced people in Juba, South Sudan, it does not […]
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South Sudan: helping a child find his family
“How he arrived in Juba is still a mystery and Kamis really is the key to us helping him find his way back to his mother. He was referred to […]
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South Sudan: ensuring safe pregnancy and birth for internally displaced mothers
He is only four hours old when we meet – born on a thin, foam single mattress that lies on a dirt floor, inside a small plastic sheet shelter in […]
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Sexual violence, the weapon of war that has ceased to die
This week, we are seeing global leaders come together with the aim of ending one of the biggest atrocities against humanity, sexual violence in conflict. Sexual violence is used in […]
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Photo of the Week: South Sudan malnutrition crisis
In this photo of the week, an older boy tenderly feeds a younger child in a UNICEF-supported civilian protection site in South Sudan, a country where 4 million people are […]
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South Sudan: A country falling into famine
As rain bombarded the tens of thousands of people who continue to seek safety in a UN camp in Malakal, most hurried to their plastic sheeting homes. The people of […]
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South Sudan: nutrition crisis ahead
On 25 July 2014, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, together with Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin, visited South Sudan to draw attention to the looming nutrition […]
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Photo of the Week: Threatened at every turn
Facing insecurity, displacement, malnutrition, floods – children in South Sudan are threatened at every turn. A girl holds her baby sister while waiting to collect food rations, in the town […]
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South Sudan – portrait of a humanitarian hero
Nyakuoch Keat’s nine-month-old son Bhan had been running a fever for days and was listless and unresponsive to his mother’s attempts to cheer him up. His condition worsened, to the […]
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South Sudan: 50,000 children could die of malnutrition
“We rebelled, we struggled, we fought, we conquered”. These are the words imprinted on the bright green t-shirt I bought in July 2011 from a budding entrepreneur in Juba who […]
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Helping children in crisis – a record month for UNICEF
At the end of this week we will mark a major milestone – over 1,000 metric tonnes (MT) of life-saving supplies will have been sent to Central African Republic, Iraq, […]
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South Sudan: flooding compounds nightmare
After the heavy rains the night before, she stood carrying a baby wrapped in a pink shawl in her arms. She stood silently, surrounded by the bustle of her neighbours […]
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Photo of the Week: surviving on wild grass
In this week’s photograph by Mike Pflanz taken in South Sudan in August 2014, Nyabel Wal holds a bowl filled with small-leaved succulent plants known in the local Nuer language […]
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Photo of the Week: fleeing South Sudan’s conflict
Child refugees from South Sudan attend a makeshift school in Kule camp, Ethiopia, in this week’s Photo of the Week by photographer Jire Ose taken in August 2014. Since mid-December […]
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South Sudan: planting the seeds of peace
When the conflict broke out on 15 December last year in South Sudan, shattering two-and-a-half hopeful years of independence for the world’s newest nation, tens of thousands of people fled […]
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Photo of the Week: South Sudan – one year of conflict
15 December 2014 marks a tragic anniversary for South Sudan: one year since the eruption of violence that has left nearly 750,000 children internally displaced and forced more than 320,000 […]
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A mother’s nightmare in South Sudan
It was a cold and dark April evening in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bor, Jonglei State, when Alice*, a 25-year old mother of three, displaced by the […]
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South Sudan: children giving up their guns to go to school
The release of an estimated 2000-3000 children from an armed faction in South Sudan began today in Greater Pibor, in the eastern part of the country. Saudamini Siegrist, Senior Adviser […]
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Children have the right to be children, not soldiers
This month marks ten years since my first negotiation to release ‘child soldiers’ from armed forces. I still remember the look of fear mixed with excitement of Jean-Baptiste* as he […]
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