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Urwa Al-Sadiq, a senior member of Sudan’s National Umma Party (NUP), has acknowledged the internal conflicts within the formation. The party enjoys a wide support base in the north and west of the country.
The supervisors of the communal kitchens in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman have complained about the use of firewood to cook free meals for the city’s residents.
Kuel Aguer Kuel, a former detainee and now key participant in the Nairobi peace talks, has called on President Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar to step down.
The Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs on Monday quashed charges against Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak, an activist and government critic.
Nicholas Dupuis, the head coach of the South Sudan national football team has called for support for the home team in today’s World Cup qualifier against Sudan.
Nabil Adib, the head of the committee investigating the mass killing during the violent break-up of the sit-in in front of the army command in Khartoum on June 3, 2019, has revealed that its work had stalled due to the ongoing war in the country.
At least 70 suspected gang members were arrested on Sunday and Monday morning after they forcefully disarmed some policemen of their guns after the latter tried to contain gang violence in the Bentiu Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) Camp in Unity State on Sunday.
Authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) said an investigation is underway into last month’s deadly clashes involving two rival Murle communities in Gumuruk County.
The newly reconstructed Juba National Stadium, which is also home to South Sudan’s national football team, Bright Stars, will officially be opened on Tuesday.
The co-founder of the Volunteer Initiative at Al-Nau Hospital in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, Ali Gabbay, who also doubles as a member of the initiative’s media office, has expressed concern over the poor funding of the hospital's Unidentified Persons Department.
South Sudan’s Minister of Cabinet Affairs Dr. Martin Elia Lumuro on Monday denied reports that his ministry diverted USD 10 million earmarked for peace implementation institutions to special projects in the Office of the President and other purposes.
A group of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) fighters under the leadership of Mustafa Tambour has announced its defection to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Zalingei in Sudan’s Central Darfur State.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday unanimously passed the Tourism Bill 2024 after its third reading stage after it was presented by the joint committees on Wildlife Conservation and Tourism and Legislation and Justice.
It was distinguished Greek historian Herodotus who remarked during his overseas debut in the late 4th Century BC that Egypt was “a gift of the Nile”. His observation is no less true today than in the distant past as the Nile River remains Egypt’s sole source of life.
The authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Saturday handed over seven former captives to their family members at a ceremony in Pibor town.
The South Sudan NGO Forum, a collective representing 112 international NGOs and 233 national NGOs, is deeply concerned by the recent allegations of sexual abuse involving NGOs operating in South Sudan, the Forum said in a press statement over the weekend.
Kuel Aguer Kuel, a former detainee and now key participant in the Nairobi peace talks, says he has forgiven anyone involved in his detention in Juba without clear charges.
The main hospital in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, has been attacked and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the health facility, told Reuters on Sunday, while pro-democracy activists blamed the attack on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Over 500 people have been treated at the Ayod Primary Healthcare Centre (PHCC) following an outbreak of red eye disease in the Jonglei State last week.
The Emergency Room in Jebel Awlia, an impoverished district in southern Khartoum state, has announced the evacuation of patients and elderly individuals who require medical care to any safe location outside Khartoum State for treatment.
The Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) has said its new multi-purpose building at Jebel, suburb of Juba will be completed this month.
The South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA) and Other Opposition Groups participating in the High-level Mediation for South Sudan facilitated by the Government of Kenya have denied authoring a position paper to the mediators demanding among other things the removal of the vice presidents in South Sudan apart from Dr. Riek Machar.
At least 151 GPOC company casual workers are expected to sign new contracts next Tuesday to become the staff of Sudd Company at Unity oilfield in Rubkona County, officials said.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretary Workneh Gebeyehu has expressed deep sorrow and outrage over the tragic events in Wad al Noura village, Al-Gazira state, Sudan.
Authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have said 43 cattle traders who were attacked on a road while taking livestock to Juba for sale last week are still missing.
Sudanese refugees stranded in a forest in the Amhara region of Ethiopia on Friday received financial support from Sudanese benefactors around the world to address their dire humanitarian situation.
The Sudan national football team on Saturday evening arrived in Juba to face the South Sudan national team, the Bright Stars, next Tuesday in a qualifier match for the World Cup 2026.
In this poignant interview, Madina Abdul-Aziz Arbab shares her harrowing journey from El Geneina to Adré camp in eastern Chad amidst the violence in West Darfur. As part of Radio Tamazuj’s Stories of Survival and Hope series, Madina recounts the challenges she faced, the loss of her husband and relatives, and the struggles of raising her children in a refugee camp.
The South Sudanese Pochalla region near the border with Ethiopia is experiencing severe hunger, Radio Tamazuj has learnt.
A workshop aimed at amending and reviewing some of the laws relating to the Criminal Procedure Code of 2008 has ended in the capital Juba.
The country has seen a disturbing increase in corruption since gaining independence, which not only undermines national security but also threatens its sovereignty.
The border town of Pochalla along the South Sudanese-Ethiopian border in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) has been hit by severe hunger amidst a shortage of basic food items.
The South Sudan National Olympics Committee on Thursday held a carnival in Juba to mark the beginning of the countdown to the 2024 games in Paris next month.
The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, has called for a speedy resolution to the conflict and the political divisions in South Sudan.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir will officially open the Juba National Stadium on June 11, the committee in charge of the ceremony has announced.
The Governor of Upper Nile State announced that the security situation in Malakal town has returned to normal after recent high tensions.
A section of Sudanese citizens in the capital, Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, expressed mixed reactions on Friday as the security and humanitarian crises in Sudan continue to intensify.
The youth leader of Western Equatoria State’s Tambura County has called for a conference to restore trust and peace in the area.
Flash floods caused by recent heavy downpour have destroyed several houses in Juba Na Bari residential area of Juba.
At least seven people were killed and 10 others were injured after suspected armed assailants from Twic East County attacked an island in Duk County.
The South Sudan Inspector General of Police, Gen. Atem Marol Biar, has warned the police against corruption and favoring criminals based on relations and ethnicity.
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan on Thursday said she was appalled by reports of violent attacks and a high number of casualties in the village of Wad Al-Noura in Al Gazira State on 5 June.
Parliament on Thursday demanded an explanation from the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Martin Elia Lomuro, on the use of $10,000,000 meant for peace agreement institutions.
South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei on Thursday revealed that the Kenya-led mediation team had presented a 75-page document to the parties at the peace talks for responses.
The displaced Sudanese who fled from El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, to Shagra South have decried the deteriorating security situation and the lack of food and basic services.
South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State Council of Ministers on Thursday declared 2024 as the year for growing groundnuts.
Makawi Mohammed Ahmed, a reporter at the official state news agency of Sudan (SUNA), and his brother Shamseddin Mohamed Ahmed were killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during its Wednesday attack on the village of Wad Al-Noura, the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate said.
The Eastern Equatoria State Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) has launched the mobilization of resources to alleviate the suffering of the over 25,000 people rendered destitute by cattle rustlers.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the State Ministry of Local Government in Lakes State have organized a three-month training on good governance, equitable service delivery and peace in the state.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday said it continues efforts to maintain calm in Malakal following an outbreak of violence in the capital of the restive Upper Nile State.
The leader of South Sudan’s Democratic Change (DC) Party, Onyoti Adigo Nyikuac, has called upon all political parties to unanimously agree to go for the General Elections scheduled for December 2024.
A 40-year-old man identified only as Awor took his own life on Wednesday after beating his wife to a comma in Eastern Equatoria State’s Lafon County.
A Sudanese pro-democracy activists' committee said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a village in El Gazira State, killing at least 100 people.
Soldiers of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed journalist Muawiya Abdel Razek and three of his family members on Tuesday night at their home in the Al-Droshab neighborhood, north of Khartoum Bahri, the Sudanese Journalists’ Syndicate said.
Electricity sector experts have warned that Khartoum was on the verge of a total power blackout due to the ongoing war.
Northern Bahr el Ghazal State’s Ministry of General and Instruction on Tuesday carried out an educational campaign in Aweil South County to promote education among local communities.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has secured a consensus to establish a civil administration in Sudan’s East Darfur State.
The Tumaini Initiative presents a rare opportunity for South Sudanese to rethink and address the fundamental challenges facing the constitution-making process since 2012.
The Zalingei Teaching Hospital in Central Darfur State has reported the theft of medicines from its warehouses.
As South Sudan joined the rest of the world to mark World Environment Day on Wednesday, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry urged communities in lowlands and flood-prone areas to relocate to higher and safer grounds as forecast floods may wreak havoc.
Interior Minister Angelina Teny on Wednesday called on the police to be exemplary to the citizens by upholding law and order as required by the 2018 peace agreement.
The National Consensus Forum (NCF) has strongly denounced the recent eruption of the deadly inter-communal violence in Malakal between Shilluk and Padang Dinka ethnicities, which resulted in the loss of precious lives and property.
A man shot and injured his maternal uncle and later shot and killed another relative who had intervened to arbitrate a dispute over a cow in a village on the outskirts of Jonglei State’s Ayod town on Sunday night.
The former governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, Kuel Aguer Kuel, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday for the High-level Mediation Talks on South Sudan being arbitrated by the Kenyan government between the Government of South Sudan, hold-out opposition groups, and other stakeholders.
In South Sudan, the use of identity politics has become a potent tool as the election approaches.
Several clients of the Bank of Khartoum from the Darfur region have accused the bank of making unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts in Nyala, Al-Daein, Zalingei, and Al-Geneina without prior notification.
Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez, the associate spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday said the UN is grossly alarmed about the predicament of civilians caught in fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Al-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State.
The Al-Damazin Court in the Blue Nile region on Monday issued a death sentence under Article 50, ‘Undermining the Constitutional System,’ against Eissa Hamid, a member of the National Umma Party’s Professionals’ Circle.
Authorities in Central Equatoria State’s Lainya County have raised concern over the increasing pregnancies among school children.
The South Sudan Law Review Committee (SSLRC) on Tuesday held a validation workshop to review and amend the Criminal Procedure Code of 2008.
The Basic Education Certificate Exams for Sudan commenced on Saturday in Juba, where 38 students from the Sudanese community residing in South Sudan sat for their exams at the Sudanese International Dreams School. The exam bell was rung by the Ambassador of the Republic of Sudan in Juba, Jamal Malik.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Tuesday postponed a session meant to question ministers under the government’s economic cluster to a later date after most of them failed to turn up.
President Salva Kiir has found the right formula for setting up systems and appointments by boldly and fearlessly coming out of condoning and sympathizing with fruitless strategies, to taking his own decision to axe officials and appoint productive leaders to lift his government all over the Country.
A group of students from Al-Imam Al-Hadi College in Omdurman has launched an initiative to clean, rehabilitate, and restore the college in Wad Nubawi following the army’s advance in the area.
Lawyers in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have recommitted themselves to promoting the rule of law and justice for all, explaining that South Sudanese communities require better legal services.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has pledged $1.082 million in relief items to support South Sudanese returnees fleeing the Sudan conflict, with the first batch set to arrive this month, a government official said.
The Ministry of Higher Education is considering suspending the salaries of employees at three universities in the western Darfur region, citing a halt in their operations.
At least two people died and five others were injured after 3 motorcycles collided in Kapoeta Town in Eastern Equatoria State on Sunday.
Torit Town Mayor Mustafa Albino Zachariah has banned all forms of disco dances in the municipality.
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, has received a written message from South Sudanese President Salva Kiir regarding bilateral relations and oil security.
Taqaddum has denied claims of any dispute between the National Umma Party and the SPLM-North faction over the separation of religion and the state.
Sudanese military aircraft conducted airstrikes on Sunday and Monday morning, targeting positions held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in several locations in White Nile State, sparking reports of civilian casualties.
An SSPDF soldier and a Somali trader were killed, while two foreign nationals, a Ugandan and a Kenyan, sustained injuries in a road ambush along the Ngauro-Kapoeta Road on Sunday.
Over 20 members of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) have concluded a three-day election preparedness training in Lakes State.
Al-Zain Ahmed Al-Haj, the Head of Civil Administration in South Darfur, urged state citizens to unite with the administration to confront challenges and uphold national unity, rejecting racism and tribalism.
Eastern Equatoria State officials have objected to the upgrading of the Riwoto and Magwi primary health care centers (PHCC) to county hospitals, citing lack of consultation.
The Bank of South Sudan Governor, James Alic Garang, has said the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Development Fund will grant the country disaster risk financing.
Pope Francis appeals to world leaders to seek peace between Sudan’s warring factions, as aid agencies say time is running out for millions of people in the country, Vatican news reports.
In South Sudan, over seven million people are expected to face acute food insecurity by July, severely impacting TB and HIV patients. Unable to endure their rigorous treatments on an empty stomach, many suffer severe pain or reduce their medication, putting their lives at significant risk. This stark reality forces patients in Leer, Unity State, to choose between taking life-saving medication and living pain-free. And watch their health decline.
More than 77 community members from eight communities residing along the Kideopo Valley area of Eastern Equatoria State, have concluded a two-day forum. They have recommitted to implementing previous dialogues aimed at resolving ongoing conflicts.
The Reform and Prosperity team in the recently concluded South Sudan Bar Association elections has conceded defeat but criticized the High Electoral Body for “poorly handling the electoral process.”
Warrap State authorities said eight people were killed and seven others wounded in a communal revenge attack in Tonj East County last Thursday.
Farmers in Tolodi County in the Nuba Mountains region are gearing up for the farming season, according to Ahamed Abdulgadir, the Director of Agriculture.
The Relief Rehabilitation Commission (RRC), the Center for Emergency and Development (CEDS), the directorate of WASH and sanitation in the State ministry of Infrastructure, Land and Public Utility, and the international and national NGOs Thursday held a quarterly annual review and flood preparedness meeting in Rumbek, Lakes State.
Former Magwi County commissioner David Otto Remson insisted on his innocence as he and a co-accused returned home on Friday for the first time since their detention in Juba in December last year.
Dr. Annette Weber, European Union Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, said that 24 percent of the population in Sudan has entered the stage of famine, warning that the country will slide into a Syrian scenario if peace negotiations are not resumed.
The South Sudan National Council of Ministers on Friday passed the National Examination 2011 amendment Bill 2024.
South Sudan on Friday received 645,000 malaria vaccine doses to be distributed to 28 counties with the highest infection burden.
The UN Mission in South Sudan says it is deeply concerned about the outbreak of violence in Malakal, which led to the deaths of several people yesterday.
Three UN agencies warned Thursday of a “significant deterioration” in the nutrition situation of children and mothers in Sudan, calling for “urgent action”.
Agiu Athuai Agiu, a member of the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly representing Marial-Bai under the SPLM ruling party, has highlighted a recent surge in cattle raids in his constituency over the past two days, allegedly perpetrated by local youth believed to be from Warrap State.
The Juba Local Football Association, in collaboration with the South Sudan Football Association, has successfully trained 40 referees in Juba. The week-long training concluded on Tuesday, marking a significant milestone for the local federation.
On Wednesday, the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS), in partnership with Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), distributed 9 laptop computers to its state branch offices across South Sudan, excluding Western Equatoria State.
The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan despite appeals from the world’s newest nation to lift the restrictive measure.
The Resistance Committees of Al-Hoosh in South Al-Gazira State have accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of storming Al-Hoosh city and its surrounding areas this week, leading to the deaths and injuries of numerous civilians.
The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) announced on Wednesday its commitment to enhancing the capabilities of electoral officials in preparation for the December 2024 elections.
The Sudanese Civil Political Feminist Initiative reported the arrest of activist Nada Hashim by security forces in El-Gedaref state on Sunday.
The chairperson of the electoral committee for the South Sudan Bar Association, Justice Molana Kulang Gurbang, announced the victory of Arop Malueth Monoon, the Advocates Alliance candidate, in the elections held on Wednesday at Freedom Hall in Juba.
A female member of an SPLM delegation and a driver were killed, and a child was injured in an ambush along the Camp 15-Chukudum road on Wednesday
Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi, a leading member of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), has hinted at a possible alliance with the ruling SPLM party in the lead-up to elections.
Ruben Madol Arol, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, presented a financing agreement between South Sudan and Ethiopia to the national parliament on Wednesday.
A member of South Sudan’s Parliament has raised concerns about alleged sexual exploitation of young South Sudanese, particularly women, seeking jobs with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in the country.
Authorities in East Darfur State have initiated a campaign to monitor medications in both public and private pharmacies, as well as in offices of organizations in the pharmaceutical sector. A significant quantity of expired medications was seized and subsequently destroyed on Tuesday in Al-Daein city.
The Ministry of Agriculture in the Abyei Administrative Area announced on Wednesday that the community is prepared to embark on agriculture despite facing climate change and economic hardships.
General Malik Agar has stated that the government will not participate in negotiations with the RSF in the Jeddah Forum concerning the ongoing war in the country.
The Lukluk Community Agency for Development (LCAD), with financial backing from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), organized a training session for 74 women on peace and security in the Abyei Area last week.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit has issued a decree sacking the governor of Jonglei State.
Today, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) engaged in clashes with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Al-Thawrat areas 26, 27, and 29 of Karari locality in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman.
Abdallah Hamdok, the leader of the Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces, a Sudanese umbrella group also known as Taqaddum, has urged governments hosting Sudanese refugees to step up their efforts in assisting these displaced individuals.
The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), supported by Unto church-based organisation, distributed 859 cartons of food items to over 30 beneficiaries, including poor disabled individuals and orphaned school children in Rumbek, the state headquarters. The distribution event took place on Monday.
Lawyers in South Sudan participated in elections on Wednesday to determine the leadership of the South Sudan Bar Association across several cities including Juba, Wau, Aweil, and Renk.
Joseph Wol Modesto, Secretary General of the Communist Party of South Sudan, has called on the parties to the peace agreement to conclude the roadmap and start an inclusive workshop to discuss the future of the country.
Freedom of opinion and expression are enshrined in international laws, treaties, and regulations, with most countries endorsing them. They are considered fundamental principles of international justice and essential for human dignity.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Tuesday the need to end the war in Sudan with military leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the State Department said.
Nyakuron FC has qualified for the local first division championship in Juba after a barren 2-2 draw against the Black Eagles FC at Buluk Stadium on Monday.
A member of parliament has castigated Sunday's attack on three traders along the Lafon- Mogiri Road in Eastern Equatoria State.
A member of Parliament in South Sudan has urged the August House to formulate a law to protect consumers from market exploitation.
Security Advisor Tut Gatluak has been tasked to engage the warring parties in Sudan after the country's oil pipeline to international markets, which passes through neighbouring Sudan, was damaged.
A senior Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs official has appealed to neighbouring countries hosting the Sudanese refugees to treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve.
The El Geneina Emergency Court judge, Ibrahim Al-Dome, appointed Attorney Abdel Fattah Mohammed as the court's prosecutor.
A severe cash crisis has hit East Darfur's El-Daein locality, forcing residents to rely predominantly on mobile money and banking applications.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday night reshuffled Upper Nile State government officials representing the ruling SPLM Party.
South Sudan's parliament on Monday adopted resolutions of the 148 assembly of the Inter-Parliamentarian Union (IPU), which was held in March in Geneva.
Authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) say they have launched investigations into last Thursday’s fatal attack on the mobile service engineering company, Universal Service Access Fund (USAF) convoy.
A founding conference of the Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces, a Sudanese umbrella group also known as Taqaddum, commenced on Sunday, May 26, 2024, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The conference will run until May 30.
The U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan Clementine Nkweta-Salami said it she was deeply saddened by the death of an MSF staff member when shelling hit his house in Al Fasher on Saturday.
At least 18 abductees have been handed over to the Jonglei State government through the UN Mission (UNMISS) on Friday, the authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) said.
The newly appointed commissioner of Pochalla County in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) has promised to prioritize peace and reconciliation.
