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Boats belonging to Caritas South Sudan transporting persons fleeing violence in Sudan. Credit: Malakal Diocese

Caritas South Sudan Offering “humanitarian support” to Thousands Fleeing Sudan Violence

May 8, 2023

Caritas South Sudan, the development and humanitarian arm of the Catholic Bishops in the East-Central African country, is offering “humanitarian support” to thousands of South Sudanese fleeing the war in Sudan that broke out on April 15.

Fr. Lazar Arasu, the Director of Don Bosco Palabek Refugee Services with refugees in Uganda camp.

Salesians in Uganda Keeping Youth in Refugee Camps Productive during Pandemic

Jul 1, 2020

Refugees in Uganda have been hit by the four-month lockdown and ban on social gatherings and other public activities in the East African country worse than anyone else, members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) serving at Palabek refugee camp have told ACI Africa.

A section of South Sudanese during the 2011 referendum when they overwhelmingly voted to secede from Sudan.

South Sudanese Bishop Supports Post-Election Referendum to Resolve States’ Controversy

Dec 10, 2019

Weeks after a South Sudanese Bishop recommended that the controversy around boundaries and the number of states in his country be resolved through engaging citizens in a poll, the Government of the world’s youngest nation announced Friday, December 6 that the divisive issue of states will require a referendum, a move the Bishop has once again welcomed.

Bishop Stephen Nyodho of Malakal diocese at Good Shepherd Peace Center, Juba, South Sudan on 25 October 2019. He had just spoken to ACI Africa about the challenge of flooding in his diocese. / ACI Africa

Declare Flooding in South Sudan’s Malakal Diocese “a national disaster”, Bishop Concerned

Oct 27, 2019

South Sudan’s Malakal diocese, the most geographically vast of the seven dioceses of South Sudan, has been devastated by heavy flooding with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants affected and their lives at great risk, the Local Ordinary, Bishop Stephen Nyodho has confirmed in an interview with ACI Africa. He is calling on the government to declare the unprecedented phenomenon “a national disaster” and the international community to intervene to save lives.