by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | News
Nearly 1,000 days – 951 to be exact. That’s how long it has been since Edward Dima last saw his hometown of Kajo-Keji, South Sudan. At 10 a.m. local time on Jan. 31, 2017, Dima left for Uganda, where he and his family have been living as refugees from the ongoing...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | News
The death toll resulting from the conflict in South Sudan is nearly 400,000, according to a report released on Sept. 26 by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Released nine days after the latest peace agreement was signed, the analysis reviewed...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 17, 2018 | News
A Sept. 12 peace agreement offers hope, tempered by realism, for a formal and final end to the multi-year conflict in South Sudan. The African nation has experienced intermittent conflicts since gaining independence in 2011, with the current war erupting in 2013 due...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2018 | News
Ongoing violence in South Sudan is projected to result in “Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the mid-1990s,” the United Nations announced on Feb. 1. “The human cost of the South Sudan conflict has reached epic proportions,” said...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 12, 2018 | News
Conflict has placed eight nations at either “high risk” of or “on watch” for food insecurity as 2018 begins, according to a United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) quarterly report for January to March 2018. The nations...