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WFP warns of potential food aid cut in South Sudan in September
XINHUA  |  Jul 23, 2025

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...

UN appoints China’s Guang Cong as new Horn of Africa special envoy amid regional crises
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 20, 2025

Before this appointment, Guang served as Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs in South Sudan and Deputy Head of the United Nations Miss...

UN warns Sudan conflict spilling into South Sudan as smuggled arms breach embargo
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 17, 2025

Since late 2024, South Sudanese security forces have intercepted an alarming number of modern Turkish-made rifles, some equipped with advanced optical...

South Sudan’s Parliament resumes amid budget crisis, unpaid wages, and fragile peace
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 17, 2025

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 President Salva Kiir urges removal of sanctions, arms embargo
XINHUA  |  Jul 16, 2025

South Sudan has been under a United Nations arms embargo since 2018, which prohibits weapons transfers and external military support to the country's...

South Sudan’s foreign minister in Washington for tense talks on deportations and governance
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 14, 2025

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...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir tasks new army chief with sweeping military reforms
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 11, 2025

President Salva Kiir outlined a clear roadmap for military transformation, calling for the elimination of so-called "ghost names" from the SSPDF payro...

South Sudan confirms arrival of eight immigrants deported from US
Mary Wambui  |  Jul 09, 2025

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...

South Sudan President Kiir sacks army chief after seven months in office
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 09, 2025

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 resumes emergency food airdrops in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 07, 2025

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...

UNMISS report: 739 civilians killed in South Sudan’s deadliest quarter since 2020
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 02, 2025

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...

South Sudan launches door-to-door taxpayer registration in Juba
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 02, 2025

The capital has been divided into ten administrative zones in an attempt to streamline the registration process and strengthen oversight of tax compli...

50 injured in four days of violence along South Sudan border - MSF
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 01, 2025

In May, escalating violence along the South Sudan–Ethiopia border forced MSF to relocate its medical operations from the border town of Burbeiye, Sout...

IOM sounds alarm over suspension of life-saving transport in South Sudan
Mary Wambui  |  Jun 20, 2025

Statistics show that nearly 1.2 million people have crossed into South Sudan since April 2023, straining already fragile systems amid a worsening huma...

What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture
The Conversation  |  Jun 19, 2025

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 eye another big win against struggling South Sudan
Erick Kariuki  |  Jun 19, 2025

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...

Germany, Norway reopen embassies in Juba as South Sudan tensions ease
Mwangi Maina  |  Jun 10, 2025

The statement emphasised that the reopening reflects "the continued strength of bilateral relations and the shared commitment of both countries to mai...

MSF permanently shuts down Ulang Hospital in South Sudan after attack
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 10, 2025

The decision follows an incident in April when armed men stormed the facility, threatened staff and looted medical supplies, forcing the hospital to t...

South Sudan’s military sets deadline for voluntary disarmament in conflict zones
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 09, 2025

SSPDF spokesperson Major General Lul Ruai Koang announced the one-week disarmament ultimatum in a statement to newsrooms on Monday, noting that milita...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir declares state of emergency in Warrap, Unity states over rising insecurity
Mwangi Maina  |  Jun 06, 2025

The decree empowers the government to deploy additional security forces and authorises "all necessary measures" to restore order in the conflict-hit a...

US defends UN Security Council’s extension of arms embargo on South Sudan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 02, 2025

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...

Is Sudan’s war the reason for South Sudan’s economic crisis? What’s really going on with oil revenue
The Conversation  |  Jun 02, 2025

South Sudan lacks the operational capacity to extract the oil it has in the ground.

South Sudan condemns UN Security Council’s extension of arms embargo, sanctions
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 01, 2025

According to South Sudan, the extension undermines the nation's delicate peace efforts and complicates the unification of its armed forces.

UN Security Council extends arms embargo on South Sudan despite opposition
Mwangi Maina  |  May 31, 2025

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...

Foreign aid cuts imperil millions in East Africa as hunger crisis deepens, World Vision warns
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 29, 2025

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...

Tribunal orders South Sudan to pay Sh9.6 billion to Vivacell over investment deal breach
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 29, 2025

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...

South Sudan launches lifesaving vaccines to fight pneumonia, diarrhoea in children
XINHUA  |  May 28, 2025

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...

Cholera death toll in Africa surpasses 2,400 as South Sudan, DRC, Angola and Sudan hardest hit
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 25, 2025

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.

UN arms embargo on South Sudan nears expiry amid renewed violence, civilian suffering
DW News  |  May 25, 2025

International efforts to end the conflict have included a United Nations (UN) embargo on arms transfers to the parties to the conflict, which expires...

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