UNHCR Report Confirms Collapse of Peace
UNHCR Report Confirms Collapse of Peace: SSFDA Calls for Accountability, Access, and an End to Kiir’s War on Civilians The South Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SSFDA) welcomes the recent 3 June 2025 statement from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which confirms that over 165,000 people have been newly displaced due to escalating violence across South Sudan since February. This figure includes 100,000 who have fled the country and 65,000 newly internally displaced persons (IDPs), mostly in Upper Nile State.
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Press Release
South Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SSFDA)
For Immediate Release
Date: 4 June 2025
Contact: Press Office | www.ssfda.org
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UNHCR Report Confirms Collapse of Peace: SSFDA Calls for Accountability, Access, and an End to Kiir’s War on Civilians
The South Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SSFDA) welcomes the recent 3 June 2025 statement from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which confirms that over 165,000 people have been newly displaced due to escalating violence across South Sudan since February. This figure includes 100,000 who have fled the country and 65,000 newly internally displaced persons (IDPs), mostly in Upper Nile State.
These numbers are a damning indictment of a regime that has abandoned both peace and people. UNHCR’s report identifies active conflict, inter-communal violence, and humanitarian access restrictions as key drivers of this surge in displacement. Upper Nile—already host to multiple military campaigns by Kiir’s SSPDF and allied militias—has seen the worst of it. UNHCR’s warning comes amid a growing cholera outbreak, rising child refugee numbers, and the collapse of humanitarian supply chains.
These conditions are not natural disasters. They are the outcome of a political disaster: the complete breakdown of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). The evidence is plain—peace has collapsed, and the population is fleeing once again.
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Chairman Samuel Mut Gai Dhap Responds:
> “The UNHCR has now confirmed what our people already knew in their bones—there is no peace. Salva Kiir is not presiding over a country, he is presiding over an exodus.
Every day, his forces bomb, displace, and starve civilians, while international agencies issue reports without naming the aggressor.
SSFDA is here to name him. We call for immediate access to affected areas, immediate humanitarian deployment, and the suspension of any diplomatic cover for this failed regime.
We will not accept the normalization of genocide through silence. Every displaced child, every disease-stricken village, and every mother fleeing across a border is a testimony against Kiir’s rule.”
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SSFDA Urgent Demands
1. Immediate UN and AU monitoring missions to Upper Nile, Jonglei, and Unity states, with unimpeded humanitarian access to civilian populations.
2. A formal declaration from IGAD and the AU that R-ARCSS has collapsed, and a new inclusive framework must be pursued.
3. Increased humanitarian funding to areas hosting returnees and internally displaced populations, including Panyijar, Fangak, and Nasir.
4. An end to silence: We call on UNHCR and international agencies to name the state actors responsible for this new wave of suffering.
South Sudanese civilians are being displaced by military campaigns, not random unrest. Their suffering is not an accident—it is a strategy. SSFDA is building a political alternative rooted in federalism, human rights, and public service. We will not let this humanitarian disaster become invisible.
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