South Sudan: Slow Progress, Stubborn Cycles of Violence, As South Sudan Turns 10

21 June 2021

South Sudan, the UN's youngest Member State, is marking its tenth anniversary of independence amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges, the Secretary-General's Special Representative told Security Council members on Monday.

Nicholas Haysom, who also heads the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan, known as UNMISS, recalled the broad international optimism that surrounded the country's independence on 9 July 2011.

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