abducted women and children Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/abducted-women-and-children/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 abducted women and children Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/abducted-women-and-children/ 32 32 Ceasefire signed in South Sudan https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/ceasefire-signed-south-sudan/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/ceasefire-signed-south-sudan/ South Sudan’s government and rebels will tomorrow implement their ceasefire signed after peace talks in Addis Ababa. It will allow access for humanitarian aid to civilians caught in the four years of fighting and free abducted women and children. The ceasefire’s been hailed by African Union Commission head Moussa Faki and by the governments of […]

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]]> South Sudan’s government and rebels will tomorrow implement their ceasefire signed after peace talks in Addis Ababa.

It will allow access for humanitarian aid to civilians caught in the four years of fighting and free abducted women and children.

The ceasefire’s been hailed by African Union Commission head Moussa Faki and by the governments of Britain, Norway and the United States who are supporting South Sudanese peace efforts by the regional grouping IGAD.

The fighting has killed thousands and displaced millions.

Just this week hundreds of South Sudanese fled into the Democratic Republic of Congo when they were caught up in  government forces chasing rebels from their headquarters in Lasu town.

A ceasefire agreed in 2015 broke down within a year.

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