The Transitional Legislative Assembly in Lakes State, during its ordinary session in Rumbek last Wednesday, summoned the Minister of Local Government and Law Enforcement Agency, Chol Kuotwel Manhom, over allegations of hut-tax misappropriation and rampant insecurity across the state.
Governor of the Central Bank of South Sudan, Dr. James Alic Garang, joined forces with the Governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Friday to mark a significant milestone in the banking sector.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir warned on Saturday that insistence on another extension of the transitional period by Western countries could lead to "violence."
Traders from Omdurman market in Khartoum City have initiated a project to rehabilitate and revive the market following the end of military operations in the area.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Child Protection Unit concluded a three-day training workshop on Friday for 51 members of the Unified Forces in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
Rania Haroun, founder of the Mumkin Initiative (It is Possible), has raised concerns about the potential shutdown of a communal kitchen in Al-Sahafa, Khartoum, due to a lack of financial support.
South Sudan announced emergency preparedness on Friday in anticipation of severe flooding, as water levels in Lake Victoria, a source of the Nile, have reached a record high.
Nearly 4,000 Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) supporters from eight counties, the municipalities of Torit and Kapoeta, and the Nimule town council have arrived in Juba. They are joining the Equatoria region in endorsing President Salva Kiir Mayardit as the SPLM flag bearer for the upcoming elections.
The Third National Youth Convention to elect the new leadership of the South Sudan National Youth Union started in Juba on Friday.
The communities along the Nile River, particularly in Bor, Jonglei State, have expressed deep concerns over the government's lack of proactive measures to mitigate the potential flood disaster.
More than 5,000 Sudanese refugees in a forest in the Amhara region have complained about deteriorating humanitarian conditions due to shortages of food and medicine.
Colin Thomas-Jensen, the USAID National Security Director, has called for the launch of direct dialogue among transitional government leaders, including President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, and all members of the presidency, to ensure genuine and peaceful elections.
At least one Sudanese migrant suffered a broken leg in a stampede at the immigration offices in Kufra, Libya when hundreds of migrants scrambled to obtain health cards, according to eyewitnesses.
In an exclusive interview, Professor Abednego Akok Kacuol, the chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), says he is not worried and will organize free and fair elections as he discusses the progress, challenges, and preparations for the upcoming elections.
The South Sudan Advocates Alliance, which has fielded candidates to vie for positions in the Bar Association elections, on Wednesday launched its manifesto after adopting it into its constitution.
At least 700 households lost their homes on Tuesday night to flash floods after torrential rainfall in Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
The Minister of General Education and Instruction, Awut Deng Acuil on Thursday warned learners across the country against engaging in examination malpractices known as ‘Machot.’
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday said the humanitarian situation for an estimated 800,000 civilians in Al Fasher in northern Darfur and surrounding areas has deteriorated following the outbreak of armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since 10 May 2024.
The chairperson of the Political Parties Council (PPC) reaffirmed on Thursday the decision to maintain the USD 75,000 registration fee for political parties.
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has expressed worry over the slow implementation of critical election tasks.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday warned of disruption of South Sudan’s elections which are scheduled by predicted flooding as water levels in Lake Victoria, a source of the Nile, reached a record high.
South Sudan on Thursday introduced Arabic language and Islamic Religious Education into the country’s educational system.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Party office in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State held a political update meeting on Monday and declared that its members are ready for the elections slated for December 2024.
A severe shortage of cash has hit Zalingei, the capital of Sudan’s Central Darfur State, forcing residents to resort to mobile money transactions.
A 32-year-old man who was convicted for defilement has been set free by a Mobile Court currently adjudicating cases in Unity State’s Mayom County after he was locked up in jail for three months, an official said.
Abdel Hafiz Mohammed Adam, a medical worker at a local clinic in Adré camp in eastern Chad, said Sudanese refugees in the camp face a dire health situation.
As South Sudan aims to improve food security through increased agricultural production, National Minister of Agriculture Josephine Lagu is appealing for 10 percent of the country’s budget to be allocated to the agricultural sector.
The head of the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate has said that press freedom was among the first casualties of the ongoing war which started on 15 April 2023.
A general practitioner at the For You Health Center revealed that they receive around 100 medical cases a day at Al-Malik Refugee Camp in Chad.
At least six people were reportedly killed and several others injured during clashes over a pregnant girl in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba, a youth leader said.
Operatives of the National Security Service’s (NSS) Internal Security Bureau (ISB) in Wau Town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Tuesday morning briefly detained the deputy chairperson of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Women’s Block in the state.
South Sudans President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday night relived two officials nominated by the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) in Warrap State and announced replacements.
The UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide has sounded an alarm on an impending genocide in Sudan, especially in the volatile Darfur Region.
A fire erupted on Monday at Al-Riqibat market, situated in the administrative unit of Samaha in the Bahr al-Arab locality, resulting in the destruction of around 14 commercial agencies and an estimated loss of millions of Sudanese pounds.
In Sudan’s Blue Nile State, the price of a loaf of bread has skyrocketed, with a 65-gram loaf now priced at 100 Sudanese pounds. Previously, three 40-gram loaves were sold for 200 pounds before the latest increase.
South Sudan`s Ministry of Finance and the Bank of South Sudan on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to officially join the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute (MEFMI) of Eastern and Southern Africa.
The Industrial Chamber in Sudan has revealed that more than 1.8 million workers and employees have been displaced from their jobs due to the ongoing war in the country. The industrial sector has suffered losses exceeding $50 million, with 90% of factories across the country ceasing operations.
The minister of finance and planning on Tuesday disclosed that his priority is to stabilize market prices before looking into paying salaries, even though civil servants have gone almost 8 months without pay.
At least three men were on Tuesday sentenced to various jail terms by the Mobile Court which started work in Unity State’s Mayom County on 15 March when the first team of investigators arrived in the county.
The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, during a briefing on Monday, said the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and other UN and non-UN partners over the weekend facilitated a post-migration conference between the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities in Abyei.
The National Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro, has denied reports published in the media and circulating on social media that the Government of South Sudan had taken a USD 12 billion loan from a Uninted Aran Emirates (UAE) based company.
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Medical personnel, especially midwives and nurses, in South Sudan have been urged to uphold professional ethics and standards when handling patients.
The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, during a briefing on Tuesday, said that UN peacekeepers aided a joint visit with state authorities to assess the humanitarian situation in Boeo Medina, Raja County in Western Equatoria State.
The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) has cautioned the public against falling prey to scam websites allegedly offering visa services to France for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games which will run from 26 July to 11 August.
The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs has invalidated the USD 75,000 registration fee requirement for political parties which was instituted by the Political Parties Council.
A chief and two farmers were on Friday killed by armed men in Heiban County’s Kumbor Payam in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, authorities said.
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), through the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), on Monday convened a three-day regional forum in South Sudan’s capital Juba to discuss the threatening impacts of climate change in the Greater Horn of Africa.
The lawyer of Pan African Law Chambers, currently defending the case of the detained former Juba mayor Kalisto Ladu, has written a letter to the UN human rights body, saying his client is being “continuously tortured."
Gai Machiek, a Nuer spiritual leader from Unity State’s Mayom County who has been domiciled in Twic County’s Ajak Kuach Payam in Warrap State, was at the weekend forcefully relocated to Panyok Payam in the southern part of the county.
The Unity State Ministry of Youth and Sports, with support from UNMISS’s Department of Communication and Public Information, organized a peace football tournament in Unity State’s Mayiendit County over the weekend.
The states of Khartoum and Al-Jazeera in Sudan are experiencing escalating military operations between the Sudan Armed Forces (RSF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Education authorities in Sudan's West Kordofan State announced on Sunday the commencement of the academic year across all education stages.
The local authorities in Jonglei State’s Nyirol County said they have released four politicians and elders who were detained for allegedly inciting a group of local youth to hold violent protests last week.
“If the sanctions imposed by the United States against leaders of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are intended to stop the war, protect civilians, or reduce displacement and war-related disasters, they are futile,” said Faisal Al-Zubair, a Sudanese political analyst.
Thousands of Sudan’s People Liberation Movement (SPLM) Party supporters on Monday converged at the party’s secretariat in Torit to validate their support for Salva Kiir’s candidature for the December 2024 elections.
At least four people have been reported killed in a clash between the SSPDF and suspected NAS forces in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State, on Sunday.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TLNL) postponed Monday’s session to discuss the speech delivered by President Salva Kiir during the opening of the parliament last month to Tuesday after ministers failed to turn up in the House.
National Prison Service of South Sudan (NPS) officials in Abyei Administrative Area on Monday said that a National Non-governmental Organization, Luluk Community Agency for Development (L.CAD), with financial support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), paid fines for the release of 17 inmates in Abyei Main Prison.
Local authorities in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State’s Aweil East County said two women lost their lives in a traffic accident between Aweil town and Aweil East County over the weekend.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has issued an unexpected decree sacking the governor of Unity state.
Juba`s First Grade County Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of a defamation case filed by the Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng Achuil to June.
Residents of the South Sudanese capital, Juba, have decried delays in the issuance of identity documents such as passports and nationality certificates by the government and demanded that the matter be resolved.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), with support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on Saturday concluded a two-day civil-military dialogue in Lainya County’s Bereka Boma in Central Equatoria State.
EU Ambassador to South Sudan Timo Olkkonen says another extension of the transitional government would be disappointing as it signals a failure to fulfill commitments made in the peace agreement and the roadmap.
The Directorate of Traffic Police has been hit by a massive scandal that involves corruption, forgery to supply vehicle number plates, and impersonation to get payment from the government.
The Chairman and Commander-in-Chief of the rebel outfit South Sudan People's Movement/Army (SSPM/A) has asked the mediators of the High-level Mediation for South Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya, to return his team from where they came because of an assassination attempt on him.
A section of civil society activists in Sudan’s West Kordofan State have been trained in psychological trauma support skills, a local organization reported.
Volunteer youths in the Um Dukhun locality in Sudan’s Central Darfur State have established an emergency room to assist the vulnerable segment of the community, an official said.
Some nine million acres of agricultural land are set to be cultivated to boost production and food security in Sudan’s South Darfur State, authorities have said.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi — once seen as a potential successor to 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — died after his helicopter crashed into trees in a mountainous northwestern region of the Islamic Republic on Sunday.
Healthcare workers at the Al-Himidiyah Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) Camp in Zalingei in Sudan’s Central Darfur State have revealed that between two to four children die of malnutrition daily.
The Artala area of the Mukjar locality in Sudan’s Central Darfur State has witnessed tribal tensions between the Salamat and Bani Halba tribes over the past week.
The 2008 SPLM National Convention was a harbinger of things to come, and it was a critical turning point in the political evolution of the SPLM as the ruling party. The 2008 Convention was the second SPLM Convention and the first since South Sudan gained its autonomy. Unfortunately, the convention did not happen.
The Sudanese Peace Mediation Committee has reported that the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) have agreed on the delivery of humanitarian aid to war-affected areas.
A medical official in Sudan’s River Nile State has reported a significant decline in the medical conditions at the state's dialysis centers due to a shortage of dialysis solutions and supplies.
Several UN agencies on Friday at a Geneva press briefing said they are concerned about the worsening state of affairs in Sudan occasioned by the war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which has been ongoing for a year now.
The Government of South Sudan is putting in place measures to safeguard the lives and properties of people amidst looming floods, Pal Mai Deng, the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation has said.
South Sudan`s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday night reshuffled officials in Warrap State, including a state advisor, ministers and two county commissioners
During a recent visit to a government-owned primary school in Juba, a group of tutors from Windle Trust International were very impressed with the joyous welcome by the head teacher. The tutors, hired to train teachers in literacy and numeracy, were on a joint tour to familiarize themselves with the locations of primary schools to which they were deployed.
Local authorities in Warrap State’s Tonj East County and Lake State’s Rumbek North County have said nine cattle keepers were killed on Thursday when fighting erupted in Angui cattle camp in Tonj East County.
Butcheries in Juba have announced an increase in the prices of beef, chevon (goat meat), and mutton, attributing the hike to inflation in the country and the constant depreciation of the South Sudanese Pound (SSP) against the U.S. Dollar.
Police in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have confirmed the killing of Brigadier Marko Chol Akuei from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in-Opposition (SPLA-IO).
Violent clashes renewed on Friday between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher.
The commencement of the South Sudan peace talks in Kenya represents a crucial milestone toward establishing lasting peace, according to the RJMEC head.
In his address ahead of the UN Civil Society Conference on Friday, Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concern about the escalating violence in Sudan, calling for immediate action from the international community.
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At the Gedaref Displacement Center in the Deim Al Noor neighbourhood of Gedaref State in eastern Sudan, several displaced individuals have voiced grievances about deteriorating humanitarian conditions, citing shortages of food and shelter materials.
The Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of South Sudan on Thursday said the people of South Sudan have not benefited from the proceeds from crude oil which is the country’s largest export.
Gola Boyoi Gola, the newly appointed chief administrator of Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Wednesday issued several decrees forming his government by appointing advisors, ministers, and county commissioners.
At least three people were shot dead and five others, including three children, an SSPDF soldier, and an elderly man, were injured in separate attacks in Jonglei State’s Duk County on Thursday, according to a local official.
The spokesperson of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Friday denied media reports that the House summoned the chairperson of the Government’s Economic Cluster, Vice President James Wani Igga, to answer questions about hunger in Unity State’s Mayom County and across South Sudan.
South Sudan’s ceasefire monitoring body revealed that there is a new recruitment and training by the SSPDF in Aweil town, in violation of the peace agreement.
The University of Al-Daein in Sudan’s East Darfur State and the University of Juba in South Sudan have signed a five-year renewable cooperation protocol.
Peace talks between the transitional government and some members of the holdout group will be launched this evening in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The authorities in Jonglei State and neighboring Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Thursday said they have identified abductees from each other’s jurisdictions and that efforts are underway to reunite them with their families.
The Juba County Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a defamation case against Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak, an activist and government critic, has been adjourned for another 20 days.
The Juba First Grade County Court on Wednesday started hearing a defamation case filed by the Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng Achuil.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend work and withdraw staff from Madani Teaching Hospital, the only functional hospital for the hundreds of thousands of people in dire need of medical assistance in the capital of Sudan’s Al Jazeerah State.
An activist on Wednesday said the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) should be held accountable for the death of seven suspects who were locked up in a shipping container and later died as a result of suffocation in the Warrap State capital Kuajok on Sunday night.
Attacks by the RSF and allied militias in West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees, Human Rights Watch said.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Central Darfur State sector last arrested a photojournalist, Abdulaziz Mahmoud, who is popularly known as Arjaa, who works for Sudan National Television, sources told Radio Tamazuj.
Seven people who were detained by the SSPDF and locked in a shipping container died of suffocation on Monday night in Kuajok Hospital.
More than 41 relatives of suspected armed criminals from the Thuyic section of Maleng-agok Payam have been arrested over the revenge killing of two people from the Gony and Dhiei sections of Cuei-cok Payam in Lakes State’s Rumbek East County.
Rebel leader Gen. Stephen Buay Rolnyang has accepted an invitation to participate in the peace negotiations between the Government of South Sudan and holdout groups in Kenya, according to documents reviewed by Radio Tamazuj.
Members of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday expressed grave distress over the skyrocketing prices of necessities including water, fuel, flour, and other essential items in South Sudan’s capital Juba.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has directed the committee tasked with scrutinizing the National Security Service (NSS) Act (Amendment) Bill to finalize its work and ensure it is tabled for final reading, an official has revealed.
The Government of the People`s Republic of China, through its embassy in Juba, on Monday handed over the newly constructed Clement Mboro Bridge to the Government of South Sudan.
The Al-Hisahisa Resistance Committees in Sudan’s Al Jazeera State on Sunday accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing new violations and killing several citizens in villages in the Tabat area.
In a candid interview, seasoned journalist Mohammed Al-Shinnawy shares his experiences amidst Sudan’s turmoil.
Chaos erupted in South Sudan’s Parliament on Monday after a lawmaker demanded the removal of Clerk to Parliament Makuac Makuc Ngong and his deputy.
Peace talks between the government and some holdout groups will begin on May 10 in Nairobi, according to the SSUF/A, one of the opposition groups led by former army chief Gen. Paul Malong.
A women’s activist from the Murrayat area in West Darfur State’s Krienk locality has revealed that women have undertaken menial tasks to survive which exposes them to rape and assault.
The Mayor of Wau Municipal Council in Western Bahr el Ghazal State said traders have temporally closed their shops out of fear that they might incur losses as students of the University of Bahr el Ghazal took to the streets to protest food shortages on Monday.
Omda Abdullah Mohammed Ishaq said the current security situation in the Murraya area of Kreinik Locality, West Darfur State, remains dire.
The Speaker of the Abyei Special Administrative Area has stated that there is no authority requiring the Abyei Legislative Assembly to cross-check the government’s performance regarding the utilization of public funds.
At least two soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in a fight between the SSPDF and SPLA-IO forces at Mirnya Payam in Mayendit County of Unity State on Friday, an SPLA-IO commander said.
Ahmed Ibrahim, an agriculture official in Beleil locality, north-east of South Darfur capital Nyala, complained about obstacles hindering preparations for the upcoming agricultural season in the area.
Ahmed Adam Abdulrahman, Commissioner of Humanitarian Aid in the area of Kreinek, located some 60 km east of the capital of West Darfur El Geneina, disclosed that citizens are resorting to eating locusts and oil residue to survive. Tragically, many, especially children, have succumbed to starvation, with numerous others bedridden in the nutrition department of Kreinik Hospital.
A blaze erupted two days ago in the Khirban (A) area, located to the north of Al-Fashir city, the capital of North Darfur State.
Following an appeal from the United Nations and Western embassies in Juba, South Sudan’s government removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside.
The inter-party dialogue on the election process among South Sudanese political parties is still ongoing, a senior SPLM-IO official has said.
Aly-Khan Rajani, the Ambassador of Canada to South Sudan, delivered a stirring address on World Press Freedom Day in Juba on Friday, emphasizing the crucial role of media in advancing democracy in the country.
Jemma Nunu Kumba, Speaker of the National Legislative Assembly, issued a compelling call for an immediate halt to the bloodshed in Tambura County, Western Equatoria.
Farhan Haq, the Deputy Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, on Friday addressed recent developments in Sudan, highlighting concerns over the killing of aid workers and escalating humanitarian needs.
The authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Thursday vowed to arrest all the perpetrators of last week’s attack in the neighboring Kapoeta East County of Eastern Equatoria State and said that all abductees will be recovered and reunited with their families.
The newly appointed members of the Jonglei state cabinet and new county commissioners on Friday took the oath of office in the presence of Governor Denay Jock Chagor in Bor town.
A 20-year-old woman is nursing multiple gunshot injuries after her husband opened fire on her following a family dispute in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State, a relative has said.
Dr. Riek Gai Kok, a former health minister, has been appointed as the chairperson of the Greater Bahr el Ghazal peace committee.
The National Council of Ministers in their meeting on Friday resolved to form a committee to oversee the demolition of illegal structures erected on school and hospital lands and to reclaim such land.
South Sudan gained her independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011 with common values applicable to all citizens. The foundational values of South Sudan as a sovereign state are justice, equality, respect for human dignity and advancement of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The South Sudanese Government authorities have the duty to exercise their governmental powers through its democratic and representative institutions established by the Constitution.
The National Minister of Environment has called for urgent humanitarian intervention in Eastern Equatoria State’s Kapoeta East County in the aftermath of a bloody cattle raid by armed Murle youths.
The SPLM-N appointed governor of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains region, Saeed Kajo Kumi, has appointed Juma Idriss as the new director of the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (SRRA), replacing Hammed Musa.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that two of its drivers were killed by gunmen on Thursday in South Darfur, Sudan. Three other ICRC staff were injured.
