South Sudan Stories
The statement came after the WFP said last week that it urgently required $274 million to maintain support for just the 2.5 million most acutely food...
Before this appointment, Guang served as Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs in South Sudan and Deputy Head of the United Nations Miss...
Since late 2024, South Sudanese security forces have intercepted an alarming number of modern Turkish-made rifles, some equipped with advanced optical...
Speaking at the opening of the session in Juba on Wednesday, President Salva Kiir Mayardit called on MPs to move beyond rhetoric and "serve the nation...
South Sudan has been under a United Nations arms embargo since 2018, which prohibits weapons transfers and external military support to the country's...
The visit comes in the wake of a diplomatic standoff earlier this year, after Juba initially resisted accepting a Congolese national deported by the T...
President Salva Kiir outlined a clear roadmap for military transformation, calling for the elimination of so-called "ghost names" from the SSPDF payro...
The eight men from Laos, Cuba, Myanmar, Mexico, Vietnam, and South Sudan were deported from the US in May but ended up being held under guard for week...
Majok's dismissal comes at a time of heightened unrest, particularly in the country's northeast region, where government forces have been battling the...
WFP aims to reach 470,000 people in Upper Nile and Northern Jonglei during the ongoing lean season, the hungriest period of the year that runs through...
The report shows that South Sudan recorded 1,607 victims of violence in the first quarter of 2025, including 679 injured, 149 abducted, and 40 subject...
The capital has been divided into ten administrative zones in an attempt to streamline the registration process and strengthen oversight of tax compli...
In May, escalating violence along the South Sudan–Ethiopia border forced MSF to relocate its medical operations from the border town of Burbeiye, Sout...
Statistics show that nearly 1.2 million people have crossed into South Sudan since April 2023, straining already fragile systems amid a worsening huma...
Notably, the US recently slashed billions of US dollars from global relief efforts. The slashed contributions once made up to half of all public human...
Harambee Starlets will be out to extend their winning run at the CECAFA Women’s Championship when they take on South Sudan this afternoon in Dar es Sa...
The statement emphasised that the reopening reflects "the continued strength of bilateral relations and the shared commitment of both countries to mai...
The decision follows an incident in April when armed men stormed the facility, threatened staff and looted medical supplies, forcing the hospital to t...
SSPDF spokesperson Major General Lul Ruai Koang announced the one-week disarmament ultimatum in a statement to newsrooms on Monday, noting that milita...
The decree empowers the government to deploy additional security forces and authorises "all necessary measures" to restore order in the conflict-hit a...
The UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan in July 2018 to stop weapons from fueling its civil war, which had led to thousands of...
South Sudan lacks the operational capacity to extract the oil it has in the ground.
According to South Sudan, the extension undermines the nation's delicate peace efforts and complicates the unification of its armed forces.
The embargo, first imposed in 2018 following years of ethnic conflict that the UN estimates has claimed nearly 400,000 lives, marks its seventh renewa...
The region is also battling the effects of conflict, as seen in Sudan, where 38.73 per cent of the population is severely hungry and 52.12 per cent mo...
Vivacell and its mother company, BVI, moved to court in 2018, lodging 17 claims against South Sudan and demanding $2.9 billion (around Sh375.1 billion...
Anin Ngot Ngot Mou, undersecretary in the Ministry of Health, described the rollout as a game changer in the fight against two of the country's leadin...
The Africa CDC announced that as of mid-May 2025, a total of 115,513 cholera cases and 2,424 deaths have been reported across the continent.
International efforts to end the conflict have included a United Nations (UN) embargo on arms transfers to the parties to the conflict, which expires...
