[Reporter] The new President of Kenya, William Ruto (PhD), revealed on the eve of this year’s Christmas, December 24, 2022, how his government is deeply concerned about the recent escalation of hostilities in South Sudan, a nation with which Kenya shares a narrow border compared to other neighbors.

[RFI] The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said that armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their homes.

[VOA] Juba, South Sudan — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, or UNOCHA, says an estimated 30,000 people from South Sudan’s Greater Pibor Administrative Area have fled their homes in the face of the recent inter-ethnic violence.

[UN News] The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with international partners, have called for the immediate end to mounting violence in the Greater Pibor area by armed youth from Jonglei state. News reports say at least 57 have died since early on Sunday, with more than a dozen injured.

[SNA] Juba — President of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit on Tuesday received the Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Gem Mohamd Hamdan Daglo in the presence of the Presidential Advisor, Tut Gatluak.

[SSNA] Washington, DC/Juba — The government of South Sudan has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to reverse an arms embargo that was imposed by the UN Security Council in July 2018, an official at the South Sudan embassy in Washington, DC, with full knowledge of the matter and who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media told the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) on Sunday.

[UN News] UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths released from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) on Thursday, $14 million for direct assistance to 262,521 South Sudanese affected by increased violence and severe flooding.

[Agenzia Fides] Juba — A total of 166 dead, 237 injured, 20,000 to 50,000 internally displaced persons, 3,000 refugees: these figures represent the tragedy experienced by the population of the States of Upper Nile and Jonglei in South Sudan since fighting between rival militias resumed in August.

[MSF] A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile river, on it sits a family of eight people – the youngest just a baby.

[State Department] The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Norway, and the United Kingdom (the Troika) and the European Union.