SOUTH SUDAN: Salesian missionaries provide support for refugees in Palabek Refugee Settlement

“Through my story”: Kenya-based Missionary-Peacebuilder Seeks to Preserve Church’s Memory in Sudan, South Sudan

John Ashworth, a veteran missionary and peacebuilder who has worked with the Church in Sudan and South Sudan for more than four decades, has published a memoir documenting his experiences and highlighting the lives of the local people and Church communities he accompanied. Titled “Journeying Towards Nonviolence: My Life in Sudan,” the 389-page memoir was published on Monday, August 10, by London-based Redhaven Books. In a Tuesday, August 11 note…

Kosti Manibe Ngai: A Life in South Sudan’s Liberation Struggle and State-Building

Former South Sudan Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Kosti Manibe Ngai, has died at 78, in Nairobi, Kenya, according to his family. Family member Yekonia Kosti told Eye Radio from Nairobi that a medical report on the cause of death was not yet available, as doctors were still preparing it. Yekonia said Manibe had […]

South Sudanese national arrested in Uganda for attempting to smuggle 700 bullets - Radio Tamazuj

The police in Uganda’s Lamwo District at the border with South Sudan on Sunday arrested a male South Sudanese national for trying to smuggle 700 rounds of live AKM ammunition concealed in a box of soap to South Sudan. According to the Uganda Police, three suspects were arrested during the intelligence-led operation, which commenced on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. in Madiopei Town Council. Police recovered one metallic ammunition box marked “7.62 × 39 mm …

SOUTH SUDAN: Salesian missionaries provide support for refugees in Palabek Refugee Settlement

Salesian missionaries continue to support displaced populations inside South Sudan* as well as refugees who have fled to neighboring Uganda at the Palabek Refugee Settlement, which is home to nearly 100,000 people, most from South Sudan.