A two-day child protection conference kicked off in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State’s Aweil town on Thursday to address violations and abuses against children such as forced and early marriages and sexual exploitation.
As the globe commemorates World Press Freedom Day on Friday 3 May, the U.S. Embassy in Juba has called on the Government of South Sudan to guarantee civic space and press freedom.
The Civil Society Network in Eastern Equatoria State (CSNEES) has declared its stand and recommended that a census be done and security arrangements fully implemented before any peaceful and democratic elections can be held.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Thursday night sacked Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony.
The National Health Insurance Fund in the Sudan’s Blue Nile State has unveiled a health insurance cover that would benefit returnees from the neighboring Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Education and Guidance on Tuesday dispatched examination forms for Sudan School Certificate Examinations candidates to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State.
At least one person was killed and five children abducted by unknown gunmen in the Tel area of Jonglei State’s Nyirol County on Tuesday, local authorities said.
A hunter was killed by armed bandits suspected to have come from Warrap State’s Tonj South County in Cueibet County’s Abiriu Payam in Lakes State on Wednesday.
The authorities in Sudan’s River Nile State forcefully ejected displaced persons from sheltering houses on allegations of misconduct on Monday.
A local leader of the National Umma Party, Muhammad Orabi, reported that elements of the Sudanese Army’s Military Intelligence in Singa in Sudan’s Sinnar State arrested Ahmed Omar Al-Nujumi from his home on Monday and took him to an undisclosed location.
The locality of Shiaeria in East Darfur State has received hundreds of displaced people fleeing clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and some Darfur movements on one side and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the other in North Darfur State’s Al Fasher town.
The Emergency Room in South Khartoum has voiced fears about the dire situation and suffering of kidney patients at the dialysis center at Bashayer Hospital in the Sudanese capital.
The Acting Governor of North Darfur State, Al-Hafiz Bakheet, on Tuesday inspected the operations and services at the Civil Registry and Passport Administration during his visit to the North Darfur State Police Headquarters.
The Government of Eastern Equatoria on Wednesday confirmed that 90 women and children were abducted, 32 people killed and 22 others injured in last week’s deadly attack and cattle raid by armed youths from Greater Pibor in the Kauto area of Easter Equatoria State’s Kapoeta East County.
The Commissioner of Nagero County in Western Equatoria State has confirmed that more than 10,000 people have arrived in his county after ethnic violence erupted last week involving the section of Balanda and Azande in the neighboring Tombura County.
The authorities of Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), in an unprecedented move, on Tuesday acknowledged that from their jurisdiction carried out a massive raid in Eastern Equatoria State’s Kapoeta East County last week.
The Sudanese and South Sudanese governments have decided to track and repatriate all looted cars within their borders, Major General Khalil Pasha Sairin, Sudanese Interior Minister, has revealed.
Major General Albino Utho Maraino, Police Commissioner of Western Equatoria State, reported a tragic incident involving a police inspector from Ezo County. The inspector sustained a gunshot wound to his leg, while his teenage daughter was shot and killed by a soldier from the Wildlife department.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has ordered the reopening of schools in El Gazira State starting next week.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit announced a reshuffle of officials in the Jonglei State cabinet, advisors, and county commissioners on Tuesday.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it has treated over 100 war-wounded patients – including 11 children, many with gunshot wounds – at South Hospital, El Fasher, over the past two weeks as fighting escalates around El Fasher town, North Darfur State.
Farmers in Yambio town, Western Equatoria State, have expressed frustration over decreased revenue from grain sales, attributing it to the UN World Food Program’s (WFP) decision to engage intermediary companies instead of directly purchasing from farmers. Despite these challenges, farmers acknowledge increased agricultural production in recent years due to support from the WFP’s Smallholder Agriculture Market Support (SAMS) project.
Sudanese refugees at the Upper Nile University camp in Renk city, Upper Nile State, South Sudan, voiced their dissatisfaction with humanitarian organizations for their failure to provide assistance.
Authorities in schools across Western Equatoria State said they have noted a significant decrease in early marriage and school dropout rates, particularly among girls facing pregnancies.
A delegation from the National Elections Commission, led by Fabu Abac Ajang, the Commission’s Civic and Voting Education officer, arrived in Wau, the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, on Monday evening.
The lawyer of Pan African Law Chamber, currently suing the government at the East African court over the detention of former Juba mayor Kalisto Ladu, said security personnel have intimidated him and asked him to drop the case.
During a tour conducted by Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday morning at El-Daein market, the capital of East Darfur State, a significant spike in fuel prices was observed. The price of a 4-liter gallon of gasoline surged to 15,000 Sudanese pounds, up from 12,000 pounds.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday extended a mandate for the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for one year.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has deployed additional peacekeepers and launched urgent patrols to two conflict hotspots of Jonglei and Kapoeta East County, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, Nicholas Haysom has said.
A high-level delegation from the National Elections Commission (NEC) is in Torit, the capital of Eastern Equatoria State, to meet with state executives, assembly members, political parties, civil society organizations, women and youth organizations.
The leadership of the South Sudan National Movement for Change (SSNMC), a party under the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), has accused Vice-President for Service Cluster Hussein Abdelbagi Akol and Presidential Affairs Minister Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro of depriving them of their positions.
The Toposa and Lopit communities in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State have agreed to live in peace and stop all forms of violence, including raids.
An extensive fire tore through the main cold chain facility for the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Bor, resulting in the irrevocable loss of thousands of vital vaccines.
Parliament has resolved to summon the Petroleum minister, Puot Kang, Environment minister, Josephine Napwon and Health minister Yolanda Awel Deng over the continued pollution in the oil-producing states.
The Sudanese Embassy in Uganda has been accused of declining to renew the passports of a section of Sudanese nationals based on their tribal alienation.
A celebration was held in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) headquarters of Pibor town on Monday to welcome a decision by Gen. David Yau Yau to rejoin the SPLM party led by President Salva Kiir.
Several Sudanese political, civil society and social groups have condemned an airstrike by the Sudanese Air Force last Thursday night in the Mellit area of North Darfur State.
The reappearance in a South Sudan court of a former refugee who had been forcibly disappeared more than a year ago points to the urgent need to reform the National Security Service (NSS), Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.
A three-day workshop on the role of media in countering hate speech has concluded in Al-Fashir, North Darfur over the weekend, organizers have said.
South Sudan’s Ministry for General Education and Instruction on Monday announced that the National Examination Council will commence marking of South Sudan Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) examination scripts, four months after the conclusion of the examination.
South Sudanese and Sudanese continue to enjoy and reaffirm timeless relations and deep fraternal ties despite their separation into different countries, Sultan Deng Bol, the head of South Sudanese chiefs in the Sudan’s Blue Nile Region has said.
One cattle raider was killed, a local injured, and more than 200 head of cattle raided in Jonglei State’s Duk County on Sunday.
A program officer at Al-Mansoura Emergency Room in the Um-Baddah locality of Omdurman in Sudan, Yusuf Rambo, has disclosed that three people died of starvation in the area last week.
The Soba Al-mahatta Emergency Room in Khartoum reported on Saturday that 19 people died and 30 others were injured last Wednesday when two mortar shells hit a viewing club in the Soba Al-mahatta area.
Residents of Port Sudan have expressed frustration over frequent power outages lasting up to 6 hours a day, with some areas experiencing even longer interruptions.
A local official said that the much-awaited construction of the 40-kilometre Longechuk Road in Upper Nile State has resumed after a record 12-year lull.
A company run by the distant relative of Abu Dhabi ruling family has agreed to lend 12 billion euros ($12.9 billion) to South Sudan in exchange for oil, according to a report.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Party has come out strongly to dismiss reports circulating on social media that President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar have agreed to postpone the December elections.
The Strategic Defense and Security Review Board (SDSR-B) on Thursday concluded a five-day workshop that completed the validation process of the five long-awaited security reform documents.
Pornpun Jib Rabiltassaporn, the Save the Children Country Director in South Sudan, has said all stakeholders must marshal efforts to save, protect, and ensure that children get an education, grow, survive, and thrive.
At least three people were killed and 650 head of cattle raided during an attack on a cattle camp in Pamai town in Jonglei State’s Uror County on Wednesday, authorities said.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Babanusa who fled to Al-Meiram in Sudan’s Western Kordofan State have complained about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the sheltering houses in Al-Meiram
A South Sudanese man aged 22 is among three men who have been arrested in connection with a boat crossing of the English Channel which separates Southern England and Northern France that led to the deaths of five people, including a young girl.
The leaders of and dignitaries affiliated with the Mahamid Rizeigat Arab tribe of Sudan’s Darfur region on Thursday unequivocally announced their rejection of the stance of Sheikh Musa Hilal, the tribe's leader, who on Monday declared his support for the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).
At least 28 journalists on Wednesday concluded a two-day training in elections reporting in the Eastern Equatoria State capital Torit.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit, who is also the chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party, issued a directive on Wednesday urging party members to ready themselves for the upcoming elections.
The international community should mobilize to address the disaster unfolding “before our eyes,” Tirana Hassan, executive director of Human Rights Watch, and the leaders of over 50 international human rights and humanitarian organizations said on Wednesday.
Central Bank Governor Johnny Ohisa Damian’s recent remarks before the national parliament on Monday where he contemplated the closure of underperforming commercial banks has received support from a prominent economist.
Renk County in Upper Nile State has witnessed a slight drop in commodity prices, with sugar and maize flour becoming more affordable, according to a statement made by a local official.
A South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) soldier in Lakes State has been apprehended after he shot and wounded his pregnant wife, leaving her with three bullet wounds.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Wednesday recommended the instant removal of the acting mayor of Juba City Council (JCC) for assaulting a female street vendor.
The Authorities in Nagero County in Western Equatoria State said they are searching for the culprit who murdered the county’s education director last week.
A group of Western embassies in South Sudan has called upon the Government of South Sudan to increase its contribution to the humanitarian effort in the country.
The United Nation’s (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, in a statement on Wednesday, said she is appalled by the killing of dozens of civilians in an attack on a crowded market in southern Khartoum on Sunday, 10 September 2023.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) moved the Anticorruption Commission 2009 Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 from the second reading to the third reading stage during a session held on Tuesday.
The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) has issued a directive to the Necessary Unified Forces who were passed out to report to training centers within seven days for verification and deployment.
In a distressing revelation, the Minister of Health in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, Dr. Vincent Taban, has reported the tragic deaths of at least four children due to malnutrition-related cases in Wau.
The Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly (RTNLA) announced on Tuesday that it would adjourn the questioning session for ministers and the governor of Central Equatoria State, who were summoned to address the issue of street children in the capital, Juba.
In Jonglei state, northeastern South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are rushing four critically ill patients by ambulance boat to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak. Among the people on the boat, Nya Sibet Mar is holding her two-year-old daughter, Nya Thor, who is suffering from severe malaria.
The Central Equatoria State Chamber of Commerce, a mercantile union, on Tuesday said it is ready to sue the caretaker mayor of Juba City Council (JCC) for assaulting a street vendor.
Radio Tamazuj has seen a press release by the Bank of South Sudan’s (BOSS) Communication and Public Relations Department titled “Bank of South Sudan refutes allegations on currency change” dated 11 September 2023.
A South Sudanese civil society activist, Merekaje Lorna, over the weekend, urged the unity government to implement legislative reforms as stipulated in the 2018 revitalized peace agreement.
The traffic police department in Yambio, Western Equatoria State, on Tuesday, launched an operation to crack down on motorcycles and vehicles with no number plates.
A lawmaker at the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has demanded that the Government of South Sudan liaise with Sudan officials to find out how many South Sudanese citizens have been killed since the crisis in Sudan erupted in April.
The Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) on Monday threatened to shut down commercial banks that are performing poorly.
The Warrap State minister of information on Monday revealed that the construction of the terminal building at Kuajok Airport commenced last Friday and is expected to be completed in two months.
A bolt of lightning struck and killed 24 head of cattle in Leer County’s Juong Payam in Unity State in the wee hours of Monday morning.
South Sudan’s plans to assume control of oil fields from foreign companies, whose contracts expire in 2027, cannot feasibly be realized due to lack of financing and capabilities, Bloomberg has cited the newly independent country’s national planning body as saying during the recently concluded National Economic Conference in Juba, according to the authoritative energy news site Oilprice.com.
South Sudan’s Ambassador to Uganda, Simon Juach Deng, has revealed that the embassy has negotiated with the Government of Uganda to waive and exempt South Sudanese from paying USD 100 for a student’s pass annually.
The chairperson of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly’s (TNLA) Information Committee has said that the Disarmament Bill is yet to reach the House.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday passed and pushed the Banking and Other Financial Institutions Bill 2023 from the second to the third reading with all the recommendations and observations.
South Sudan’s Minister of Finance and Planning over the weekend called on the National Revenue Authority (NRA) to ensure effective tax collection and the removal of multiple roadblocks across the country.
A momentous occasion unfolded in Morobo County as the community welcomed the launch of Iyete 87.7 FM Morobo, a community radio project spearheaded by the Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation (CEPO).
Sudanese activists and a medical group say at least 43 people were killed in Khartoum on Sunday in a drone attack on an open market south of the capital, Khartoum, the Associated Press and other news agencies reported.
At least 350 individuals with eye cataracts and 100 trachoma patients will receive free surgical treatment at Bentiu State Hospital in Unity State.
A series of rallies to disseminate the 2018 revitalized peace agreement and shun recurring intercommunal violence is ongoing in remote parts of Jonglei State cut off from the state capital, Bor.
The kin of a 75-year-old man who was shot and killed by unknown people in Ezo County, Western Equatoria State, are demanding justice.
Torrential rains and resultant flash floods have rendered the road connecting Unity State capital, Bentiu, to the three southern counties of Mayiendit, Leer, and Koch unusable, hindering movement of people and transportation of goods.
Ethiopia on Sunday announced that it has completed filling its Grand Renaissance Dam which has been the source of a long-running dispute with Sudan and Egypt.
Over 5,940 returnees in Juong Payam in Leer County, Unity State, are currently facing a severe shortage of clean drinking water.
The vice president in charge of the economic cluster has chastised senior environment ministry officials for going against a cabinet resolution approving the dredging and clearance of the Naam River in Unity State.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Saturday vowed to fully implement the resolutions and recommendations adopted at the just concluded first-ever National Economic Conference.
The family of a young man shot dead by an SSPDF officer attached to the National Security Service (NSS) in Bor, Jonglei State earlier last week, is demanding justice.
Uganda’s Ambassador to South Sudan, Brigadier General Ronnie Balya, presented a comprehensive nine-point plan on behalf of the Ugandan government. The objective of this plan is to assist South Sudan in rejuvenating its struggling economy.
The recently appointed chairperson of the Chamber of Commerce in Lakes State, Malok Marial Kuctiel, has vowed to revitalize agribusinesses and foster improved collaboration between traders and the state government.
Daniel Bromley, a distinguished economist and former Anderson-Bascom Professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States, has criticized the National Economic Conference for its lack of realism in its discussions.
South Sudan’s Minister of Finance has announced the establishment of the Agricultural and Irrigation Company and Minerals Development Corporation.
In a significant milestone, the Episcopal University of South Sudan celebrated the installation of a new Vice-Chancellor and the official launch of its School of Law at the Bishop Gwynne Campus in Juba on Friday.
First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar revealed that the government is actively preparing to deploy the Unified Forces required to carry out disarmament as soon as the parliament passes the Disarmament of Civil Population Bill 2023.
The governments of South Sudan and Japan on Friday signed a grant agreement of 2,930,000 Japanese Yuan for the cleaning and expansion of the Juba River Port.
The Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC) is a vital continental health agency established by the African Union to support public health initiatives of Member States.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) residing within the confines of the Bentiu IDP camp in Unity State have expressed their frustration and taken to the streets in protest of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) decision to suspend food aid without providing them with adequate prior notice.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Riek Machar on Thursday launched a three-day leadership workshop for its senior members.
Nearly 4,000 South Sudanese who have recently arrived from the Darfur region of Sudan to Raja County in Western Bahr el Ghazal State are facing a dire shortage of food, clean drinking water, shelter, and medication. The humanitarian situation in Boro Madina, where they are currently seeking refuge, is rapidly deteriorating.
Central Bank Governor Johnny Ohisa Damian on Thursday proposed a change in the South Sudanese currency to facilitate the government’s access to money stashed in households.
In a thrilling display of legal prowess, Starford International University emerged victorious in the fifth annual Inter-University moot court competition, designed to prepare the next generation of lawyers for the rigours of litigation.
Police in the border town of Nimule in Eastern Equatoria State called on their counterparts in the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) to promptly arrest a fellow soldier who stands accused of rape.
A senior United Nations official on Thursday called on South Sudan to establish a comprehensive legislative framework to address the issue of conflict-related sexual violence. The call for action encompassed various aspects, from ensuring the protection of victims and witnesses to facilitating access to justice for those affected by these heinous crimes.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has appointed Mr Ramadan Mohamed Abdallah Goc as the new deputy foreign minister.
In a tragic incident in Locharok village, Imehejek Administrative Area of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State, two farmers were killed, and one was injured during an ambush by unidentified armed men.
Central Equatoria State Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Investment, Viana Kakuli Agrey, and Cabinet Affairs Minister, Wayi Godwill, faced questions in the state parliament on Wednesday regarding a proposal to exchange land for vehicles.
In a collaborative effort between Peace Canal, the Peace Building Opportunity, and the Ministry of Peace Building in Lakes State, a pre-cattle migration dialogue was recently held in Maleng-Agok Payam of Rumbek East County, Lakes State.
Authorities in Nyirol County, located in Jonglei State, have commenced the registration of returnees in an effort to streamline service provision and facilitate their resettlement. The registration process, which began on August 15th, is expected to continue until all returnees have been registered.
Sudan’s military leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on late Wednesday issued a decree to dissolve the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
A major with the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) has been arrested by the police for shooting dead a civilian in Bor town of Jonglei State on Monday, police said.
The Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Court made a decision on Wednesday to suspend the ongoing court hearing concerning Mary Akuot Agany, a minor who suffered intentional blindness at the hands of her father in Abiook village, Tonj South County, Warrap State.
The United States has imposed sanctions on the deputy leaders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Wednesday for alleged murders and rights abuses.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly on Wednesday pushed the National Security Service Act 2014 (Amendment) Bill 2023 from the second to the third reading.
The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, has expressed concern at “the ongoing levels of identity-based violence in a number of states in Sudan,” calling for “urgent action to halt the increasing risk of the spectre of genocide and related atrocity crimes.”
Concerned women in Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal State are raising alarms about the increasing number of underage girls residing in hotels throughout the town.
Armed youth from Mayom County of Unity State launched an attack on Apuk Payam of Gogrial East County of Warrap State earlier this week, killing at least five people and injuring three others, a local official said.
The man at the helm of South Sudan’s National Elections Commission (NEC), Prof. Abednego Akok Kacuol, has said not holding a national population census and not demarcating constituency boundaries will not affect the conduct and results of elections slated for December 2024. He said his body will simply use the old constituency boundaries and take at least six months to register voters countrywide.
The number of internal displacement in Sudan has nearly doubled since conflict started in April, the UN's migration agency said on Tuesday, with millions now internally displaced.
Lawmakers at the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Tuesday raised serious concerns about being sidelined from the ongoing National Economic Conference and of lack of recognition during several national events.
The chairperson of the information committee at the national parliament, John Agany, who also doubles and the assembly’s spokesperson, on Tuesday disclosed that the National Elections Act 2012 (Amendments) Bill 2023 will be tabled soon.
The Revitalized Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has raised concern over the little progress related to making the permanent constitution and activating electoral processes, saying all have stalled.
