Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan early next year, the Vatican said on Thursday. The pontiff cancelled a scheduled trip...
South Sudan is battling to pay the salaries of its public servants with the government currently hit by cash crunch. South Sudan has been beset by...
The United Nations said on Saturday at least 7.7 million are facing severe food crisis and in need of humanitarian assistance in South Sudan. In a...
The political strife that has rocked South Sudan since its independence in 2011, may soon come to an end with the country’s strongest political rivals calling...
At least five persons reportedly sustained serious injuries after a cargo plane crashed in South Sudan on Tuesday. The plane was landing at the Agok Airstrip...
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August of this year will mark the one-year anniversary of the end of South Sudan’s civil war, yet recent surges of violence suggest that peace is...
At least ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the region’s governor and the...
South Sudan has imposed a one month ban on religious and political events and shut down most schools following a spike in Covid-19 in the country....
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday an estimated 10.4 million children in eight countries, including Nigeria, may suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021....
The United Nations (UN) has revealed that no fewer than 6.5 million South Sudanese face severe food insecurity in the country with the numbers projected to...
The United Nations (UN) has announced that it has temporarily suspended humanitarian services in the troubled eastern part of South Sudan after the killing of two...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari would ensure an end to impunity for...
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has informed that close to one million people have been displaced in South Sudan due to...
Tragedy struck on Saturday near South Sudan’s capital of Juba when a cargo plane belonging to a local operator crashed, killing four passengers and three crew...
The United Nations has revealed that no fewer than 70 people were killed and dozens wounded during weekend clashes between South Sudan’s army and armed civilians...
South Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has confirmed the country’s suspension from the African Union for failing to honour its financial obligations to the body over the...
South Sudan’s Vice President, Riek Machar and his wife Angelina Teny, serving as the defence minister, have tested positive for the coronavirus, his office confirmed on...
South Sudan has confirmed its index case of coronavirus – a United Nation’s staff. The country is the 51st African country to record a case of...
After over six years of disagreement and strife, former South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has been sworn in as first vice-president, sealing a peace deal...
A report released by a Commission put together by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet, has ranked Nigeria in the bottom 10 in...
United States government on Wednesday slammed financial sanctions on one of South Sudan’s Vice Presidents, Taban Deng Gai, over his alleged involvement in rights abuses. A...
The United States of America has threatened visa restrictions on anyone who attempts to damage the peace process in South Sudan. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo,...
The United States has expressed disappointment at the delay in the formation of a government of national unity despite the agreement between the South Sudan president,...
The ongoing screening service for Ebola in South Sudan has been suspended following the killing of three aid workers in the country. The development was announced...
Three countries namely South Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda are “at very high risk” of Ebola importation from an outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, so...
The United Nation has expressed concern after no less than 125 women and girls were brutally raped by unknown gunmen in the northern town of Bentiu...
Tragedy struck in South Sudan when a 19-seater plane carrying 22 people crashed into a river. Reports say 19 lives were lost when the plane carrying...
The United Nations has raised an alarm over the whereabouts of 10 aid workers who went missing in South Sudan, prompting concerns over the group’s wellbeing....
After more than four years of civil war and failed ceasefires, South Sudan is facing its ‘toughest year on record’ and is close to famine so...
James Gatdet Dak, the spokesman for South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has been sentenced to death by a High Court in the country’s capital of...
The United Nations has revealed that armed groups in South Sudan have released more than 300 child soldiers as part of an ongoing project to free...
The executive director of the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) Henrietta H Fore has sounded a note of warning claiming that no less than 250,000 children in...
No less than 15 helpless kids have reportedly lost their lives in South Sudan following a botched vaccine campaign in the war ravaged country. According to...
The United Nations through two of its agencies, the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the refugee agency UNHCR have both revealed in reports that more than...
An indigenous oil firm, Oranto Petroleum, has entered into a major oil investment drive, worth $500 million in South Sudan, which is to lead to developing...
An Ethiopian government official has informed that gunmen from South Sudan killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 others during an attack which occurred in the Gambella’s...
The United Nations has revealed that the world is facing its largest humanitarian crises since the UN was established in 1945 with more than 20 million...
In a bid to fight the debilitating pangs of hunger, hundreds of thousands of wizened South Sudanese families have resorted to eating weeds and water lilies...
Authorities in South Sudan have denied clams by the UN that a process of ethnic cleansing is underway amid civil war in the country. While strongly...
No less than nine people were killed and 11 others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on people watching a football match in the South Sudan...
The United Nations has declared in a statement that Kenya’s deportation of South Sudan’s rebel spokesman James Gatdet Dak (a registered refugee) back to his home...
The United Nations has revealed that over 1 million refugees have fled war-torn South Sudan for safety in neighboring countries with women, children and survivors of...
The South Sudanese government led by President Salva Kiir has accepted the deployment of 4,000 more UN peacekeeping troops after first rejecting the regional protection force...
Spokesman of South Sudan’s former vice president and opposition leader has revealed that his boss Riek Machar has fled the country in a bid to escape...
The decision by the United Nations to deploy 4,000 strong troops to Juba, has been disapproved by authorities in South Sudan. Moments after the UN Security...
Troubled South Sudan is boiling again as nine lives were claimed over the weekend following renewed face-off between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and armed...
Days after sacking his deputy Riek Machar, South Sudan President Salva Kiir has wrote a letter to the military ordering them to produce his second-in-command and...
War prone South Sudan is now suffering the consequences of the stand-off between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and armed men loyal to first vice...
A day after the United Nations warned of a possibility of fresh fighting in Juba, heavily armed Ugandan troops have crossed into South Sudan to rescue...
Days after heavy fighting broke out claiming the lives of over a hundred soldiers in the South Sudan capital of Juba, the leaders of the warring...
