UN rights chief urged on Friday for warring sides in South Sudan to pull back from the brink, warning that the human rights situation risks further deterioration as fighting intensifies.
Britain on Thursday advised its citizens in South Sudan to leave the country following rising tensions that have brought the East African nation to the brink of renewed civil war.
Children from East Africa, impacted by recent heatwaves and floods that closed schools in recent months, demand climate action from world leaders at COP29 in Azerbaijan to protect their education.
South Sudanese authorities are holding up UN fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a humanitarian crisis, the U.N. mission there said.
Sudan's warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in the capital.