Two former executives at a Swedish oil firm face accusations of complicity in war crimes in present-day South Sudan. The trial of the two former executives began on Monday.
U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan has said that twelve years after independence, and 18 years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the people of South Sudan have yet to see the prosperity they anticipated would follow.
A crucial vaccination campaign against measles and polio, targeting children aged between five months and fifteen years of age, has been launched in Unity State’s Rubkona County.
The opposition SPLA-IO under First Vice President Riek Machar on Monday received eight army officers who defected from Gen. Johnson Olony’s SPLA-IO Kit-Gwang faction, an armed group technically integrated into the army.
The authorities in Lakes State have confirmed an attack by a hyena which resulted in the death of two people and severe injury of two others on Sunday.
The National Ministry of Health in partnership with UNICEF supplied a large consignment of assorted essential medicines to Pariang Hospital in Ruweng Administrative Area over the weekend after eight months.
A man identified as Paul Lauro Lawrence, 34, took his own life by hanging on Sunday in Wau town, Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
The defense team of Agany Kut Achuil who deliberately blinded his teenage daughter on Monday asked the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Court which is hearing the case in Juba to refer it to a customary court in Tonj, Warrap State.
The spokesperson of the South Sudan Prison Service has said they are simply following judicial orders by holding Ayii Duang Ayii who is the proprietor of South Supreme Airlines.
In a historic move aimed at diversifying the country’s economy, South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning officially kicked off the nation’s first-ever National Economic Conference on Monday.
The speaker of the Central Equatoria State Legislative Assembly on Monday adjourned a session meant to question the state’s finance and cabinet affairs ministers to Wednesday 6 September.
Health authorities in Nyirol County in Jonglei State have detected at least 3 suspected cases of Guinea worm diseases since last month.
Africa is responsible for only a fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions but is suffering disproportionately from climate change.
President Salva Kiir on Monday directed the new minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Foreign Minister James Pitia Morgan to address the financial challenges faced by foreign missions, a statement from the office of the president said.
Over 1.8 million people are expected to flee war-ravaged Sudan and $1 billion is needed to meet their needs, the UN refugee agency said on Monday.
The committee set by the National Ministry of Higher Education to resolve the impasse between students and the administration of the University of Bahr el Ghazal has said the institution should reopen and students should pay the new tuition fee structure proposed by the management.
The spokesperson of the Western Equatoria State Chamber of Commerce has demanded a harsh penalty for the two SSPDF soldiers who were arrested last week in connection with the killing of a Yambio businessman if they are found guilty.
The Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Monday morning arrived in Juba to discuss with President Salva Kiir the crisis in Sudan, a statement from the office of the president said.
Over 1014 returnees in the Rubkuai area of Mayendit County in Unity State are currently facing a severe shortage of clean drinking water.
The ongoing war in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has claimed the lives of 35 civilians and wounded thousands in the area south of Khartoum during the month of August, the spokesperson of a local aid group said.
The Juba Local Football Association (JLFA) over the weekend during an extraordinary general assembly meeting held at the MTC Training Center in Juba, elected a new steering committee.
The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) have deployed at Manyang checkpoint on the border of Western Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap states after insecurity flared up in the area.
The road linking Renk County to Melut County has been cut off by floods caused by Asher stream making the movement of people and goods difficult, a local official said.
Children and families living in near-siege conditions in Kadugli in Sudan’s South Kordofan State have run out of food supplies, according to Save the Children staff based in the town.
Residents of Leer County of Unity State on Thursday celebrated the reopening of Leer 88.0 FM and Mary John Primary School, which were renovated with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Sheja Salam project.
The leadership of Twic East Youth Association in Juba on Saturday distributed reusable sanitary pads, soap, and gumboots to about 270 women, girls and farmers at the Mangala IDP camp in Central Equatoria State.
Health workers in Western Equatoria State on Thursday called for a concerted effort to encourage mothers to exclusively breastfeed their newborns for the first six months of their lives.
The Gender-based Violence (GBV) Court in Juba on Friday sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for raping and impregnating a 15-year-old girl in Terekeka County in Central Equatoria State in January.
The Catholic Church in Sudan and South Sudan said it is set to celebrate 39 years of the establishment of the Eucharistic Congress and the golden jubilee of the church hierarchy in the two countries.
The newly appointed minister for information and telecommunications in Eastern Equatoria State has promised to ensure that there is freedom of expression and press freedom so that citizens can enjoy the dividends of democracy.
The Gender-based Violence (GBV) Court in Juba on Friday adjourned the hearing of the case of Agany Kut Achuil who deliberately blinded his teenage daughter in April to Monday next week.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization on Thursday urged humanitarian organizations to urgently scale up their response to ease the difficulties faced by people fleeing conflict from Sudan to Upper Nile State in South Sudan.
Amanga Pinyi Udom, a determined 35-year-old restaurant owner hailing from Kuajiena Payam in Jur River County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, is making an earnest appeal to well-wishers for support in propelling her business to new heights.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are currently witnessing the dire living conditions in refugee settlements in Adré, eastern Chad, where people face severe shortages of food, water, sanitation, shelter, and medical care, a statement said.
Amongping Payam FC emerged the triumphant champions in a thrilling showdown during the Inter-Payam Peace Tournament, securing their victory after a nail-biting penalty shootout against Dr. Nyot FC of Malek Payam.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has sacked acting foreign minister Deng Dau Deng and appointed a new foreign minister.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday night relived and appointed officials including, state ministers, county commissioners, and state independent commissions, and revoked the appointment of lawmakers in four states.
Three cattle owners were on Monday arrested by the commissioner of Rumbek Central County in Lakes State for allegedly grazing their cattle in village farms.
Heavy floods from the Khor Achier stream in Renk County in Upper Nile State have destroyed homes leaving many people displaced, a local official and residents said.
A prominent trader who doubles as an executive chief was on Wednesday murdered in Yambio County in Western Equatoria State.
The leaders of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) community at the Bentiu camp in Unity State have voiced their trepidation following the suspension of food aid by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP).
A group of traditional ‘mystic healers’ from Northern Bahr el Ghazal State last week formally formed and launched a union known as the Traditional Spiritual Spear Masters Group (TSSMG) which they say is to promote peace and security.
Local and international organizations, in collaboration with the Western Bahr el Ghazal State government, convened a roundtable discussion on housing and land rights in Wau on Wednesday.
The Eastern Equatoria State Minister of Finance, Peter Lokuju Lotirmoi, on Monday, presented the eagerly awaited tax rate and schedule for the upcoming 2023/2024 financial year to the state legislative assembly.
The inhabitants of Juba County’s Lobonok Payam in Central Equatoria State have called on authorities to withdraw the army brigade deployed in their area.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday said more than 5,000 South Sudanese nationals displaced by conflict have been traced and reunited with their families since the country’s independence in 2011.
Transport Minister Madut Biar has expressed his intention to shift the responsibility of car licensing from the Directorate of Traffic under the Ministry of Interior to his ministry.
The leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In-Opposition (SPM-IO) in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Tuesday took to arguing on local radio stations soon after the party disclosed a partial reshuffle which affected high-ranking members in the state.
More than 3,500 children, who are among the returnees who sought refuge in the Nyaruop port area of Koch County in Unity State, have received crucial vaccinations during a focused immunization campaign.
As South Sudan struggles to fix its ailing economy, plans are underway to diversify from being oil-dependent.
Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power, the BBC has reported.
The Joint Military Ceasefire Commission (JMCC) on Tuesday revealed that it has established 17 cantonment sites to accommodate the second batch of unified forces from the ranks of the armed opposition forces.
Two legislators who represent Eastern Equatoria State in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) have sounded an alarm over hunger in the Imehejek Administrative Area of Lopa-Lafon County which they said has forced over 90 households to flee the area.
The president of Nasir Sports Club of Juba in Central Equatoria State has resigned from the club citing disappointment with the suspension of sports activities by the Juba Local Football Association.
A bolt of lightning on Tuesday afternoon struck and killed an SSPDF soldier who doubled as a military medical worker identified as Amarbak Aguer, 55, at the Sherikat Military Barracks in Torit Town, Eastern Equatoria State.
Sudan’s military leader, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has undertaken to continue military operations and dismissed rumors of a deal to end the ongoing war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, on Tuesday made an appeal for USD one billion from the international community and South Sudan to cater for the humanitarian needs of refugees and returnees fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
Small-scale farmers in Western Bahr el Ghazal State say the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has lifted them out of poverty through training and the production and preservation of quality seeds.
Sudan's military leader Gen Abdel Fattah Al Burhan arrived in Egypt on Tuesday, about a week after he left the capital Khartoum, where his troops have been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April.
A group of 35 members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) have defected to the SPLM party headed by President Salva Kiir in Unity State.
A member of parliament representing Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Monday called on the authorities to ban illicit alcohol.
A member of parliament representing Unity State’s Mayom County in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has tasked the house to summon the governor of Warrap State to answer questions about the killing of people from Unity State in his jurisdiction.
Local authorities in Yei River County have said that the Kaya-Oraba border point on the South Sudan-Uganda border has reopened after six years.
Two children were killed on Monday after a freak blast of lightning struck them during a heavy downpour in Mvolo County’s Yeri Payam in Western Equatoria State.
A driver working for the African Resource Corporation (ARC) Limited which is constructing the Juba-Bahr el Ghazal Highway, last week intentionally rammed into and killed a site manager identified as Besbele Tesfaya Lesese and his deputy, Daniel Amana in Lakes State.
Central Equatoria State boasts of enormous resources such as natural forests, wildlife, fertile land, and valuable human capital. But the level of development it has attained so far raises questions on issues around transparency, corruption, and mismanagement of public resources. Allegations of theft of public funds, illegal land sale and acquisition, exploitation of forests for personal gain by top government officials, continued human rights violations by individual elements of SSPDF sparked critical public debate in the media in recent months leading to a significant decline in public opinion, distrust, and loss of confidence in government and its ability to stabilize peace and security, deliver basic public services, and to uphold the rule of law.
Parliament has summoned the national finance minister and the Western Equatoria state governor over unpaid salary arrears for civil servants in the defunct states in Western Equatoria.
Al-Darajat Football Club of Wau in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Sunday evening celebrated at the club’s headquarters in Wau to thank former coach Garang Magon.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday summoned five ministers over the increasing number of street children.
The umbrella of the Other Political Parties (OPP) on Friday unanimously endorsed Peter Mayen Majongdit as their presidential flag bearer for the upcoming 2024 general election.
At least 4 people were killed and 44 others injured following the detonation of a hand grenade by a veteran in Tharkueng market in Jur River County in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Sunday
The leader of a group of cattle raiders in Tonj North County in Warrap State was last week in killed by the army in the Marial-Lou area.
People in Eastern Equatoria State’s Magwi County who have recently returned from refugee camps in neighboring Uganda are in dire need of humanitarian food assistance among other basic services
Yolanda Awel Deng Juach, the minister of health, late last week visited Malakal town in Upper Nile State to assess the general health situation of returnees and internally displaced persons.
Local authorities in Yirol East County have confirmed that 5 people have been killed and 2 others wounded during a cattle raid and revenge attack between Panyijar and Yirol East counties of Lakes and Unity states.
A new international airport is being built in the Akon Village of Gogrial West County, Warrap State, a local official and a company manager said.
At some point, one feels that the Judiciary of South Sudan and the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs deserve appreciation. The institutions have been transparently recruiting employees, especially Judges and Legal Counsels. If you have criticism over the title of this opinion, send it to the address provided. The two public institutions have set up good examples for other institutions to emulate. To get on when it comes to public job recruitment, they often advertise vacant posts, vet the applications of the candidates, shortlist the candidates, and interview them both in written and oral. Other sisterly ministries, commissions and departments might have been doing so when recruiting their employees. That is quite amazing.
A renowned civil society member has decried the South Sudanese government's delay in the reconstitution of the Political Parties Council.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared winner of the presidential elections.
Passengers were on Thursday stripped naked and robbed by armed men along the Torit-Kapoeta road in Eastern Equatoria State, eyewitnesses and officials said.
At least three people were killed in an attack carried out by an armed group on the residence of a spiritual leader in Mayom County, Unity State, last Wednesday.
The Central Equatoria State Legislative Assembly has said that those who grabbed lands must vacate as soon as possible.
The war in Sudan is fueling a humanitarian emergency of epic proportions, a senior UN relief official has said.
The South Sudan government on Friday warned advertisement and printing companies across the country against printing the wrong version of the national flag.
The umbrella group within the Other Political Parties (OPP) has gathered in Yambio town of Western Equatoria State to endorse its flagbearer for the elections slated to take place in December 2024.
More than 300 individuals have undergone free eye surgery for trachoma and cataract at the Leer Community Centre and Mary John Primary School in Leer County of Unity State.
The Center for Emergency and Development Support (CEDS), in collaboration with the Lakes State Ministry of Housing, supported by UNICEF through the Netherlands Embassy in Juba, has inaugurated the third phase of a sustainable WASH project.
A two-day workshop that brought together civil society activists and Jonglei state legislative assembly members concluded in Bor town on Thursday, with the two sides agreeing to cooperate to ensure effective service delivery.
The ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Sudan, Amb. Tobias Eichner is winding up his two-year tour of duty come September.
The police in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State said they registered 364 criminal cases with theft, physical assault, and adultery leading among other crimes across the state.
Over 114 returnees who recently arrived from Sudan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in Mayendit County in Unity State.
A police constable deployed in Yirol East County in Lakes State on Tuesday took his own life in Malek Payam after he was allegedly accused of committing adultery.
The ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Sudan, Amb. Tobias Eichner is winding up his two-year tour of duty come September.
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Sudan to Benelux countries and the European Union (EU) last weekend emphasized the importance of unity among the South Sudanese diaspora.
The police in Lakes State have confirmed that a motorcycle rider and his two women passengers died when they collided with a Landcruiser pickup truck between Door and Butagok payams in Awerial County in Lakes State on Tuesday.
Two students who were arrested after the police stormed their hostel at the University of Bahr el Ghazal in Wau on Wednesday have been released.
The chairperson of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in Opposition (SPLM-IO) in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, who is also the state governor, on Tuesday, suspended two executive members of the interim women's league office in the state.
Health officials in Eastern Equatoria State have confirmed an out outbreak of jiggers in the contested Iswore Boma between Ikotos and Magwi counties.
The Sudanese Teachers Committee has threatened to take industrial action over the delayed salaries of the school teachers.
Introduction Faced with the country's huge currency depreciation against major foreign currencies, the government of South Sudan has tried to make a pitch to foreign investors to invest in the country in order to alleviate the economic situation being faced by the population. To make matters worse, Sudan's warring parties have placed South Sudan on a tita totter, putting enormous pressure on the country to rethink its options for transporting its crude oil.
The chief of the Wagner Russian mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is believed to have been killed in a plane crash, Russian state media reported Wednesday.
Puok Both Baluang is the Acting Press Secretary in the Office of the First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar.
The Rwonyi Boma community in Yei River County and the SSPDF have formally ratified a locally driven agreement aimed at bolstering civil-military relations in the area.
The employees of the Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Ministry of Agriculture are calling for the removal of their minister after protests over pay cuts and the suspension of colleagues.
The upper house of parliament, the Council of States, which summoned Western Equatoria State Governor Gen. Alfred Futuyo Karaba has postponed the meeting to a date yet to be mentioned.
The Wau Vocational Training Center (WVTC) is grappling with a shortage of essential training materials and tools, the principal says.
Central Equatoria State, known for its bountiful natural forests and diverse ecosystems, is facing an alarming crisis that threatens its natural habitat. Yei and Morobo Counties, which lie within this plush expanse, are witnessing the rapid and unsustainable cutting of trees, resulting in a devastating loss of biodiversity, disruption in ecosystems, and grave consequences for the local communities.
The Network for Civil Society Organizations in Western Equatoria State has said the multiplicity of checkpoints along the Juba -Yambio road has led to the skyrocketing of prices of essential goods in the State.
A member of the Transitional National Legislative (TNLA) has raised a complaint about cabinet ministers not attending parliamentary sittings even when they are summoned by the house.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Tuesday referred the Wildlife Conservation and Protected Areas Bill 2023 to the Specialized Committee on Wildlife Conservation and Tourism and the Committee for Justice and Legislation which were tasked to present it to the house in two weeks.
South Sudan’s Information Minister, Michael Makuei, has reiterated the transitional government’s commitment to hold free and fair elections in December 2024.
The upper house of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, the Council of State, has summoned Western Equatoria State Governor Gen. Alfred Futuyo Karaba to Juba to answer queries regarding insecurity.
The commissioner of Renk County in Upper Nile State, Kak Padiet Kak, has revealed that the members of the oil revenue committee have stolen more than USD 47 million from the 3 percent crude oil sale proceeds allocated to the county.
Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore on Monday donated SSP 8 million, 17 Motorbikes, and 8 drums of petrol to the SPLM party secretariat in Eastern Equatoria State.
A man identified as Owere Masmino, 30, who was tending to his goats was over the weekend shot dead by suspected rustlers in Torit County’s Hiyala Payam in Eastern Equatoria State, local officials said.
Rebecca Joshua Okwachi, the SPLM chief whip in the national parliament, on Monday, denounced what she called the misuse of South Sudan’s national flag by using officials and sections of the public.
The Transitional Legislative Assembly in Unity State on Monday passed the Emolument Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 into law opening the way for state parliamentarians to get their salaries.
Information Minister Michael Makuei on Monday said the cabinet is in the process of setting up a technical committee to follow up on the implementation of the Russia-Africa summit held recently.
The people of South Sudan have not exercised the right to choose their leaders since the referendum that secured independence from Sudan in 2011. Instead, they have suffered through cycles of violent conflict that have prevented the democratic transfer of power.
National Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng Achuil on Monday arrived Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State to preside over a conference to improve and transform the education system in the state.
In a major stride to ensure universal access to water and sanitation, the governments of South Sudan and Malawi on Monday announced the launch of Presidential Compacts on Water and Sanitation.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday passed the National Elections Act 2012 (Amendment) Bill 2023 from the second to the third reading.
The police leadership on Monday assured South Sudanese that police are adequately prepared to discharge their duties before, during and after elections.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party has started registering its members in Ulang County in Upper Nile State in preparation for the 2024 elections.
Salaam Football Club of Bor in Jonglei State has announced its withdrawal from participation in the upcoming Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League citing financial difficulties.
The National Ministry of General Education and Instruction on Friday concluded a three-day monitor and evaluation training for 60 headteachers and supervisors in the Warrap State capital, Kuajok.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's long-troubled Darfur region has left massive casualties, according to a local official.
Engineer Kenyatta Benjamin Warille has been the Executive Director of the South Sudan Roads Authority (SSRA) since its inception in 2011.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday inaugurated a modern storied office building in Rumbek in Lakes State.
Prof. Jok Madut Jok is a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in the United States of America and a renowned analyst on matters in South Sudan.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) is set to resume holding its annual media awards event later this year after a three-year hiatus due to financial constraints, a Sunday press statement said.
Following the outbreak of the highly contagious viral measles disease in late July, a measles vaccination campaign targeting 42,997 children is underway in Jonglei State’s Ayod County.
A prominent businesswoman in Yambio town in Western Equatoria State, Shiham Seid, died on Friday after being involved in a motorcycle accident as she was going to her home on Friday.
Prof. Jok Madut Jok is a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University and a renowned political analyst in South Sudan.
The South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (NBS) on Friday concluded a workshop on food safety standards in the East Africa region attended by representatives from the Bureau of Standards of Kenya, Tanzania, and Burundi.
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said South Sudan tops the list of most dangerous countries for aid workers in the world, and the humanitarian crisis deepens amid mounting needs, access constraints, and lack of funding.
