South Sudan

2013 - 2020

Websites

South Sudan Case Study: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a designated page the gives an overview of the conflict in the South Sudan.

South Sudan

Stop Genocide Now gives a timeline, background and overview of the conflict in the South Sudan.

Civil War in South Sudan | Global Conflict TrackerLearn about the world's top hotspots with this interactive Global Conflict Tracker from the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations.

South Sudan: ‘Outraged’ UN experts say ongoing widespread human rights violations may amount to war crimesUnited Nations investigators on Wednesday denounced a raft of gross human rights violations being perpetrated in South Sudan, where over the past year, incidents of rape have surged and abductions, sexual slavery and brutal killings “have become commonplace.” “There is a confirmed pattern of how combatants attack villages, plunder homes, take women as sexual slaves and then set homes alight – often with people in them,” Yasmin Sooka, Chair of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said in Nairobi at the launch of the launch of the three-member expert-body’s third report.

South Sudan - The Enough Project

This website gives an overview of the conflict in South Sudan and gives updates on what is happening in the area.

Videos

"South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, but has been gripped with civil war since 2013. Here’s why."

"South Sudan was founded in 2011, and now it’s on the edge of collapse: Forces allied to the president and vice president have been fighting along tribal lines. Murderous raids on civilian communities are a favored tactic, and UN peacekeepers have been criticized for not doing more to stop them. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting."

South Sudan's civil war spirals into genocide, leaving ghost towns in its wakeSouth Sudan was founded in 2011, and now it’s on the edge of collapse: Forces allied to the president and vice president have been fighting along tribal lines. Murderous raids on civilian communities are a favored tactic, and UN peacekeepers have been criticized for not doing more to stop them. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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