Tag: South Sudan

  • South Sudanese in San Diego Concerned About Violence Back Home

    By Jill Replogle In recent weeks, fighting in South Sudan has caused more than 50,000 people to seek protection at United Nations peacekeeping bases there. The violence in the fledgling nation worries South Sudanese living in the U.S. with family still in the country. San Diego is home to more than 4,000 refugees from South…

  • Tweet City Heights: Deciding How to Spend Surplus, Where to Plant Trees

    By Megan Burks Catching Up On Curfew Sweeps This week, we shared a report from Speak City Heights partner voiceofsandiego.org about the questionable growth of curfew sweeps in low-income neighborhoods. In areas such as southeast San Diego and City Heights, police have tripled curfew arrests without analyzing whether they deter juvenile crime or unnecessarily introduce…