by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 8, 2021 | News
Warfare, droughts, famine, widespread hunger, floods, locust swarms and a global pandemic – all of these have been endured by the South Sudanese over the past decade. Amid the turmoil, faith leaders like Edward Dima, pastor of First Baptist Church in Kajo-Keji and...
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 | 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 | 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...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 15, 2017 | News
More than 2 million children in South Sudan have fled their homes. The number of child refugees is now more than a million and another million-plus are internally displaced as a result of the nation’s ongoing civil war. Additionally, “nearly three quarters...