Over 17 participants including journalists, members of civil society organizations, and secondary school students attended a one-day capacity-building training in combating disinformation and misinformation in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, on Friday.
The Unity State Legislative Assembly on Thursday resolved to summon the state’s minister of finance and planning to answer questions about the 3 percent proceeds from the sale of crude oil allocated to the state.
Ongoing hostilities in and around Kadugli town in Sudan’s South Kordofan State have led to the targeting of a UN helicopter on August 10, a UN Mission said.
Dr. Peter Biar Ajak, a former child soldier and renowned critic of President Salva Kiir's government, recently formed a new political party, the Revive South Sudan Party (RSSP).
Thomas Kuol Kulang, a senior member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), said Thursday that he abandoned his position as the party’s acting secretary-general for Ayod County in Jonglei State and joined the opposition SPLM-IO, citing corruption within the SPLM.
The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Thursday, paid a one-day visit to Rumbek town of Lakes State to encourage peace and unity in the area.
Security forces have forcefully evicted students from the University of Bahr el Ghazal girl’s hostel. The incident unfolded on Thursday as security personnel entered the hostel premises and ordered the students to vacate immediately.
Market prices for commodities in Bor town of Jonglei State have slightly decreased since the beginning of this month, local residents said.
A swarm of desert locusts has descended upon and destroyed crops in Baliet country in Upper Nile State, according to locals.
The European Union (EU) Thursday announced assistance to South Sudan with 3 million euros for the general elections slated to take place in December 2024.
The Luo community of Aweil Center County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State has announced the expulsion of Fallata cattle keepers from their area, explaining that the decision was made to protect the local economy and resources from devastation.
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has revealed that it will spend about USD 1 million to organize the upcoming National Economic Conference set to take place from 4 to 8 September.
Officials at Wau Central Prison, in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, have announced the immediate lifting of a three-week suspension on family visits for inmates.
Dr. Peter Biar Ajak, a former child soldier and renowned critic of President Salva Kiir, recently formed a new political party, the Revive South Sudan Party (RSSP).
Participants who recently completed a three-day training program focused on agronomics and Gender Based Violence (GBV) awareness, organized by Plan International, are calling for increased access to water resources to facilitate efficient irrigation for their vegetable gardens.
The Deputy Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, Malik Agar, announced on Tuesday a detailed roadmap aimed at resolving the persistent conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces “RSF,” while concurrently laying the groundwork for the nation’s resurgence through an inclusive political process.
The University of Juba, one of the public universities in South Sudan, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday launched Innovation Pod (UniPod).
The local authorities in Wangkei Payam in Unity State’s Mayom County have apprehended three suspects in connection with an attack in the area on Monday.
At least 127 individuals have undergone free eye surgery for trachoma and cataracts at the Bentiu Internally Displaced People’s camp in Unity State.
An 18-year-old boy identified as Martin Toby died and five others including a driver were injured after their vehicle overturned in Torit Town in Eastern Equatoria State on Monday.
The recently passed budget that saw a 400 percent salary increment for civil servants and the combined armed forces has sparked mixed reactions from civil servants across the country.
The Girls Education South Sudan (GESS) program opened a window of hope for vulnerable girls who would otherwise be out of school or even prematurely married off as underage brides.
The mayor of Torit Municipal Council on Tuesday banned the selling and collection of metal scrap in residential areas of Torit town in Eastern Equatoria State.
South Sudan’s Minister of Information and Communication, Michael Makuei Lueth, said the government arbitrated the crisis between the leaders of the Especial Church of South Sudan (ECSS) in Bor, Jonglei State, to save lives.
The chairperson of the South Sudan National Students’ Union (SSNSU) is receiving treatment at a hospital in Juba after being involved in a vehicular accident on Sunday evening.
Students at the University of Bahr el Ghazal on Tuesday staged protests over the latest tuition fees hike and called on the institution’s administration to reverse the decision.
The army has said about 4,000 assorted weapons have been recovered from civilians in Central Equatoria State’s Terekeka County in an ongoing peaceful disarmament campaign.
The Government of Japan and the World Food Program (WFP) have signed a USD 3.7 million agreement to provide life-saving emergency food assistance and to feed learners in schools in South Sudan
Sudan’s security forces on Sunday prevented the ‘No to Oppression against Women’ initiative from organizing a symposium in Gezira State calling for an end to the ongoing war in the country.
Crude exports by South Sudan have climbed to their highest level in almost two years despite an ongoing war between Sudan’s government forces and a paramilitary group that erupted in April, the authoritative energy news site OILPRICE.COM has said.
Renk County in Upper Nile State, South Sudan, is grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis as more than 150,000 returnees, including refugees, are in urgent need of aid.
The United States Departments of State, Labor, and Commerce on Monday issued a Business Advisory on South Sudan which cautioned American citizens to undertake due diligence before doing business in South Sudan.
At least 30 female journalists drawn from over eight states of South Sudan converged in Juba under the auspices of the Female Journalists Network (FJN) to share their personal stories and the challenges they face in the line of duty.
The Sudanese refugees encamped living in Aweil West County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Monday raised an alarm about food and drug shortages at the Wedwil Refugee Camp.
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry in collaboration with UNDP and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) on Monday launched the South Sudan National Climate Early Warning System.
A civil society activist was on Monday acquitted of impersonation charges by a High Court in the Jonglei State capital, Bor, following a yearlong trial.
Inhabitants of Malek Payam in Rumbek Central County, Lakes State, who have voluntarily returned to their villages have received a water yard financed by the Netherlands Embassy through UNICEF and built by the Center for Emergency Development Support (CEDS).
A 15-year-old boy identified as John Okulang was killed on Sunday when a heavy goods truck lost control and overturned on its side crashing him to death on Sunday in Torit town Eastern Equatoria State.
In the heart of Jonglei State in South Sudan, the completion of the new asphalt Juba-Bor Highway has become a symbol of hope for jobless youth as it has expedited and eased transportation and ushered in new opportunities, particularly in the form of the now flourishing fish business.
The Chamber of Commerce in Western Equatoria State last week suspended the operations of Better Future Health Living Company Ltd (BFLH) for not being certified by the state health ministry.
The office of South Sudanese First Lady Mary Ayen Mayardit and the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State teamed up over the weekend to distribute humanitarian aid to returnees who fled the war in Sudan.
At least 14 teachers graduated from the Maridi National Teachers Training Institute (MNTTI) in Western Equatoria State last Friday and were awarded Certificates in Primary Education following a two-year training program.
A health official in Unity State over the weekend confirmed 42 new cases of measles deaths among children aged 5-10, bringing the total death toll to 73 since July.
Educators and concerned community leaders in Yei River County in Central Equatoria State have called upon local authorities to regulate sports betting and gambling to stop minors from wagering.
Victoria Bullen stands tall in her fraternity, being the first woman porter, commonly referred to as ‘blocker,’ in the Western Equatoria State capital Yambio, in a profession that is considered a male bastion. The mother of six who took up the work 15 years ago says she does the heavy lifting to educate and feed her children.
The Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is expected in Juba on Monday 14 August for a four-day working visit to South Sudan.
The legislators representing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) should come back to their senses and return to the National Legislative Assembly, John Agany Deng, the assembly’s spokesperson has said.
In a significant move, Sudan’s Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday the cancellation of final examinations for schools across states grappling with the prevailing conflict in the nation. The decision encompasses primary, intermediate, and secondary education levels.
In a decisive move to combat environmental degradation, the Ministry of Environment has unveiled an initiative that will see the imposition of environmental impact fees on all plastic bottles.
The Ministry of Health in Lakes State, in partnership with health partners, has organized a workshop aimed at facilitating the distribution of mosquito nets across the state after a scheduled Training of Trainers (TOT) session set for the coming week.
In a significant turn of events, the 2023/2024 fiscal year budget was passed Friday despite strong opposition from the SPLM-IO.
Lawmakers representing the opposition SPLM-IO walked out of Parliament on Friday as the house started the third reading of this year's budget.
David De Dau, Chairperson of the sub-committee of the Great Lakes Region in the Reconstituted National Legislative Assembly, said that the regional body has resolved to ban illegal gold mining in Africa.
The transitional government has dispatched a convoy of over 100 trucks loaded with essential food supplies to aid the Unified Forces stationed at various training centres across the country.
Regional ministers convened in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, on Monday and gave their resounding endorsement for the continued involvement of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in facilitating the resolution of the ongoing conflict in Sudan, according to South Sudan’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Deng Dau Deng.
Members of the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly are expressing growing concern over the delay in delivering two ambulances and initiating construction of the 60-kilometre tarmac road, both of which were pledged by President Salva Kiir.
Local authorities in Wangkei Payam in Mayom County of Unity State have taken a suspect into custody following an incident involving the fatal shooting of an individual identified as Zien Dhoal Chuol.
The interim chairperson the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has said that many of the milestones in the peace agreement are yet to be achieved with barely 16 months to the elections.
The governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal State has called on state parliamentarians and the citizenry of the state to take up agriculture for self-reliance and poverty eradication.
The members of the executive are in a deadlock with a section of parliamentarians over the increase of civil servants' salaries by 400 percent as proposed in the 2023/2014 fiscal budget.
The Deputy Special Representative for South Sudan and Deputy Head of the United Nations Mission has said the conditions for South Sudan to hold elections are not in place yet.
Students at the University of Bahr el Ghazal in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, are protesting the increment of tuition fees which the university’s administration justifies as a necessary adjustment to factor in prevailing market prices.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday donated ten desktop computers to Ernesto Makor, a small computer business owner who runs Rmaciel Computer Center in Kuajok town in Warrap State.
Government should hold all responsible officials to account and establish Hybrid Court, Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) Africa Division researcher, Nyagoah Tut Pur, writes.
In a deeply concerning and distressing series of events, Greater Yei County has been marred by an escalating wave of violence targeting boda-boda riders, leaving communities shaken and families devastated.
A comprehensive three-day induction training workshop for Central Equatoria State lawmakers, jointly organized by the National Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is currently underway in the capital city of Juba.
A male Sudanese refugee was on Tuesday night stabbed to death after an altercation at a camp in the Wedwil area of Aweil West County in Northern Bahr el State, officials said.
President Salva Kiir on Wednesday replaced the Undersecretary in the Ministry of East African Affairs in a presidential decree aired on state-run media.
The Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS) on Wednesday condemned attacks on the church by angry youths and chiefs at the watch of the government.
The governor of Western Equatoria State on 3 August issued an order suspending the county commissioner of Nzara County.
The Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly (RTNLA) on Wednesday adjourned the third reading of the 2023/2024 fiscal budget due to unclear reasons.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) and the UNMISS field office in Rumbek on Monday handed over the newly renovated Akon-Buoi Cultural Centre to the Lakes State government.
More than 1,480 South Sudanese citizens who fled fighting in Sudan to the Ruweng Administrative Area in northern South Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, local officials said.
A South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) soldier has been arrested by the police in Koch County’s Jaak Payam in Unity State for injuring his wife with a gunshot.
The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) on Monday launched a thirty-day capacity-building training program for local coaches at the Juba Technical Secondary School on Monday.
Samuel Garang Dut, a prominent civil activist, has emerged from ten months of confinement within the military intelligence detention cells in Juba, with an unwavering determination to press on in his struggle for civil rights and governmental accountability.
The World Bank is pausing approval for new public finance projects in Uganda over the country's adoption earlier this year of a widely criticized bill criminalizing same-sex conduct, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday morning.
The Government of South Sudan on Tuesday disclosed plans to approve 6 months of compulsory maternity leave for all working mothers across the country.
On 31 July 2023, Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, one of the three leaders of the Nasir Declaration, and the chairman of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), made a hasty return to the capital Juba, after three years of self-imposed exile.
The worsening economic conditions in South Sudan can be attributed to a lack of coherent economic planning and policies, according to a prominent South Sudanese economist.
Hundreds of eager residents gathered at Torit’s Freedom Square to witness the inauguration of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) in Torit town, Eastern Equatoria state.
At least 27 women parliamentarians from Eastern Equatoria State gathered last week for a one-day training session focused on the Revitalized Agreement on the resolution of conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), the road map, and the Constitutional-making process.
A police officer has sustained injuries following a shootout on Sunday in Wau town, arising from what seems to be a domestic dispute involving a member of the national security forces.
The Community Emergency Development Support (CEDS), in collaboration with the State Ministry of Housing, Land, and Public Utilities in Lakes State, on Monday organized a vital one-day workshop focused on the payment of water tariffs.
Force Commander for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Maj. Gen. Mohan Subramanian has arrived in Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State, to conduct an evaluation of the political and security landscape prevailing across the state.
At least four South Sudanese nationals living in the Al-Haj Yusuf refugee camp on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum have been injured during an airstrike by the Sudanese army amid the ongoing fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces.
South Sudan’s newly appointed Finance Minister, Bak Barnaba Chol, has announced intentions to raise taxes on luxury vehicles and high-end products, including V8 cars.
South Sudan's parliament has temporarily suspended debate on the 2023/2024 fiscal year budget due to recent changes in the Ministry of Finance, the parliament’s spokesperson said.
The Sudanese Trade Unions Front (STUF) has taken a decisive step by lodging a formal complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO), strongly asserting that the government of Sudan has failed to uphold its responsibility of paying civil servants’ salaries since the inception of the conflict on April 15.
Police authorities have taken into custody a 25-year-old man identified as Albano on suspicion of murdering a pastor in the capital of Eastern Equatoria State, Torit.
The incidence of Tuberculosis (TB) has witnessed a concerning surge among the local population of Ayod County, Jonglei State, since the commencement of this year.
A distressing incident unfolded at Rumbek State Hospital, where a mother reportedly dumped her newborn baby girl into a pit latrine and subsequently fled the premises.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit has taken a significant step by appointing a seasoned technical advisor to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management.
The Council of Ministers, in its regular meeting on Friday, agreed to form a committee to tackle South Sudan`s position on the issue of the usage of the Nile Water.
Around 200 individuals are eagerly anticipating free eye surgeries at the Bentiu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Unity State, South Sudan, scheduled for next week.
Three dedicated teachers were involved in a road accident in Rumbek, with one of them currently in critical condition, according to health officials.
The Kator High Court in Juba has upheld the decision of the Malakia County Court in a May appeal, reaffirming an order that requires South Supreme Airlines to provide compensation to the families of the victims who lost their lives in the tragic plane crash that occurred in Pieri town, Uror County, Jonglei State, in 2021.
Warrap State’s health authorities have announced a measles outbreak within the returnees’ transit camp situated in the heart of Kuajok headquarters, besides rising cases of anthrax in Gogrial West County.
A cargo vessel transporting essential relief supplies from Juba met with an unfortunate incident as it sank in the River Nile, just north of Malakal town.
The leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), Dr. Lam Akol, has indicated his willingness to engage in bilateral talks with President Salva Kiir and other parties concerning the upcoming elections.
Dr. Bak Barnaba Chol has taken oath as South Sudan’s new finance minister a day after he was appointed in a presidential decree.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has said that the third reading of the 2023/24 fiscal year budget is set to take place next Monday.
Ruweng Administrative Area continues to grapple with the formidable challenge of malaria, with Pariang Hospital at the epicentre of concern, as revealed by a senior health official.
Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today US$5 million in new funding for the education in emergencies response in war-torn Sudan.
A dispute over the lack of rain turned deadly in Iloli Village of Torit County, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan. Ofuho Ewot, 28, stands accused of killing a man identified as Allam and injuring a woman during the altercation. The injured woman is currently undergoing emergency treatment at Torit State Hospital.
Dr. Nyot FC, representing Malek Payam, secured an impressive 2-0 win against Amongpiny Payam FC during an intense inter-Payam football competition organized by the Rumbek Central County Youth Association.
Tensions have escalated between two families at a cattle camp in Rumbek East County as a result of a disturbing incident. Police authorities in Lakes State have confirmed that a girl from one family, who was found to be pregnant, had allegedly been impregnated by a man from the other family. The situation took a violent turn when the girl’s brother shot and critically wounded the man suspected of impregnating his sister.
More than 1,300 people have returned to Manyo County in Upper Nile State after they fled the ongoing fighting in Sudan, a humanitarian affairs official said.
In a recent development, President Salva Kiir has taken the decision to remove the Minister of Finance and Planning from office, naming a successor shortly thereafter.
Dr. Lam Akol, leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), says the parties to the agreement need to open the door to a compromise on key pending tasks ahead of elections.
South Sudan’s government has lifted the ban imposed on the UN-owned radio station after previously being ordered not to cover events.
A mobile court was established in Malakal, Upper Nile State, on Wednesday to ensure access to justice for the local communities in the state.
The South Sudan Football Association SSFA on July 29th convened in Aweil, Northern Bahr El Ghazal State, for its 8th Ordinary General Assembly.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) is sounding the alarm over a staggering $400 million funding shortfall for humanitarian needs in South Sudan over the next six months.
Duk County dwellers have a reason to smile following a move by the UN Mission (UNMISS) to hand over a new police post to the authorities to help improve security in the area.
South Sudan government said on Monday that it has removed all illegal checkpoints across the country in an attempt to facilitate humanitarian aid delivery to vulnerable communities.
Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) held a press conference today and addressed a number of issues based on their assessment of the current situation in the country.
Chapter Six of the Political Parties Act, 2012 (Amendment) Act, 2023 talks about the promotion of transparency and the resolution of disputes.
Senior UN officials have issued a stark warning about the impending food crisis in South Sudan, emphasizing that millions of people in the country will suffer from hunger if urgent action is not taken.
In a recent incident in Bor town, Jonglei State, a confrontation within the Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS) resulted in the arrest of 27 congregants by local law enforcement. The clash centred around a disagreement over church leadership on Sunday.
The Catholic Diocese of Tombura Yambio is reeling from a daring robbery and theft that occurred at the Curia, Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio (CDTY), resulting in a substantial amount of cash being stolen.
The Governor of Central Equatoria State, Emmanuel Adil Anthony, announced on Tuesday the commencement of the construction for the Custom-Rock City-Gudele One Road.
On Tuesday, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the United Nations Women jointly launched a youth financing facility project aimed at improving the lives of youth and women entrepreneurs in South Sudan.
The revered and long-serving paramount chief Mario Waya Ucuir Dut of Western Bahr el Ghazal State has passed away at the venerable age of 93.
Upper Nile State Governor James Odhok Oyai has fired and replaced the mayor of Malakal city council and appointed a replacement.
An outbreak of measles has been declared in Ayod County of Jonglei State, with more than 34 cases, including four deaths since last month, health authorities said.
South Sudan and the UN Mission (UNMISS) have agreed to end the bickering over the registration of the UN-owned radio after previously being ordered not to cover events.
Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore has removed the heads of the SPLM party in Kapoeta South and East Counties.
Santino Manut Akec, who previously served as a commissioner of Jur River County in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, has now ventured into farmin
Bentiu Hospital in Unity State is grappling with a severe shortage of essential drugs, leaving patients in a dire situation, as reported by the local health department.
Chapter VI of the Political Parties Act, 2012 (Amendment) Act, 2023 talks about financial provisions aimed at regulating the funding and utilization of resources by political parties.
Chapter Four of the Political Parties Act, 2012 (Amendment) Act, 2023 talks about the establishment of political parties and restrictions on public officials’ involvement in parties, among others.
Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, the leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), arrived in the capital Juba on Monday morning.
The Torit municipal council said security forces are investigating the killing of a woman using a military bayonet knife at the Iluhum residential area of Torit town on Saturday.
Leer County, located in Unity State, is currently grappling with a severe drug shortage, as reported by the county health department.
A tragic accident along the Magwi-Abara road last Thursday resulted in the death of a bodaboda rider and left another in critical condition. The collision occurred when two motorcycles collided, causing severe injuries to both riders.
