Press Releases
NNGO EXPO 2018 Press Release
Summary: Date:South Sudan NGO Forum Press Statement on Maban Attacks
Summary: Date:NGO Humanitarian Aid workers call for the return of 10 missing aid workers and the end to attacks on Aid workers in South Sudan.
Summary: Juba 27 April 2018: Ten humanitarian aid workers from national NGOs, international NGOs and UN agencies went missing outside southern Yei town while conducting a humanitarian needs assessment mission. This is the latest in a series of incidents that have directly targeted aid workers in the last two weeks. Other incidents in the very recent past have resulted in the death of aid workers.Date:South Sudan Ngo Forum Calls For Urgent Funding to Avert Crisis
Summary: Juba 14 March 2018: The humanitarian crisis has continued to deepen and spread across South Sudan and there are now 7 million people in the country in need of humanitarian assistance. Conflict has triggered the displacement of 4 million people internally and across South Sudan’s borders to neighbouring countries. Economic crisis is driving high rates of food insecurity and malnutrition, with 48% of the population now estimated to be in crisis or worse levels of food securityDate:NGOs concerned about deteriorating security situation in Juba
Summary: International and South Sudanese NGOs strongly condemn the killing of an aid worker, Rombek Paul Mori, in an armed robbery at the ACF office compound last Thursday. This brutal attack represents a worrying trend for NGOs based in Juba.Date:NGOs welcome a strong regulatory framework
Summary: NGO Bill: NGOs welcome a strong regulatory framework; warn NGO Bill should not be used to restrict civil society activities; call for strong consultation on implementation of Bill. 13 May 2015 (Juba, South Sudan) NGOs would welcome a strong regulatory framework in South Sudan -- it would be much easier for NGOs to operate within a coherent and consistent legal environment. It's also important to note that the new Bill includes substantive changes that will make it easier for NGOs to continue serving the people of South Sudan. The NGO Forum is encouraged by the willingness to consult with civil society groups, including NGOs, and to take their feedback into consideration.Date:South Sudanese National NGOs take a bold position at the IGAD/OCHA high- level pledging event on the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan
Summary: The Chair of the National NGO Steering Committee, of the South Sudan NGO forum, Mr Elijah Manyok, stated today that not only has the current war in South Sudan robbed the South Sudanese people of the human right of peace but has rendered over 6.4 million South Sudanese food insecure with nearly 2.5 million at risk of acute hunger and an estimated 2 million displaced from their homes.Date:South Sudan National NGO's statement on the killing of aid workers in Maban County
Summary: The South Sudan National NGO Steering Committee representatives are shocked and angered by the current waves of attacks in Maban COunty on South Sudanese aid workers targeted on the basis of their ethnicity.Date:NGOs condemn the killings of aid workers in Maban
Summary: It is with the heaviest of hearts that we remember our colleagues who were killed this week in ethnically targeted violence in Maban County. As an NGO community, we strongly condemn these killings and we offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of our colleagues who have died. Their senseless deaths, after their tireless efforts to provide aid and assistance to the people of South Sudan and to refugees from Sudan, are simply incomprehensible.Date:NGOs Welcome Ceasefire Agreement In South Sudan, Reaffirm Their Commitment To Help All Populations In Need Of Assistance
Summary: Fifty-five major humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in South Sudan have expressed their deep concern about the current humanitarian situation in the country and reaffirmed their commitment to help all civilian populations in need of assistance.Date: