South Sudan has formally been at peace since the 2018 agreement ended the five-year conflict that killed hundreds of thousands of people, but violence...
President William Ruto, who has been leading South Sudan’s Tumaini Initiative peace process, acknowledged the escalating crisis, revealing that he had...
Ruto said he had met with the opposition delegation and, at the request of the South Sudanese government, agreed to temporarily pause the negotiations...
In what is being viewed as a strategic realignment, businessman Benjamin Bol Mel, a prominent figure from Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, was appointed...
President Kiir dismissed the country’s army chief, police inspector-general, and central bank governor in a significant reshuffle following recent sec...
Despite the hefty budget, Lomuro reassured that the High-Level Standing Committee would continue engaging institutions to bring the figure down to a m...
This extension shifts the end of the transitional period from February 2025 to February 2027 and moves the scheduled elections from December 2024 to D...
South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, remains heavily dependent on its northern neighbour to export oil to international markets....
The Presidency highlighted that the remaining months of the current transitional period will focus on mobilising funds to ensure the effective impleme...
Machar accused the initiative of overstepping its mandate and undermining the East African Community's existing revitalised peace agreement and sovere...
The civil society group also called for the dissolution of the National Security Service (NSS), advocating for its reconstitution as the National Inte...
This empowers the Bank of South Sudan to set monetary policies aimed at domestic price stability, manage currency issuance, regulate the financial sec...
The changes come at a time when there is an ongoing transitional period in South Sudan, which was extended by the parties to the peace agreement in Au...
Ramaphosa met with key South Sudanese actors, including President Salva Kiir, and his first deputy Riek Machar, to receive updates on the peace agreem...
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