Abiemnom County of Ruweng Administrative Area is currently facing a dire humanitarian situation as more than 300 South Sudanese returnees urgently seek assistance after their arrival from Sudan.
Opposition politician and leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, will return to the country on Monday, a party official said.
Security forces in Rumbek East County of Lakes State said they had killed a young man regarded one as one of the most "notorious criminals" in the county.
Youth in Rumbek Central County recently wrapped up a transformative two-day training program focused on gender equality and equity.
South Sudan joined the global observance of World Population Day in Juba, marking the annual event dedicated to highlighting the significance of population and development issues
About 3.3 million children in South Sudan are currently living in households affected by food insecurity, according to a new report released by the South Sudan Food Security and Livelihood Cluster.
In a joint effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) and the state Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries, a crucial 10-day animal health vaccination campaign has been launched in Rumbek Central and Rumbek North counties.
At least nine suspects were arrested on Thursday in connection with the shooting incident targeting a humanitarian convoy in Oronyo village, Torit County, Eastern Equatoria State.
The cabinet has insisted that the elections will take place as planned in December 2024, saying delays in the implementation of security arrangements will not affect the polls.
The authorities of Warrap State have reported an incident in a Kuajok returnee temporary camp, where four children have lost their lives due to deteriorating health conditions.
A tragic accident involving Africa Resources Company (ARC) truck and a passenger business vehicle travelling from Juba to the Bahr el Ghazal region has resulted in the loss of three lives and left ten others injured in Lakes State.
In an effort to address the recent outbreak that resulted in the deaths of over 5,000 cattle since April, delegates from four communities – Lou, Fallata, Rizeigat, and Dinka Malual – have gathered for a two-day peace conference in Aweil Center County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Friday issued a decree firing the Deputy Governor of Warrap State and appointed a replacement.
The Commissioner of Wau County is unable to discharge his duties at the county headquarters for more than a year after his appointment due to an unresolved dispute.
Thousands of South Sudanese returnees are in dire need of humanitarian aid in Ayod County in Jonglei State, weeks after their arrival from Sudan.
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Kornelio Kon Ngu, has expressed doubts about the ability of political parties to implement pending critical tasks of the agreement before elections.
A National Security Service officer, only identified as Ayiinatikii, was hanged to death by an angry mob in Budi Eastern of Equatoria State on Wednesday.
South Sudan MPs will now start enjoying subsidised meals with the opening of a restaurant in Parliament.
South Sudan’s National Legislative Assembly, in a move aimed at addressing concerns over the management of oil revenues, has directed the Minister of Finance and Planning, Dier Tong Ngor, to suspend the transfers of the 3% oil share to Unity state until Community Development Committees (CDCs) are established. The lack of CDCs in Unity State has raised uncertainty about the proper allocation and utilization of the 3% oil share.
The government in Yei River County has expressed its strong condemnation following the tragic killing of a boda-boda rider in the Sanjasiri suburb of Yei River County.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly has given its unanimous approval to increase salaries and wages for civil servants and the army in the FY2023/2024 budget.
South Sudan’s parliament should revise the pending National Security Service Amendment Bill to bring an end to the agency’s arbitrary arrests and other abusive practices, two rights groups said today.
President Salva Kiir has issued a decree firing the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Professor Julia Aker Duany.
The Minister of Roads and Bridges in Western Equatoria State has been faulted for selling government land in the state capital Yambio.
The United States envoy to South Sudan has called on South Sudan’s leaders to ensure accountability, transparency and uphold human rights for a conducive environment for the development of the country.
The Central Equatoria State Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved a budget of SSP 19.1 billion for the 2023/24 financial year.
The humanitarian community in South Sudan is calling for urgent funding to ensure continued support for onward transportation for people fleeing the Sudan conflict to South Sudan.
The Political Parties Act, 2012 (Amendment) Act, 2023 stipulates in Chapter 3 that there will be Political Parties Council which shall among other things, register, monitor, regulate, and de-register political parties.
At least 31,471 who have been going hungry in Eastern Equatoria State’s Kapoeta North County on Monday started receiving food assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP).
The Eastern Equatoria State education ministry has said that it has instituted an investigation into why eleven candidates, four females, and seven males, failed to sit the 2022/2023 South Sudan Certificate of Secondary Education (SSCSE) examinations.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil on Tuesday handed over 13 tractors to the 6 counties of the state to be used in boosting food production.
The American Corner at the University of Juba marks its 10-year anniversary this month.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation (CEPO) last week started distributing solar-powered radios to each of the five payams of Yei River County in Central Equatoria State.
World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday received 40.5 metric tons of high-energy biscuits from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support people who are fleeing fighting in Sudan.
Intercommunal clashes over the weekend erupted in Greater Pibor Administrative Area’s (GPAA) Nanaam area, according to the area’s information minister.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, on 24 June 2022, assented to the Political Parties Act, 2012 (Amendment) Act, 2022.
Edmund Yakani, a renowned South Sudanese civil society activist, attended a consultative meeting of stakeholders for the establishment of the Political Parties Council.
In a recent development aimed at resolving a long-standing dispute between the Pari and Lopit communities in Lafon County, Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore has issued an order declaring Imehejek as an administrative area.
In a groundbreaking initiative to enhance food security within Wau Central Prison, the Administration of the facility in Western Bahr el Ghazal State has embraced farming, allowing them to produce sufficient food to feed over 800 inmates.
An act of arson has left the historic St. Emmanuel parish church in ruins in the Akuac residential area of Rumbek Central County, Lakes State.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly has put forth a condition for reinstating Juol Nhomngeck, an SPLM-IO MP, after he was suspended from parliamentary sessions.
The leadership of Christ Church Nakasongola on Sunday accused the speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) of using security agencies to forcefully grab the church’s land.
Fangak County in Jonglei State is facing a dire humanitarian situation as more than 3,000 households, comprising over 10,000 individuals, continue to suffer without adequate food and shelter.
Oyet Nathaniel, the deputy chairman of the opposition SPLM-IO, says the party will be ready for elections if critical pending tasks of the peace agreement are implemented.
The SPLM-IO parliamentary caucus said the 2023/2024 budget has failed to address the issues of peace implementation and funding for the upcoming elections.
In a tournament final marred by controversy and violence, the Pibor football team has been declared the champion of the Aweil Martyrs Football Tournament.
A new political party, the People’s United Front (PUF), made its debut in Juba on Saturday, calling for the conduct of general elections in December 2024.
The Revenue Authority in Warrap State has issued an order aimed at curbing illegal cattle trading by implementing a ban on the sale of cows, goats, and sheep without a pass permit.
Excitement filled the air as secondary school students in Yambio County, Western Equatoria State, welcomed the establishment of journalism clubs in their schools.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Friday handed over a fully renovated primary school to the host community of Watdalelo Payam in Jur River County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) said the lack of financial support is a significant factor behind the national football team’s unsatisfactory performance.
Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore has taken action to address the ongoing conflict over the Isore Boma area between Magwi and Ikotos County.
Sudanese refugees in the Gorom settlement camp on the Juba-Yei road have issued an ultimatum, expressing deep concern over the lack of essential services such as food, water, and medicine.
The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) conducted a massive destruction of more than 10,000 expired food items collected from various markets across Juba on Thursday.
Margret Oliver is Head Chief of Pageri Payam of Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State. Elected by the community, Margret has been in the post for nearly a year.
Local vendors in Maridi County, Western Equatoria State, have expressed their gratitude for a recent five-day business skills training conducted by the Maridi branch of the South Sudan Red Cross.
Dorothy Drabuga, a human rights defender and the Executive Director of the Women Foundation for Humanity Organization, is calling on the government to fully implement the Maputo Protocol to safeguard the rights of women and girls in South Sudan.
Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin is a veteran South Sudanese opposition politician and leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM).
The speaker of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) legislative assembly Judi Jonglei Boyoris has died.
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs says it seeks more funding to respond to the influx of returnees and refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) made a plea on Thursday for collective efforts from the international community to provide funding for South Sudan’s response to the influx of returnees and refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
Local authorities in Twic County of Warrap State announced on Wednesday that St. Daniel Primary School has reopened its doors to students after nearly a month-long hiatus without lessons. The closure, which began on June 28th, was a result of a land dispute between the local community and the Catholic Church of Wunrok Payam in Twic County.
Wau town, the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal State, witnessed the arrest of four individuals on Tuesday over allegations of engaging in the sale of cannabis, locally known as "bhang."
The Community Development Centre (CDC) in Yei River County announced on Tuesday its innovative approach to addressing environmental pollution and climate change by utilizing discarded plastic materials to manufacture bricks.
The Eastern Equatoria State Council of Ministers convened an extraordinary session, known as sitting number 11, to discuss the issue of 337 teachers and other civil servants allegedly deserting their workstations.
The National Minister of Public Service, Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro, has urged government officials to prioritize farming as a crucial focus.
The South Sudanese government has announced that a National Economic Conference will be held from September 4 to 8.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Warrap State Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport on Tuesday concluded a transformative leadership training program for 35 young individuals in Kuajok town, Warrap State.
The President of the Human Rights Council, Václav Bálek, has appointed Carlos Castresana Fernández of Spain as a member of Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.
The Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS) Bishops have urged for the prompt execution of the general elections scheduled for December 2024, in accordance with the agreed 24-month extension.
Louis Lobong Lojore, the governor of Eastern Equatoria State, has issued a stern warning to his cabinet ministers, cautioning them against the unjust suspension of competent civil servants and the employment of their relatives to fill vacant positions.
The Western Equatoria State Chamber of Commerce has recently announced its newly appointed leadership, which aims to address the economic obstacles plaguing markets across the state.
Residents of Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State are celebrating the recent installation of a solar lighting system, which has brought newfound happiness and improved security to their community.
South Sudan’s Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare on Tuesday launched the Maputo Protocol, also known as the African Convention on Human and People’s Rights on the rights of women. This landmark event follows the signing of the protocol into law by President Salva Kiir.
Authorities in Eastern Equatoria State are currently investigating the tragic death of a 90-year-old man in Abalwa village, Torit County. The incident occurred last week when a group of young individuals in Abalwa detained Marcelino Alaw, suspecting him of having the ability to bewitch rainfall.
A Catholic priest in the Catholic Diocese of Torit has made a fervent appeal to the government to improve health services nationwide. Father Joseph Otto, the parish priest of Our Lady of Sorrow Kapoeta parish, expressed his sentiments during a thanksgiving mass held at the residence of Minister Josephine Napwon Cosmos, the national Minister of Environments.
A small cargo aircraft crash-landed at an airstrip in Walgak town of Akobo County, Jonglei State, on Monday. All five people aboard, including two crewmembers, are safe.
The parliamentary committee on Finance and Economic Planning has concluded a public hearing as part of its inquiry into the 2023-2024 budget estimates.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Monday appointed an undersecretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and promoted legal counsels.
A local humanitarian outfit, Care Club Foundation, on Monday, donated assorted scholastic materials to 14 orphans and students living with disability from various secondary schools in Aweil town, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The residents of the Abyei Administrative Area have voiced their concern over skyrocketing commodity prices in the main markets of Amiet and Abyei.
A national NGO, Talent Initiative for Development (TIDE), over the weekend, trained at least 22 students drawn from nine schools in basic journalism skills in Yei River County in Central Equatoria State.
The local authorities in Nyirol County in Jonglei State said they are holding seven ringleaders of armed local youth who were involved in shooting in the air on Friday and terrorizing residents of the county headquarters, Langkien.
The traffic police in the Jonglei State capital, Bor, is carrying out an operation against unlicensed motorcycle taxis, commonly referred to as boda-bodas who do not adhere to traffic and road safety regulations.
Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin is a veteran South Sudanese opposition politician and leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM).
Although colonial oppression officially ended in the late 1950s when Sudan gained independence, the lingering effects of colonialism continued to shape the minds of South Sudanese. Even after South Sudan separated from Sudan, the remnants of colonial influence remained, impacting how individuals perceived themselves and others. Now, centuries after the colonial era, South Sudanese have a unique opportunity to decolonize their minds from the enduring consequences of colonialism and overcome the ethnic divisions imposed upon them in the 1800s.
The youth in Cueibet County of Lakes State have defiantly organized and carried out a cultural fattening show, disregarding the ban imposed by the recently passed Customary and Public Order Act 2022.
The police in Jonglei State said they are holding a man who opened fire on his in-laws and injured seven of them at the Bor main market in the state capital, Bor.
South Sudan, a nation facing a persistent energy crisis, has been actively seeking ways to alleviate its power shortage. Only 7.74% of the population has access to grid electricity, 7.2% of the households rely on renewable energy for cooking, while the majority of the population relies on traditional biomass for cooking and lighting. One potential solution has been to import hydroelectricity from its neighbouring country, Uganda. However, as South Sudan embarks on this endeavor, concerns are emerging regarding the potential disadvantages of relying heavily on Ugandan hydroelectricity.
The Central Equatoria State government and a private investor, Zebed Investment Company, on Thursday, inaugurated a new abattoir in Juba’s Gudele suburb.
The Ministry of Health in Unity State has reported a devastating toll of 30 children who lost their lives due to measles in various counties.
The Juba City Council Authorities announced on Thursday that the price of water sold in residential areas by tankers would be increased with immediate effect.
A devastating road accident in Twic East County, Jonglei State, resulted in the loss of three lives, with seven others sustaining injuries, according to local officials.
The Vice President for the Economic Cluster seeks to recover approximately 9 billion USD in unpaid tax arrears from major oil firms operating in the country.
The German Embassy in Juba has awarded grants to two national NGOs with the aim of improving community cohesion and fostering peace.
The Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in Lakes State has initiated an official registration process for South Sudanese returnees and Sudanese refugees.
South Sudan’s Ambassador to Uganda, Simon Juach Deng, worked with international organizations before he was appointed an ambassador.
Citizens and officials in Warrap State have raised concerns about a severe food shortage in Gogrial West and Twic Counties. The crisis has also begun to spread to neighbouring areas.
The Ministry of Education on Thursday released the results of the 2022/2023 Certificate of Secondary School Examinations in which Eastern Equatoria State emerged as the best-performing state followed by Central Equatoria State.
Pariang Hospital in Ruweng Administrative Area is currently facing a critical shortage of essential drugs, according to the local health department.
Seven people, including two women and a minor, were on Wednesday shot dead in separate incidents in the Camp 15 area of Loryok Payam, Budi County, in Eastern Equatoria State, officials said.
The committee of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) tasked with reviewing and scrutinizing the 2023/2024 draft budget has forwarded it to the budget cluster for final compilation, the assembly’s spokesman said.
The Lakes State ministry of culture, youth and sports, Rumbek Central County Youth Union, and Plan International on Wednesday officially opened a new livelihood incubation center in Rumbek to train youth in vocational skills and conflict management among others.
The residents of Akon in Gogrial West County, Warrap State, where President Salva Kiir hails from, are upbeat about witnessing the construction of the first asphalt road in the area and the entire state.
The director of the Steward Women organization, Josephine Chandiru Drama, on Tuesday, received an award for championing the ratification of the Maputo Protocol in South Sudan.
At least 37 journalists and representatives from the media authority, police, and army earlier in the week attended a workshop on the role of the media to chart ways of working collaboratively before and during the elections slated for the end of 2024.
The security sector in South Sudan is one of the leading sectors in budget allocation amid increasing demands for the provision of basic services and peace implementation.
The Lakes State Revitalized Transitional Assembly in Rumbek on Monday recommenced work with Governor Rin Tueny Moabor presiding over the opening of its third parliamentary session.
A cross-section of the youth in Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have denounced the prevailing gang culture and violence and said they want to be productive members of the society.
A local official in Kapoeta South County in Eastern Equatoria State confirmed that three people were gunned down in the Lowering gold mining area by suspected Buya youth from Budi County on Monday.
As South Sudan joined African nations in commemorating African Anti-Corruption Day in the capital city of Juba on Tuesday, Nathaniel Oyet, the first deputy speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), expressed concerns about the ongoing corruption perpetrated by government officials who claim to be liberators.
The commissioner of Ezo County in Western Equatoria State has urged armed forces and civilians to coexist for sustainable peace in the area.
Mayom County in Unity State has seen the arrest of eight individuals who were involved in cattle rustling, according to local authorities.
Authorities in Yirol East County of Lakes State have reported an incident involving a wildlife officer who was shot and wounded by suspected armed youth from neighbouring Panyijar County. The attackers also looted the officer’s sack of dry fish along the road to Yirol East County.
The Commissioner of Fangak County in Jonglei State, Biel Boutrus Biel, has raised concerns over the lack of a telecommunication network in the county, emphasizing its adverse impact on coordination with state leadership and the delivery of essential services to residents.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while reacting to resolutions of the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the IGAD Quartet Group of Countries that took place on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said Sudan will not allow the deployment of foreign troops and will treat it as an act of aggression.
A member of the Council of States, the upper house of Parliament, said that he was assaulted and thrown into jail by security forces who he suspected wanted to rob him of 200 USD in Juba.
"You did not fight, you did not liberate this country, we liberated you, you were not in the bush, etc." These are some of the common phrases often used to label certain groups of South Sudanese by those who consider themselves the "liberators" of South Sudan. As a result of such categorization, there is a tendency to prioritize the contributions of specific ethnicities and regions while dismissing those of others. This privileging of military contributions and the use of such labels grant those who perceive themselves as "liberators" a sense of entitlement to political, economic, and military power. Consequently, they can exclude, oppress, abuse, subjugate, and silence those who hold different perspectives.
A motorized cargo boat caught fire in Bor town, Jonglei State, on Monday evening, bringing the total number of such incidents in the town to three since June.
The South Sudanese government has allocated SSP281,814,086 ($282,000) to the National Elections Commission in the financial year budget 2023/2024.
The meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the IGAD Quartet Group of Countries on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the implementation of the IGAD Roadmap for peace in Sudan resolved to consider the deployment of regional troops in Sudan, a communique said.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan’ (UJOSS) office in Yei in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State over the weekend elected a new executive body to run its affairs after the previous executive body served for close to eleven years.
The Eastern Equatoria State government on Sunday awarded certificates of appreciation to honor 40 veterans who participated in the struggle for independence since the 1950s.
Police in Juba are investigating a series of incidents that resulted in the deaths of three individuals during the 12th Independence Day celebration in South Sudan’s capital.
The presidency is spending more money than the entire budget of a South Sudanese state, according to documents reviewed by Radio Tamazuj.
Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba, Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, expressed his gratitude upon receiving the news of his appointment as a Cardinal, emphasizing his commitment to serving the church at an elevated capacity.
Authorities in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have expressed concern over the alarming increase in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases.
The governor of Central Equatoria State has called on the rebel National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirillo Swaka to stop rampant attacks ambushing, looting, and torching vehicles on major roads.
The chairman of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) on Sunday said the pre-requisites necessary to carry out free, fair, and credible elections 18 months from now are not in place.
The Chairman and Commander-in-Chief of the rebel National Salvation Front/Army (NAS), Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, on Sunday, said his outfit and other opposition groups that did not sign the 2018 revitalized peace agreement were justified because the deal was flawed.
As South Sudan celebrated 12 years of independence on Sunday 9 July, a cross-section of citizens in Eastern Equatoria State have questioned the absence of peace, lack of government services, and development which they say they expected after independence.
The police in Unity State’s Rubkona County over the weekend arrested a Ugandan doctor after one of his patients, a Sudanese trader identified as Mohammed Wanga, died of complications related to an injection on his backside.
At least four women were killed in a boat accident along the River Nile in Jonglei State’s Fangak County on Friday night, local officials said.
The youth in Jur River County in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Sunday marked South Sudan’s Independence Day anniversary, 9 July, with a friendly football competition in Kuajiena Payam.
The Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology has opened a rice research and training centre on the main campus in the Jonglei State capital, Bor.
In Longechuk County, children sit under the trees to receive classes because there are no building facilities available. Pupils and teachers complain bitterly about the situation.
Pope Francis on Sunday announced his choice of 21 new cardinals, set to be formally installed to the posts in September.
Nyok Malual Mayik, the commissioner of Pigi County who was recently dismissed from the National Democratic Movement (NDM) party, said his dismissal was illegal.
As South Sudan commemorates its 12th anniversary of independence, citizens from different areas have expressed their urgent need for sustainable peace, stability, and development to benefit all South Sudanese through improved service delivery.
A 55-year-old man lost his life in a tragic incident when suspected raiders attacked a cattle camp in Mayom County, Unity State, last Thursday, according to a local official.
The Eritrea Community in Juba on Saturday conducted a clean-up exercise at the Customs market ahead of the anniversary of South Sudan's independence on Sunday.
Citizens in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State on Thursday turned up for a cleaning campaign in preparation for the 12th independence anniversary.
A group of passionate young leaders from diverse backgrounds in South Sudan launched the National Network Against Tribalism on Friday.
Eastern Equatoria State governor Louis Lobong Lojore has made a strong appeal to citizens, calling for cost-sharing in a wide range of essential services aimed at improving livelihoods.
As South Sudan prepares for its upcoming elections, the nation stands at a critical juncture in its young history. These elections hold immense significance not only for the country itself but also for the wider region. South Sudan has faced numerous challenges since gaining independence in 2011, including internal conflicts, economic instability, and humanitarian crises. However, the forthcoming elections provide a glimmer of hope for the nation to move towards a brighter future of stability and prosperity. Elections can offer several opportunities for a nation, including:
The family of the late Nyankiir Lual has lodged an appeal against the court’s decision to sentence her husband, Simon Marial, to life imprisonment for her murder in the Lemon Gaba suburb of Juba last year.
The defense lawyers representing the case of the tragic rape and murder of five-year-old Abuk Lula Lual have firmly denied the rumours circulating about the alleged escape of Sabir Abdalla Abusam, the condemned murderer, from Wau Central Prison in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
In a devastating turn of events, four family members in Uror County of Jonglei State lost their lives on Tuesday due to suspected food poisoning, according to local authorities.
Authorities in Warrap State reported on Wednesday that an individual, identified as Chol Ngor, entered the council of ministers’ building and caused damage to office furniture and windows.
Three people have been critically injured after a four-storey building under construction collapsed at Hai Thoura in the capital Juba, a local official said.
South Sudan’s Member of Parliament, Juol Nhomngek, has taken legal action against the assembly by filing a court case at the Eastern Africa Court of Justice.
A remarkable event took place at Ruweng Administrative Area Hospital as over 100 individuals underwent free eye surgeries.
The High Court in Jonglei State has issued a ruling demanding that Radio Jonglei, a community radio station located in Bor town, pay SSP 1,660,400 in compensation to five of its former employees whose contracts were unjustly terminated last year.
Finn Church Aid has celebrated the graduation of its fourth batch of trainees consisting of 43 women who successfully completed an intensive training program in tailoring and hairdressing.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit, who is also the ruling SPLM Party chairman, has promised to upgrade the Wau Stadium in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
The Jonglei State government on Tuesday launched a Back-to-Learning campaign in the state capital, Bor.
The secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Peter Lam Both, has said that the party has so far registered 4.9 million members across the country.
You will see them first thing in the morning prepping ambushes for motorists along Juba City’s main and back streets and on blind corners where drivers least suspect them to be. They are the ‘white angels’ as corrupt elements of the traffic police have come to be disparagingly referred to by the motoring public who fault them for being endemically corrupt and ripping off drivers instead of alleviating peak hour traffic jams.
The South Sudanese capital, Juba, witnessed a shooting incident at Christ Church Nakasongola in the early morning hours of Tuesday, resulting in four reported injuries.
The Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passports and Immigration announced on Tuesday that it has acquired over 200,000 ordinary passport booklets to address the increasing demand for the next two years.
A two-day training program on conflict mitigation was initiated this week by a consortium of Civil Society Organizations. The participating organizations include Nonviolent Peaceforce, Human Rights Defenders Network in South Sudan, and the Union of Journalists in South Sudan (UJOSS).
Incumbent President Salva Kiir who is also the chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party on Tuesday welcomed his endorsement as the outfit’s candidate ahead of next year’s general elections.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday donated Information and Communications Technology (ICT) equipment to the University of Juba and the National Bureau of Statistics to help strengthen their digital capacity.
The local authorities in Aweil Center County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, the state government, the community, and the UNMISS over the weekend held a ceremony to inaugurate a new police station in Barmayen Payam built by UN Mission.
Thousands of returnees who are seeking shelter in parts of Upper Nile State after fleeing the unrest in Sudan remain in dire need of humanitarian aid, local officials and returnees said.
A disciplinary committee of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) has resolved to expel and terminate the membership of two officials, a Monday statement by the party’s spokesperson, Mahmoud Akot, said.
At least six people, who the Ruweng Administrative Area authorities say were members of a peace delegation, were killed in Wunkur County when they were attacked by SPLA-IO forces over the weekend.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir left Juba Tuesday morning for Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, to address his party’s rally there.
Aweil West County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State is facing a significant challenge in carrying out effective agricultural activities due to a hunger crisis exacerbated by the floods that occurred last year, local leaders said.
The Judicial Reform Committee, chaired by Justice James Ogoola, briefed the Minister of Justice on Monday about its ongoing consultations and progress in achieving the committee’s mandate.
Security has been tightened in the Western Bahr el Ghazal state capital, Wau, ahead of a visit by President Salva Kiir which is expected on Tuesday.
The Upper Nile State government has dismissed reports of an alleged ongoing mobilization by armed groups to attack the state capital, Malakal town.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) over the weekend officially opened its secretariat and launched a registration exercise for its members in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal.
A tragic head-on collision involving a motorcycle and a truck in Rubkona County, Unity State, on Sunday morning, left two people dead, traffic police said.
A 14-day animal vaccination and peace building training, organized by the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) in collaboration with the state Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries and supported by the UNMISS field office in Rumbek, has concluded in Rumbek on Friday, with participants calling for the initiative to be extended to other states.
Authorities in Aweil West County of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, have recently implemented stringent security measures aimed at addressing the issue of guns smuggling to Sudanese refugees in the Wedwil Refugees Camp.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), the ruling party in South Sudan, on Thursday donated seven Land Cruiser vehicles to County SPLM Chairpersons, the State SPLM Youth League, and the State SPLM Women League in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
Longechuk County in Upper Nile State is grappling with shortages of drugs, according to health officials and local residents.
The Secretary General of the United Sudan African Party (USAP) in Western Bahr el Ghazal state has refuted the claims made by the recently defected USAP chairman, who alleged that the state branch office had been closed.
The Bishops of the Catholic Church in South Sudan have voiced serious concerns on Friday regarding the ongoing conflict in Sudan, highlighting the alarming rate of killings and human rights violations that have taken place since the outbreak of hostilities in mid-April.
A group of local youth from Wunrok Payam of Twic County, Warrap State, attacked a school administered by Church missionaries, resulting in injuries to 11 students, local officials said.
The Embassies of Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States have expressed deep concern regarding the escalating reports of armed groups mobilizing in Upper Nile State, particularly in the Malakal Protection of Civilians (POC) site.
A two-day human rights training session for local government officials in Torit concluded on Wednesday with significant resolutions.
The Turkish Red Crescent has distributed meat to 600 Sudanese refugees seeking shelter in South Sudan on the auspicious occasion of Eid Al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice.
Over 90 women and girls will gain access to life-changing skills through a new partnership between the German Embassy and the Humanitarian and Development Consortium (HDC),” a press statement said.
The Acholi community of Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State has faulted the former governor of the now defunct Torit State, Tobiolo Oromo ALberio, Eastern Equatoria State Local Government Minister Peter Lokeng Lotone, and other politicians who hail from Ikotos County for trying to annex a village in Magwi County to Ikotos County.
A two-day inter-states peace conference involving the Launjang community of Tonj East in Warrap State and the Pakam community of Rumbek North County in Lakes State started on Tuesday in Warrap’s Tonj South County.
The local authorities in Leer County in Unity State on Wednesday forcefully demolished at least 100 houses in the Leer Temporary Protection Area (TPA).
The Director General at Wau Teaching Hospital in Western Bahr el Ghazal state said the main referral hospital in the region lacks essential services, drugs, and professional doctors.
The South Sudan National Bureau of Standards announced on Tuesday its intention to dispose of 120 tons of impounded food items imported from Uganda.
The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) have recently announced their decision to allocate leadership positions within the army and defense ministry to officers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) and South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA).
The Police Commissioner of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, Major General Philip Madut Tong, has emphasized the importance of cooperation between the police and the community to effectively address criminal activities throughout the state.
Authorities in the Kidepo Valley area have reported the tragic death of a Ugandan construction engineer in Bira Payam, Ikotos County of Eastern Equatoria State, on Monday.
Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual, the leader of the SPLM/A-IO Kit-Gwang Faction, said President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar are political profiteers who should be removed if South Sudan is to have peace.
At least four people have been arrested in Mayom County in Unity State for rustling cattle from the Fulla area in neighboring Sudan, authorities said.
A 50-year-old man was shot and killed by his nephew during a wife inheritance dispute over the weekend in Twic County’s Ajak Kuac Payam in Warrap State, the police said.
The governor of Central Equatoria State has fired the mayor of Juba City Council (JCC) and his two deputies.
The National Bureau of Standards has signed a five-year contract with East Africa Automobile Services Co. Ltd (EAA), a prominent Japanese firm. The agreement aims to enhance the inspection process for vehicles imported from Japan into the country.
The recently appointed Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) has announced a fresh objective to enhance the collection of non-oil revenue, as the ongoing war in Sudan poses a threat to oil-based income.
In an effort to enhance its academic program and promote students productivity, the administration of Dr. John Garang University has embarked on a large-scale agricultural project.
The Bank of South Sudan (BOSS) on Tuesday launched an ambitious five-year strategic plan to bolster and revamp the country’s fragile economy.
The commissioner of Longechuk County in Upper Nile State has said tension remains high in the county headquarters, Mathiang town, following fighting between elements of the SSPDF and SPLA-IO there over the weekend.
The governor of Lakes State on Monday presided over the swearing-in of the new state ministers of labour and public service and information and communication and the commissioner of Rumbek of North County.
The visit of President Salva Kiir who is also the chairman of the SPLM party to Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, which was slated for today (Tuesday), has been postponed because he instead traveled to South Africa.
Schoolchildren in Uror County of Jonglei State are facing significant challenges in obtaining a quality education due to a shortage of scholastic materials and an inadequate learning environment.
The People’s Republic of China on Monday tasked the Government of South Sudan to expedite the payment of arrears for the construction of the country’s Air Traffic Management System (ATM).
A measles vaccination campaign has commenced in Rubkona and Koch counties in Unity State, targeting returnees, particularly those who recently fled Sudan. The initiative aims to vaccinate individuals aged five months to 15 years.
The Eastern Equatoria State Legislative Assembly has reconvened following a two-month recess, with lawmakers returning to address the pressing challenges facing their constituents.
The authorities of Warrap State on Monday received a total of 301 returnees. Among them were 151 individuals who had returned from Paloch town of Upper Nile State and another 150 from Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Secretariat in Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, on Monday, said that their new member, Gabriel Bol Dut, has been released from detention.
Warrap State Information Minister William Wol Mayom on Monday confirmed that the National Security Services (NSS) has arrested four people in the state in connection with an audio recording that went viral a couple of weeks ago in which witch doctors purportedly hired by Gen. Akol Koor Kuc were invoking the gods to kill President Salva Kiir.
The United Sudan African Party (USAP) on Sunday ended operations and shut its office in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, as its chairman and other members joined the ruling SPLM party.
A 23-year-old man who was riding a motorcycle was knocked dead and his pillion passenger was injured by a speeding National Security Service (NSS) vehicle over the weekend in Rubkona County, Unity State, the traffic police said.
The deputy chairperson of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in Lakes State, Adhuk Achol Ageu, has denied allegations made by a parliamentarian that rice donated by the Chinese government to flood-affected communities has gone missing.
A two-day training session for traditional leaders, including youth, civil societies, and women leaders, concluded last week with a strong emphasis on empowering chiefs and women to provide legal services to grassroots communities.
South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance and Planning on Friday signed a 5 million U.S. dollars deal with the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) as a government’s contribution to support the livelihood and to resettle the most vulnerable returnees from Sudan.
Citizens in Eastern Equatoria State are voicing their disappointment after learning that the construction of the Juba-Nadapal highway has suddenly ceased due to a lack of funding.
Pigi County, located in Jonglei State, is grappling with a major drug shortage as the number of water-related diseases continues to rise, according to residents and local officials.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS), Warrap state branch, on Saturday, conducted a one-day training session at Dr. Justin Yaach’s Hall in Kuajok town. The training aimed to enhance the capabilities of 25 local journalists and nine senior government officials in effectively addressing and avoiding the pitfalls of misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and propaganda.
Three South Sudanese athletes who participated in the Special Olympics World Games 2023 which came to a close with a ceremony held at the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, won four medals.
The head of the Episcopal Church in South Sudan (ECSS), Dr. Justin Badi Arama, has given a condition to reinstate defrocked archbishop Ruben Akurdit Ngong.
A civil society activist in the disputed territory of Abyei said citizens in the area are ready to take part in the upcoming elections scheduled for 2024 in South Sudan.
A shipment of transmission line cables for the electricity station in Wau has recently arrived in Western Bahr el Ghazal state. On Thursday, ten trucks carrying these materials reached their destination, marking progress in the electrification efforts.
Over 8,000 returnees in the Rotriak area of Rubkona County, Unity State, are currently facing a severe shortage of drinking water after fleeing conflict in Sudan since the beginning of May.
A high-ranking commander of the National Salvation Front (NAS) on Saturday abandoned the rebellion and joined the government in Yei River County.
The National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by veteran opposition politician Dr. Lam Akol has opened its head office in an event held in Juba on Saturday.
The Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) urge journalists to proactively raise public awareness and report accurate information about the upcoming general elections.
Following consultations on the National Elections Act, 2012 (Amendments) Bill, 2023, stakeholders demand increased inclusivity for women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
The Council of Ministers has allocated over 105 million South Sudanese Pounds to the Students Support Fund, a significant step aimed at cushioning disadvantaged students.
The authorities of Kuajok municipal council in Warrrap State have connected 200 shops in the Kuajok market to solar power. The initiative aims to enhance security measures and enable traders to operate for longer hours in their businesses.
Authorities in Chahari Payam in Ikotos County, Eastern Equatoria State, have apprehended a 22-year-old man suspected of shooting and killing a 50-year-old Somali driver along the Chahari-Kikilai road.
The head of National Revenue Authority (NRA) Dr. Patrick Mugoya was sacked on Friday evening by President Salva Kiir with immediate effect.
South Sudan’s information minister on Friday insisted that they have resolved the dispute over the sacking of defense minister and swapping of ministries.
Be aware of a fake job recruitment portal professing to be South Sudan National Revenue Authority (NRA) advertising for more than 7,000 jobs. This is a fake recruitment portal.
Health authorities in Unity State have confirmed a measles outbreak in Rotriak payam of Rubkona County, resulting in two fatalities and the identification of nine new cases.
The Misseriya community in Sudan’s West Kordofan State played a vital role on Tuesday in escorting over 200 South Sudanese returnees who had been trapped in Meiram Locality to Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, local officials said.
The juvenile correctional centre in Western Bahr el Ghazal state is currently grappling with a severe shortage of water, leaving the facility’s inmates at risk.
A Juba court on Thursday decided to adjourn a case involving Bishop David Akau Kuol of the Awerial Diocese of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS) to 5 July.
A political figure who said he was fed up with the ruling SPLM Party and joined the opposition SPLM-IO in Aweil has gone missing, raising concerns he might have been arrested.
The Acting Interior Minister, Peter Puok Koang, expressed concern over the harsh living conditions of the Joint Security Forces (JSF units), particularly those deployed to maintain security in Juba.
Germany has announced a significant pledge of €200 million to Sudan and its neighbouring countries, including South Sudan, in response to the escalating humanitarian needs arising from the conflict in Sudan.
The Norwegian Ambassador to South Sudan, Linken Nymann Berryman, and the Chairperson of the Ceasefire Transitional Security Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM), Major General Hailu Gonfa Eddosa, have signed a grant agreement to extend Norway’s financial support to the mechanism this year.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the government of Sweden have joined forces to bolster reproductive programs and address gender-based violence in South Sudan.
The High Court in Juba on Thursday sentenced a man who stabbed his wife to death to life in prison after finding him guilty of first-degree murder under section 206 of South Sudan’s Penal Code 2008.
Political parties in Raja County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, said they have united in their commitment to coexist for the sake of stability and development in the county.
At least 61 traditional leaders on Wednesday started a two-day training in human rights, cultural practices, monitoring, and reporting conflict-related violations in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State.
Acting National Minister of Interior Peter Puok Koang and Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony agreed, after meeting on Wednesday, to jointly check insecurity in Juba City and clampdown on the activities of violent youth gangs commonly known as Toronto Boys who often mug people.
The Parliamentary Committee for Legislation and Justice on Thursday commenced a two-day stakeholders’ consultation on the proposed amendments to the National Elections Act 2012 (Amendments) Bill 2023.
Citizens in Warrap State have asked the state government to use collected revenue to fund the health sector and improve security.
The local authorities of Pigi County in Jonglei State have complained about an insufficient number of qualified teachers and a lack of necessary textbooks and stationery as primary schools reopen across the county for the first time since the civil war erupted in December 2013.
The chairman of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC), on Tuesday, while addressing the United Nations Security Council, said that with about 18 months to the end of the extended Transitional Period of the peace agreement, key benchmarks need to be attained for the conduct of free, fair and credible elections.
Officials in Jonglei State’s agriculture ministry have presaged that inhabitants in parts of the state could be affected by severe hunger at the end of 2023 due to poor rainfall.
Zachariah Joseph Garang, chairperson of the ruling SPLM Party in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, has threatened to deal with those who express dissenting views in the party.
Two influential members of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State tendered their resignations and joined the opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO).
Western Equatoria State Governor Gen. Alfred Futuyo Karaba has repudiated claims that he carried out several attacks that resulted in abductions and the gang rape of hundreds of civilians by soldiers under his command in Western Equatoria.
First and foremost, I would like to give an explanation as to why the election is often described as a process rather than an event. The election process involves multiple stages, from the announcement of the election to the casting and counting of ballots. It is a complex, multi-faceted process that requires planning, coordination, and the involvement of multiple stakeholders. In addition, elections can have far-reaching consequences, particularly in democratic societies where the outcome of an election can shape public policy, political discourse, and the lives of citizens. Therefore, the election process is not just about the moment when votes are cast and counted but also about the lead-up to the election, including campaign periods, voter education, and the dissemination of information about candidates and issues. An election process is a critical component of democratic governance, and it is important to recognize that it is an ongoing process that extends beyond the day of the actual election.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and several government ministries have signed a 270 million US dollar deal to implement a project on resilience and development.
A group of teachers, who were recently released from detention on the order of the Lakes State Minister of General Education, Nelson Makoi Makur, are appealing to Governor Rin Tueny Mabor to replace the embattled minister.
The trial of 33 civilians accused of killing 54 soldiers in Warrap state has been adjourned due to the absence of members of the General Court Martial and defense lawyers.
Abyei’s Minister of Information said that four suspected armed youth from Twic County in Warrap State were killed, and one local youth from Abyei was seriously injured during an attempted cattle raid in the village of Wunruop over the weekend.
