Climate Action South Sudan Project #3346

Stop Cookstoves from Killing in South Sudan

by Hope Ofiriha

Project Report | Oct 27, 2016
Without Cook-stove - Family cannot eat Food

By William Logai Ochieng | Executive Director

Cookstove gives a promising start to refugees

We are glad that you had been supporting this project for several years.

At the third quarter of this reporting:

You gave loan capital to two refugee families living in Banda who fled the current war from South Sudan. These families are in a business operation of making and selling soil Cookstoves to provide basic needs for their families and pay fees to keep children at school.

Due to insecurity in South Sudan HO is unable to run this initiative in Magwi County until further notice. In the next three months, we will be posting a new field update to report on the progress and tell you how your gift is impacting the needy in a positive way.

It was the bodyguards for rebel leader and presidential guards who fought each other in earlier July sparking days of violence which killed many hundreds of soldiers and civilians. The two forces had battled each other, almost five years to the day South Sudan declared independence from Sudan. Following the orders from the leadership on both sides, the clashes ceased temporarily in late in July. The rebels moved their based outside Juba in an attempt to save peace which both parties signed.

In August fighting was in the outskirt of Juba in which the oppositions accused the government of attacking their positions. The rebels regrouped and fled to Congo with Riek Machar, their leader. Over the last few months, the citizens have expressed dissent against the government, as a result of this, the rebellion is growing rapidly in Equatoria Region, which kept itself neutral for much of two years’ civil conflict in Upper Nile State. Other tribes are targeting ethnic Dinka. The humanitarian needs are going to be very great after this, Director General for RRC, told reporters. They are going to need food, shelter, water, he said, adding that the need for shelter and clean water was pressing for those living in a Displaced facility within Juba town.

War-torn South Sudan is suffering a rise in hate speech and incitement to violence against certain ethnic groups which could result in mass atrocities if the government does not act, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday.

Animosity between South Sudan’s Dinka ethnic group and the people of its southwestern Equatoria region surged earlier this month when buses on roads south of the capital Juba were attacked as they passed through Equatoria region.

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