The following is an account of KMF Productions, the creators of the RTÉ internationally acclaimed TV documentary series ‘What in the World,’ recent visit to Afghanistan to shoot an episode of the upcoming series. Told through diary entries by...
In May, we shared some good news about the hope for peace in South Sudan with the return of the first Vice-President James Wani Igga and former leader of the Opposition Riek Machar to the capital Juba. Their return...
Rejoice Martin checks the IV on 2-year old Yusef as his mother, Flora Silva, restrains him, in the paediatric ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Martin, a paediatric nurse, is a 2013 graduate...
An aerial view of the Za’atri Refugee Camp in Jordan. Photo: The US Department of State. As the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference gets underway in London, the Dóchas Humanitarian Aid Working Group has produced a joint...
At the end of 2013, a political dispute between President Salva Kiir and vice-President Riek Machar, following months of escalating tensions, reached boiling point. Gun battles in the capital Juba in South Sudan quickly escalated to massacres and continued...
So far, so good! We have now been in the dry season for more than two months and, notwithstanding rumours of both sides re-arming heavily during the last wet season, South Sudan has not erupted into the violent conflict...