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20,000 graduate in first ever unified national army  Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | President Yoweri Museveni’s attendance of the first graduation of the Unified Forces of South Sudan cast him in the spotlight again as a mainstay in the security matrix of the East African and Great Lakes region. …

  Juba, South Sudan | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was one of several heads of state who early this week witnessed the graduation of the 1st batch of the unified forces of the Republic of South Sudan. This follows the Entebbe Tripartite agreement of November 2019 in which …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | South Sudan’s peace monitors on Thursday unanimously voted to extend the Transitional Government by two years. Charles Tai Gituai, the interim chairperson of the Revitalized Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC), said two-thirds of the voting members in the commission approved the extension according to …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | The first batch of South Sudan’s unified forces officially graduated on Tuesday. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir said during the ceremony that the implementation of the security arrangement has been one of the most challenging tasks since the signing of the peace pact in 2018. …

President Museveni emphasizes Peace as a prerequisite for growth in the four sectors of Commercial agriculture, Industry, Services, and ICT Juba, South Sudan | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni was on hand today to witness the graduation of the 1st batch of the necessary unified forces of the Republic …

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-UNHCR is requesting for more land in Lamwo district to host refugees from South Sudan. In 2017, locals in Palabek Gem and Ogili sub counties offered a 50 square-mile chunk of land to host refugees fleeing war in South …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, (UNMISS) on Wednesday welcomed South Sudan’s move to extend the transitional government by two years. The UNMISS said in a statement that the move would enable the implementation of critical outstanding tasks in the Revitalized Peace Agreement. The …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | The United Nations on Wednesday condemned clashes between rebel forces and the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) in South Sudan’s northern oil-rich Unity State. Nicholas Haysom, the special representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, called on the forces of Stephen Buay Rolnyang, the …

Kampala, Uganda | Ronald Musoke | Pascaline Aburi Albino, a South Sudanese university student in Juba, South Sudan, is convinced the protracted armed conflict in her country has left a negative impact on the education of South Sudanese children. Aburi, 24, says many of her peers and children younger than her …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of trucks have piled up at Elegu border point in Elegu town council, Amuru district following violence that erupted across the South Sudan border town of Nimule on Monday. Traffic came to a standstill for the better part of Monday after angry locals staged …