This Week in South Sudan – Week 44

Monday 26 October

Wednesday 28 October

  • South Sudan Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin rejected the finding of AU’s Commission of Inquiry report and remains insistent that an alleged coup bid started the conflict.
  • About 200 shops in Wau town in Western Bahr al Ghazal have been closed due to declining purchase power.
  • The opposition group from Western Equatoria state, Revolutionary Movement For National Salvation (REMNASA) and the SPLM (IO) signed an agreement to merge in Addis Ababa.
  • BBC: ‘South Sudan’s shattered dream’
  • The Guardian: ‘South Sudan: ‘a level of human suffering I have never seen anywhere else’’

Thursday 29 October

  • Final Report of the African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan.
    • The New York Times: ‘Rape and Cannibalism Cited Among South Sudan’s Horrors’
    • The Guardian: ‘South Sudan civil war inquiry details torture and forced cannibalism’
    • Al Jazeera: ‘Report: Mass graves, rape and cannibalism in South Sudan’
    • BBC: ‘Rape and cannibalism in South Sudan, African Union says’
    • Radio Tamazuj: ‘Summary of the AU panel of inquiry’s recommendations for South Sudan’
  • 18 UN peacekeepers were freed after being detained by rebels affiliated with the SPLA (IO) north of Malakal, Upper Nile state. UNMISS later carried out a successful extraction operation securing the release of the 13 UN contractors who were still held hostage.

Friday 30 October

Saturday 31 October

Sunday 1 November

  • Radio Tamazuj: Explaining the South Sudan peace agreement:
    • Part 17: ‘Will Juba be demilitarized?’
    • Part 18: ‘Who will decide on security reform?
    • Part 19: ‘Will people be allowed to go home?’
    • Part 20: ‘What is the Special Reconstruction Fund?’

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