'They showed little mercy': Cork priest describes how friend was shot dead in South Sudan
Father Victor-Luke Odhiambo was shot dead by unknown assailants last Thursday.
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Father Victor-Luke Odhiambo was shot dead by unknown assailants last Thursday.
The medical charity said its treating critically ill children for diseases that can be vaccinated against.
More people live here than in the whole of Co Galway.
A UN report said some of the cases are “reminiscent of Bosnia”.
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
The children died of “severe sepsis/toxicity”, the UN said.
There is a looming risk of famine in a number of countries.
Famine was declared in the new African country on Monday, which has been embroiled in civil conflict for years.
Three children died in the incident in 2015.
Those who fled the latest violence described a campaign of wanton destruction.
The Loreto order said the two nuns are doing well “but it’s an anxious time”.
The UN report also found that civilians suspected of supporting the opposition, including children, had being burnt alive and hanged from trees.
The African Union has accused South Sudanese forces of extreme violence since the country’s civil war began nearly two years ago.
The explosion happened in the South Sudanese city of Maridi.
The story of James Riak, an aid worker with GOAL in South Sudan, who was kidnapped from his family as a ten-year-old and trained as a child soldier.
A UN agency said warring forces have carried out horrific crimes against children including tying them together before slitting their throats.
The country has been fighting since 2013.
Unidentified armed soldiers surrounded the town and went house to house taking away any boys thought to be over 12.
UNICEF says that armed soldiers searched the area house by house.
The money is going to South Sudan and Syria.
This will bring the funding provided by Ireland to the South Sudanese crisis this year to over €8.5 million.
Irish aid agencies are warning that the conflict could cause a famine by early next year.
Aid work is very full on – you work, live and socialise with your colleagues. But, cheesy as it sounds, I do really believe in what we’re doing here.
Seán Sherlock condemned the killing of aid personnel as they provided humanitarian relief to those impacted by the ongoing violence.
Who doesn’t love a happy ending?
If the aid effort does not increase in South Sudan – 50,000 children could die from malnutrition.
TDs will debate the controversial issue in the Dáil today.
A second ceasefire in the country has collapsed and both rebels and government forces are blocking the paths of UN peacekeepers.
The crisis in South Sudan is now at a tipping point – we cannot afford to wait. The history books will pass their judgement on how we now react.
President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar met yesterday, prayed together, and agreed that “all hostile activities will stop”.
South Sudan is already predicting that 50,000 children under five could die of hunger before the year is out.
There are clear signs of impending famine in South Sudan – immediate, focused humanitarian efforts are needed to prevent imminent disease and starvation.
More than 200 civilians were killed and 400 wounded in a recent attack.
48 bodies were recovered from inside the base, which is sheltering thousands of displaced civilians. The bodies of ten attackers were found outside.
Médecins Sans Frontières made the accusations today.
In marking the 20th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, we should also look to conflicts in Central African Republic and South Sudan, writes Joe Costello TD.
The space in which human rights defenders can operate safely is steadily shrinking, with devastating consequences, writes Mary Lawlor.
Thousands have been killed and many more forced from their homes by the recent fighting in South Sudan. As the situation grows ever more serious, David Adams describes what he has witnessed.
The United Nations has said it is investigating widespread reports of atrocities and war crimes, including massacres, gang rapes and summary executions.
There are reports of between 200 and 300 people on the overloaded ferry.