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Mary’s Meals Marks World Hunger Day 2025 by Highlighting the Impact of School Feeding
EIN Presswire
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May 27, 2025
Many ask the question if we are losing the fight against hunger. Mary’s Meals offers a simple solution—reaching over 2.6 million children every school day. BLOOMFIELD, NJ, UNITED STATES, May 27, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Observed on May 28,...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: Young biotechnologists at the forefront of the COVID-19 response
African Press Organization
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October 1, 2020
Download logo Since the novel coronavirus started to spread globally in early 2020, overwhelming the world’s best healthcare systems one after another, countries like South Sudan were bracing for what was yet to come. Exhausted by the years of...
South Sudan Will Launch Petroleum Licensing Round, Environmental Audit, at Africa Oil & Power Events in Cape Town and Juba
African Press Organization
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July 25, 2019
Download logo South Sudan’s Ministry of Petroleum is actively seeking to engage oil and gas companies focused on exploration and will announce details of its 2020 licensing round at Africa Oil & Power (AfricaOilandPower.com) conferences in Cape...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: UNMISS peacekeepers, civilian and military, team up to renovate and hand over COVID-19 isolation centre in Bentiu
African Press Organization
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August 17, 2020
Download logo As part of its ongoing support to the national-led COVID-19 response in South Sudan, various arms of UNMISS, including military peacekeepers from Ghana as well as civilian staff from Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP) and...
Coronavirus - South Sudan : Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) South Sudan - COVID-19 Preparedness & Response Mobility Update
African Press Organization
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August 14, 2020
Download logo Overview As of 12 July 2020, the cumulative total of COVID-19 cases in South Sudan stands at 2,148 with 41 confirmed deaths and 1,135 recoveries while a total of 11,862 tests have been carried out. Download Report:...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: Tuning in - Distribution of radios allow more students in Yei to follow distant learning programmes
African Press Organization
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August 16, 2020
Download logo With schools in South Sudan being closed since March, radios have never been more important for continuation of learning. Four daily radio lessons are being broadcasted across the country, covering primary 1 to senior 4. Yet, many...
South Sudan inaugurates European Union-funded bridge in Warrap State
African Press Organization
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June 4, 2019
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union have today officially handed over the completed Kwacjok Bridge to the Government of South Sudan that links Lunyaker, Kwacjok and Kangi regions for long separated by the Jur...
South Sudan: Government forces abusing civilians
African Press Organization
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June 4, 2019
Download logo Government soldiers carried out extensive abuses against civilians during counter-insurgency operations in South Sudan between December 2018 and March 2019 in Yei River state, Human Rights Watch said today. The soldiers shot at...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: Civil society, political stakeholders, community leaders in Western Bahr el Ghazal attend UNMISS-organized peace forum, find ways to work together despite COVID-19
African Press Organization
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August 3, 2020
Download logo Keeping up momentum regarding the ongoing peace process in South Sudan despite nation-wide COVID-19 restrictions was at the heart of a recent day-long event organized by UNMISS Civil Affairs in Western Bahr el Ghazal. The forum aimed...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: International Organization for Migration (IOM) and RedR UK Report closing the gap in Women’s Rights and Opportunities in Humanitarian Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Response in South Sudan
African Press Organization
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September 9, 2020
Download logo Significant barriers including entrenched gendered divisions in labour, high risks of gender-based violence and working environments not considerate of women’s needs or valuing their contributions, are hampering women’s participation...
South Sudan vaccinates health workers against Ebola
African Press Organization
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January 28, 2019
Download logo The Ministry of Health of South Sudan, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other partners, today started...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: “We’ve been through more difficult times; we shall overcome this” – midwife at COVID-19 frontline
African Press Organization
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April 22, 2020
“In a profession that has historically always placed patients’ needs first, the degree of sacrifice being demanded of us now is unprecedented,” says midwife Justine Mangwi. With the first cases of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) having been...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: Scaling up Radio Education for Children in South Sudan
African Press Organization
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May 11, 2020
Educational radio programmes for children on Radio Miraya was launched today, enabling more children to continue their learning while schools are closed. Since 20 March 2020, education facilities have been shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) inaugurates New Solar Panel Farm to generate Renewable Energy at UN House, Juba (By Moses Pasi)
African Press Organization
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March 3, 2020
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has inaugurated a new solar panel farm at one of its compounds in the capital Juba. The installation is expected to significantly reduce the peacekeeping mission’s use of noisy, expensive and excessively...
Coronavirus - South Sudan: COVID-19 in humanitarian crises: a double emergency
African Press Organization
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April 10, 2020
Download logo The International Rescue Committee’s analysis and approach to COVID-19 draws on decades of experience as a humanitarian and health responder in the world’s most complex crises, including as one of the largest responders to the Ebola...
Polio - Free Certification - The Africa Regional Certification Commission starts a verification exercise in South Sudan
African Press Organization
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January 24, 2020
Download logo A delegation of the Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for poliomyelitis eradication starts a two-week visit to South Sudan to verify the accuracy and extensiveness of the complete national documentation for polio-free...
Massive Challenges Ahead as South Sudan’s Police Launch Action Plan Against Sexual Violence
African Press Organization
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November 20, 2019
On Tuesday, a promise consensually conceived five years ago saw the light of day at a milestone event in Juba: a complete action plan for the South Sudan National Police Service on addressing conflict-related sexual violence in the country. “We...
In Juba, African Energy Chamber Chairman Urges Oil Industry to Support South Sudan’s Recovery with Investment
African Press Organization
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October 30, 2019
During his keynote speech at the opening of the South Sudan Oil & Power Conference & Exhibition in Juba this week, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber (https://EnergyChamber.org/) and CEO of the Centurion Law Group Nj Ayuk called for...
“WATER CONNECTS US ALL SUMMIT” ON SATURDAY JULY 23 HOSTED BY KOLLAB YOUTH AT THE CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER
EIN Presswire
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July 21, 2022
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, July 21, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Kollab Youth presents the Water Connects Us All Summit on Saturday, July 23 from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM. The summit is hosted by Kollab Youth at the California Science Center, in...
Egypt Petroleum Minister to Speak in Juba, Egyptian Oil Industry Poised to Support South Sudan Growth
African Press Organization
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August 23, 2019
Egypt’s Petroleum Minister H.E. Tarek El-Molla will speak at the South Sudan Oil and Power 2019 (SSOP) conference alongside South Sudan Minister of Petroleum Hon. Awow Daniel Chuang; South Sudan’s Ministry of Petroleum calls for oilfield...