News stories by Andrew Green

JUBA, South Sudan , Aug 14 (IPS) - Another deadline has passed. But instead of bringing about peace, the leaders of South Sudan's warring parties have allowed the country to continue its slide toward famine.

JUBA, May 15 (IPS) - It has not yet been a week, but South Sudan's most recent ceasefire appears set to collapse, along with hopes that – after five months of fighting – the country might finally be on the path to recovery.

JUBA, Jan 24 (IPS) - The overwhelming job of providing relief to the more than half a million displaced and wounded in South Sudan may have gotten a little easier with the signing of a ceasefire agreement last night in Addis Ababa, which is set to go into effect today.

JUBA, Nov 04 (IPS) - The non-binding referendum in Abyei – where people voted overwhelmingly to join South Sudan – and the ensuing celebration, has brought little immediate resolution to the long-festering Abyei problem.

ABEYI, Oct 30 (IPS) - When Chris Bak returned two weeks ago to the disputed border town of Abyei, which voted this week on whether to join Sudan or South Sudan, he barely recognised it as the place where he grew up. "Everything is dirty," he told IPS. "We were just going around and around, but we didn't this place."

, Nov 14 (IPS) - Every day at least five women are brought to the gynaecological ward of Uganda's Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala for treatment for complications caused by crude attempts to terminate their pregnancies.

KAMULI, Uganda, Sep 26 (IPS) - Three years ago, after Irene Kamyuka finished her sixth year of primary school in Uganda, her father ran short of money. With four siblings ahead of her in school, Kamyuka’s father told her she would have to drop out until his finances turned around.

KAMPALA, Aug 21 (IPS) - In the face of rising public criticism over a range of controversial political manoeuvres, the Ugandan government has become increasingly hostile to the work of non-governmental organisations, particularly those advocating for the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

As soon as Sanyu Nagia sits down in Barbara Namirimu’s home, she asks to see her patient’s bag of medicine. It is too heavy for the ill Namirimu to carry, so her mother, Efrance Namakula, brings it out and hands it over.

From a distance, Bugala Island in Lake Victoria is a patchwork of green and brown. The pattern is a result of dense forest retreating in the wake of recently planted palm tree plantations.