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National Police Service (NPS) is the armed national police force in South Sudan .
In 1928 the British established the Sudan Police Force (SPF) under the Ministry of Interior. [1] Throughout the colonial period, the police lacked the resources and manpower to deploy officers throughout Sudan. [1] Instead, the government gave tribal leaders authority to maintain order among their people and to enlist a limited number of ...
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan ( UNMISS) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission for South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011. UNMISS [1] was established on 8 July 2011 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996 (2011).
The South Sudan People's Defence Forces ( SSPDF ), formerly the Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ), is the army of the Republic of South Sudan. The SPLA was founded as a guerrilla movement against the government of Sudan in 1983 and was a key participant of the Second Sudanese Civil War, led by John Garang. After Garang's death in 2005, Salva Kiir was named the SPLA's new Commander-in ...
The forces that were doing the killing were discovered to be The Tiger battalion, an irregular force outside South Sudan's conventional military, which were trained, armed, and supported by Uganda People Defense Forces (UPDF) prior to the December 15 Juba Massacre.
The 2019–2022 Sudanese protests were street protests in Sudan which began in mid-September 2019, during Sudan's transition to democracy, about issues which included the nomination of a new Chief Justice and Attorney General, [6] the killing of civilians by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), [1] [2] the toxic effects of cyanide and mercury from gold mining in Northern state and South Kordofan ...
2016–2019 Wau clashes. Part of the South Sudanese Civil War, and the ethnic violence in South Sudan. UN protection of civilians (PoC) site in the town of Wau for refugees who were displaced during the fighting. By December 2016 around 29,000 civilians had found shelter there; [11] by July 2017 this number had swelled to 39,000.
Ethnic violence in South Sudan has a long history among South Sudan's varied ethnic groups. ... with the police force in Wau, composed of Dinka, fighting for the Dinka.