Monday 16 June 2014

Protect children from violence

Child holding poster in Uganda.
Every day children in Uganda are affected by conflict, suffer from violence, neglect, abuse and exploitation at home, in schools, in institutions, in the community.

Ugandan children have gone through different challenges e.g. children in northern Ugandan have seen the worst violence because they have witnessed violence themselves such as forcing young boys to join the army at an early age which traumatizes them emotionally, young girls are being raped and become mothers at an early age and they cannot to take care of their babies and in the process of raping them some men are affected with HIV which becomes more worse to the young girls and to babies which are being born  and without  freedom  from  violence  sustainable development cannot be fully achieved.

South Sudan crisis retards regional development in East Africa.

People displaced from South Sudan conflict. image source: Google 
The deadly turmoil that broke out on the 15th December 2013 in Juba threatens to ignite a full scale ethnic civil war across South Sudan. The fight for power between President, Kiir’s Dinkas and Machar’s Nuei, threaten to tumble a newly independent nation. South Sudan is one of the youngest member state in the UN having been welcomed in the UN General Assembly in 2011.

It was triggered by an alleged failed coup by one faction of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). The political differences became public when President Salva Kiir sacked his vice-president, Riek Machar, and several cabinet ministers.