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) in its meeting on 21 June 2023 resolved to suspend the membership of three of its members who were nominated by the party over two years ago to occupy government positions in the States.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday released the findings of its recent Perception and Public Opinion Survey conducted by an independent third party which said among other things says that citizens are apprehensive about the government’s capacity to conduct the forthcoming elections.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday, while briefing the UN Security Council, warned that the crisis in Sudan has had major implications for the implementation of South Sudan’s revitalized peace agreement.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Monday called for unity of purpose among Bari youth to push for sustainable peace and development as preparations for the commemoration of Jubek Day nears.
South Sudan’s Finance Minister Dier Tong Ngor on Tuesday presented the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2023/2024 before parliament.
The Warrap State government and developmental partners on Tuesday launched a strategic development plan for 2022-2024 at the Dr. Justin Yaac Hall in Kuajok town.
Women leaders from church-based groups, the police, civil society organizations, and the community have demanded the elimination of crimes such as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based against women, girls, and children in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The US administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a South Sudanese military general and state governor accused in connection with the rapes of hundreds of women and girls.
Following a long recess, Upper Nile State's parliament – the legislative arm of the state government – reopened on Monday amid the absence of many of its members.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it has commenced the operation of mobile clinics, aiming to deliver primary healthcare services to returnees from Sudan at Zero and Riverside transit sites in Renk town, Upper Nile state.
The authorities in Kapoeta East County in Eastern Equatoria State have accused Turkana tribesmen from neighbouring Kenya of raiding 20 head of cattle from the area.
Insecurity and heavy rains have led to the suspension of cross-border trade between South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State and West Kordofan State in Sudan, traders and local officials have said.
The Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) on Tuesday started training 20 journalists and editors drawn from various media houses across the country in coverage of elections.
The Warrap State Revenue Authority (SRA) on Monday announced that it has collected SSP 161,843,288 and USD 161,000 in revenue and Personal Income Tax (PIT) from nationals working for NGOs in the last four months.
The construction of the Juba-Nadapal road has come to an abrupt halt due to a lack of funding, a government official has said.
The family and political party of Jacob Thon Dhiei, a government critic, are demanding his urgent release, citing his deteriorating health condition.
Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Aweil West County of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State are yearning for peace to be restored in their country so they can return home.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday passed the National Public Health Institute Bill 2022 after it was presented by the health ministry.
Local authorities in Alali Payam in Akobo County, Jonglei State, have said that the area has run out of essential medicines amidst a rise in diarrheal and respiratory infections.
Lawmakers are seeking to establish their own clinic within Parliament buildings to cater to their medical treatment ne
A team from the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) over the weekend arrived in Western Equatoria State to consult and plan for a peace conference in Tambura County to resolve the conflict between the Azande and Balanda tribes.
In a shocking incident on Friday, a woman lost her life in an altercation with a police officer over an alcohol dispute.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has welcomed the concrete steps taken by the Government of South Sudan to pursue accountability and justice for survivors of serious crimes, including sexual violence, in Yei, Central Equatoria State.
Authorities in Unity State have announced that Egyptian engineers have assembled four large machines in preparation for the clearing of River Naam.
Health facilities in Panyijiar County are grappling with a shortage of essential medical supplies, residents and officials have said.
Mangalla Payam in Central Equatoria State is experiencing a return to normalcy as residents, who were displaced during last year’s conflict between local youths and cattle herders from Jonglei, are now resettling in their places of origin.
The South Sudan Red Cross awarded certificates, bicycles, cups, and pens to over 60 frequent blood donors in Eastern Equatoria State last Thursday.
In an effort to enhance crop production and combat food shortages in the upcoming agricultural season, local authorities in Twic County, Warrap State, have recently passed a new bylaw.
Close to 3,800 returnees and refugees who arrived from Sudan to Jonglei’s Nyirol County are living in harsh humanitarian conditions, local officials and returnees said.
Authorities in Kapoeta East County of Eastern Equatoria State have arrested a 23-year-old man on accusations of impregnating a schoolgirl and potentially being involved in the termination of the pregnancy in Narus.
Two women went missing while fetching firewood in Duk county of Jonglei State on Wednesday, a local official said.
At least 80 individuals residing in the Bentiu IDP camp in Unity State generously donated blood to a secondary healthcare hospital in the camp.
The Council of Ministers on Friday ordered the Transport Ministry and the Civil Aviation Authority to thoroughly screen all the aeroplanes operating in the country following an increase in plane crashes.
South Sudan is battling to secure critical oil equipment and supplies for production due to the ongoing war in Sudan, a senior official said.
Bentiu Refinery could export refined petroleum products to the East African region by August of this year, according to the refinery’s owner SNP Group.
Legislators in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State expressed their frustration on Thursday after a miscommunication led to confusion regarding their salaries.
Employees at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) on Friday staged protests to demand incentives, accusing the institution’s head of embezzlement.
South Sudan’s cabinet on Friday approved 6.5 million U.S. dollars to sponsor the basketball team ‘Bright Stars” in World Cup final.
The ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) held a political rally in the town of Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, on Thursday.
A wildlife soldier was tragically killed on Wednesday when their vehicle came under attack by armed men along the Kapoeta-Camp 15 road in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state. Four other soldiers also sustained gunshot injuries in the incident.
Government-owned oil company (Nilepet) will be an energy operator by 2027 as part of the company's growth strategy, a senior official said.
Citizens in Kapoeta South County of Eastern Equatoria State are currently suffering from a severe drinking water shortage after borehole pumps broke down since last month.
Violence against civilians persists across South Sudan, according to the latest quarterly Human Rights Brief from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
More than 2,000 heads of cattle stolen during a raid in Nyirol County of Jonglei State were recovered on Thursday, local officials said.
South Sudanese oilfield services company Nile Drilling & Services on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese firm to import two new drilling rigs.
Authorities in Northern Bahr el Ghazal have reported a series of deadly attacks in the northern parts of the state and areas south of Meiram Locality, Sudan, resulting in the loss of 10 lives, including three soldiers from the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF).
Warrap State's Minister of Information on Wednesday solemnly announced the passing of Tereza Awien Dhal, the Deputy Chairperson of the State Anti-Corruption Commission.
A cargo boat loaded with relief food went up in flames at a dock in the Jonglei State capital Bor on Wednesday.
The minister of Information who also doubles as the government spokesperson on Wednesday while meeting parliamentarians enumerated the challenges hindering the good performance of the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC).
The Kajo-Keji community on Wednesday commended the Central Equatoria State government’s decision to commemorate this year’s Independence Day anniversary celebrations in Kajo-Keji town.
South Sudan on Wednesday joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Blood Donor Day under the theme "Give blood, give plasma, share life, share often."
The Chief Whip of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM IO) in the national parliament on Wednesday appealed to Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba to allow the suspended SPLM-IO legislator, Daniel Juol Nhomngek access the house, saying his blockage is not legal.
Gunmen believed to be from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have killed the pro-army governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abekr, shortly after he gave an interview blaming the paramilitary unit for a wave of killings in the town of Al Geneina.
South Sudan’s national transport minister on Wednesday revealed that the China Harbour Engineering Company), a Chinese firm contracted to build the Country’s air traffic management system in Juba, has halted work on the project due to delays in payment of an outstanding bill of 36 million U.S dollars.
The Abyei Area’s Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries has released its findings after investigating reports of contaminated fish that allegedly made consumers sick in Awal village last week.
In a bid to address the mobility challenges faced by the government of Western Equatoria, 11 vehicles were purchased using local revenue.
South Sudanese security services detained a critic of the government in Juba on Sunday, according to his political party and family.
About 50 police officers are undergoing a training course on Gender-Base Violence in Juba to enhance the protection of women and children against all forms of abuse.
The leader of the opposition Common People’s Alliance (CPA), Deng Bol Aruai, took a stand on Tuesday to defend his newly established party against allegations that it is a briefcase party.
The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) on Wednesday said its official Facebook account had fallen victim to a hacking incident.
The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Western Bahr el Ghazal State ministry of gender, child and social welfare, and the health ministry, on Tuesday officially inaugurated a physical rehabilitation centre at Wau Teaching Hospital.
A leading member of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) in Aweil town in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State has warned that the upcoming elections scheduled for December 2024 will not be free and fair if the peace agreement is not properly implemented.
The Bangladesh contingent of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers in Western Bahr el Ghazal State together with SSPDF’s Fifth Infantry Division and the state government on Tuesday unveiled a friendship monument in honor of Dr. John Garang De Mabior and former Bangladesh leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is popularly known as Bangabandhu.
It’s been observed that for over a decade since independence on 9th July 2011, an influx of foreign nationals from African countries and Asian countries dominate the development and humanitarian sectors in our country, namely, the humanitarian sector and private sector (oil and non-oil businesses).
The South Sudan Women Intellectuals Forum has expressed concern over the reduction in the number of women in the national unity government and is calling on the government to respect the 35 percent quota allocated to women by the peace agreement.
Yei River County authorities are currently holding a 35-year-old man named Bosco in custody after a tragic traffic incident that occurred on Monday evening in Yei town.
A health official in Yei River County in Central Equatoria State has said the rate of HIV/AIDS infections in the greater Yei area has increased.
The National Legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the National Archives and Records Management Bill 2023 which was presented by the Ministry of National Museum and Cultural Heritage after it passed through the necessary stages.
South Sudanese citizens in the oil-producing area of Ruweng are worried about the oil pollution causing infant deformities and diseases.
The National Blood Transfusion Services Centre is encouraging eligible donors to give blood voluntarily to save the lives of South Sudanese with serious health challenges.
An official at the Ministry of General Education and Instruction has blamed the scarcity of secondary schools in some counties for the poor enrolment of girls in post-primary education.
The former Chief of Staff of the National Democratic Movement-For Peace (NDM-FP), Gen. Nicodemus Deng Deng Alur, who abandoned Dr. Lam Akol’s outfit and joined the government in Juba in 2019 has defected again and announced that he has joined Gen. Paul Malong Awan’s South Sudan United Front/Army (SSUF/A).
The head of the Episcopal Church in South Sudan (ECSS), Dr. Justin Badi Arama, and the leader of the breakaway faction of ECCSS’ Jonglei Internal Province, Ruben Akurdit Ngong, have agreed to reconcile after falling out in 2020.
The chairperson of the specialized committee for health in the Lakes State assembly has been suspended by the acting speaker due to allegations of corruption made by the state commissioner of the revenue authority.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) has pledged to support the journalism club at Juba Girls Secondary School which was launched last Friday to encourage girls to join the profession.
At least eight primary school headteachers were arrested over the weekend after they snubbed a screening exercise by the state education minister in Yirol West County in Lakes State.
A vaccination campaign targeting 790,000 cattle is underway in Pibor and Verthet counties, a Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) agriculture and animal resources minister said.
Five ministers, including a woman, and two chairpersons of independent commissions were sworn into office on Monday in South Sudan’s Warrap State government. The ceremony took place at the Secretariat General.
Pupils at 21 primary schools in Koch County of Unity State take their lessons under trees, struggling with morning chills, enduring rains and the scorching afternoon sun.
The Juba City Council (JCC) has ended its contract with East Africa Go Green Company Limited, the company that was contracted to handle solid waste management in Juba.
Government officials and partners in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State convened on Friday to discuss pressing issues concerning Sudanese refugees, South Sudanese returnees, traffic violations, crime statistics, and the security situation.
Members of Parliament were Monday, June 12 engaged in a heated debate on lowering the cost of electricity in Juba.
As prices of essential commodities rise due to a combination of poor harvest and hyperinflation, many poor families teeter on the edge in Jur River County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
Two engineers working for the telecom firm MTN South Sudan were over the weekend injured when their vehicle was ambushed in Yei River County, a local official said.
Cattle keepers and their herds began leaving the Mundri area following an order by Western Equatoria Governor Alfred Futuyo.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Aweil Civic Engagement Center (ACEC) have rolled out a six-month legal aid program to help women, girls, and other vulnerable groups who have cases before local courts in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The Norwegian Embassy in Juba has contributed at least 1.85 million U.S. dollars as an aid package to South Sudan’s peace monitoring mechanism.
The inhabitants of Tiaptiap Payam in the north of Cueibet County in Lakes State are going hungry due to poor rainfall, insecurity and high food prices, residents said.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has expressed deep regret for the loss of life in the Malakal UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site and urged community leaders to continue to cooperate with all stakeholders to address both the triggers and the root causes of the violence, a statement said.
The South Sudan HIV/AIDS Commission with support from UNMISS is conducting a 10- day HIV/AIDS sensitization and awareness-raising workshop in Rumbek in Lakes State.
South Sudan’s Ministry of Petroleum has announced that the country is preparing to hold its 6th oil and power exhibition conference this week.
More than 20 staff members from the South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS) have successfully completed a comprehensive 10-day capacity-building training program.
On Saturday, a horrifying incident unfolded in Manyang Ngok Payam, Tonj South County, resulting in the tragic deaths of a husband and his pregnant wife. The authorities of Warrap state have reported that the couple was shot dead while they were sleeping.
In response to the persistent tension following renewed inter-communal violence, local authorities in the capital of Upper Nile State, Malakal, said they have taken steps to enhance security throughout the town. A night curfew has been imposed, and public gatherings have been prohibited.
Authorities in Koch County of Unity State said a significant number of individuals who fled the conflict in Sudan have arrived in the county amid a lack of food and non-food items.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir left for Djibouti on Sunday morning to attend a two-day, consultative tripartite meeting.
The commissioner of Pochalla County and his bodyguards were killed in an attack at the outskirts of the county headquarters, Pochalla town, on Thursday, police said.
Authorities in the disputed area of Abyei said they will dispatch a technical team after three individuals were reportedly infected by poisonous fish in Awal village on Thursday.
A member of the Eastern Equatoria State legislative assembly has levelled accusations against the Greater Pibor youth, claiming their involvement in the abduction of four children and the tragic death of a woman along the Lafon-Mogiri road this week.
In a significant achievement for land rights advocacy in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, the Alliance for Land Rights Organization brought joy to 137 venerable individuals in Wau by providing them with long-awaited land ownership certificates.
A group of women attending the launch of a women's empowerment project in Aweil town on June 9, 2023. (Radio Tamazuj)
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved 4.5 million US dollars for the completion of the construction of the Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism complex.
About eight public health facilities in Melut County of Upper Nile State have been hit by shortages of essential medicines and supplies needed for emergency care, said local health officials.
15 SSPDF officers have been arrested in connection with a fire at an ammunition depot in Rubkona County of Unity State on Thursday.
Nearly a thousand individuals have undergone free eye surgeries in Uror County in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.
The Republic of South Sudan's current constitutional governance is on the basis of a transitional constitution which came into force on 9th July 2011 as the supreme law of the land, following the successful conduct of a referendum vote on the right to self-determination by the people of South Sudan. The vote was to determine whether to continue with unity of the Sudan or amicably dissolve the union and create an independent state in the South. The latter choice became an obvious result, and today, we have a place we call our homeland.
South Sudan’s Vice President Dr. James Wani Igga has arrived in the Upper Nile State capital, Malakal town, on a two-day visit Friday.
Advisors of the Jonglei State government who were evicted from their offices on 30 May say they have since been discharging duties from their houses.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Thursday reopened its office in Akobo County, Jonglei State, for the first time in a decade.
The commissioner of Wau County in Western Bahr el Ghazal State has called out the SPLA-IO for allegedly abusing civilians in Baggari Payam.
The President of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) on Thursday asked the UN to extend training on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to journalists in the states so that they report accurately on the impacts of climate change.
The Sudanese government has declared United Nations envoy Volker Perthes "persona non grata", two weeks after the army chief accused him of stoking the country's civil conflict and sought to have him removed from his post.
Western Equatoria Governor Alfred Futuyo has ordered cattle keepers from Jonglei state who graze their animals in Mundri to return home.
The number of civilians killed in intercommunal clashes in Malakal camp in Upper Nile State has risen to at least 13, the UN Mission said.
Businesswomen founders and businesswomen have gathered in Juba for a two-day Women's Convention aimed at creating a forum for both groups to share experiences and learn from each other.
Authorities in Awerial County of Lakes State have issued an order cancelling the relocation of the old market to the new market in Mingkaman.
The Government of Unity State has commended the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for helping the state in controlling flooding in Bentiu town and Runkona County.
South Sudan's Vice President James Wani Igga cancelled a visit to Malakal town after violence erupted in the UN camp on Thursday morning.
At least three persons have been killed and more than 20 injured in inter-communal fighting in the UN Protection of Civilians (POC) Site in Malakal town on Thursday.
An 11-year-old boy died at Malualkon Hospital in Aweil East County in Northern Bahr El Ghazal State where he was rushed for treatment on Wednesday afternoon after being bitten by a snake while hunting with other boys in a nearby forest.
The Government of South Sudan and UN Women on Thursday launched a 2 million dollar project to strengthen women’s participation in politics and leadership in the country.
Inhabitants of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State have questioned how the governments at the state and national levels are prioritizing the allocation of resources.
The police in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State capital, Wau, on Wednesday, apprehended eight youths for holding a meeting to orchestrate a revenge attack on a rival youth group.
The administration of the South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) on Wednesday commissioned its new headquarters building in the capital Juba.
Four humanitarian workers were arrested by the opposition SPLM-IO forces before being freed in Baggari Payam of Wau County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, on Tuesday.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday met the leader of Agwelek Forces, Gen. Johnson Olony Thabo, and his delegation and appreciated them for responding positively and embracing peace, a statement from the office of the president said.
The High Court in Lakes State on Tuesday ordered the state’s minister of general education and instructions, Nelson Makoi Makur, to reinstate four teachers the latter dismissed last year.
The South Sudan Vice President James Wani Igga is expected to arrive in Malakal town, the capital of Upper Nile State, on Thursday.
Pope Francis was admitted to hospital on Wednesday morning to undergo an operation, prompting renewed concerns about the state of his health.
The Government of South Sudan has paid arrears of USD 4 million dollars membership fees and contributions to the regional body Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Assistant High Commissioner for Operation, Raouf Mazou, said on Wednesday that South Sudan has hit a dire milestone of 100,000 new arrivals of returnees and refugees fleeing the violence in Sudan.
The Eastern Equatoria State Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Tourism, in collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday launched a campaign to vaccinate and treat at least 275,000 livestock in the state.
Mabor Makuer Dhuol, a 50-year-old traditional wrestler in Cuei-Adukan Village of Rumbek Central County, called on the government to do more to promote wrestling as a sport.
The Norwegian Minister of International Development on Tuesday met with foreign ministers from 7 African countries including South Sudan’s Deng Dau Deng to discuss ways of protecting children from conflict.
The government of Jonglei State on Monday asked all investors owning lands in the state two weeks to have their title deeds reviewed or else face sanctions.
The Western Equatoria State government and the UN on Tuesday officially opened two maternity health facilities that were constructed by UNOPs in the Madebe and Manikakara areas in Ibba County.
A soldier identified as Akwer Kur, 22, attached to the SSPDF’S Fifth Infantry Division was on Tuesday killed by his brother in the Nazareth suburb of Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
Local officials and inhabitants of Alali Payam in Akobo County of Jonglei State have complained of hunger after spending months without food aid.
A one-week Abyei Peace Process Corridors Conference, under the theme, "Peaceful grazing, farming and stronger intercommunity relations and economic prosperity", officially opened in Noong village, 14 km West of Abyei town on Tuesday.
Three ministers appeared on Tuesday before Parliament after being summoned to respond to questions by the lawmakers on Investment Act 2009.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has installed a community radio station in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State.
Authorities have confirmed that suspected armed youths from Panyijiar County of Unity State were involved in violent clashes that left two cattle owners dead, four others injured and more than 60 heads of cattle raided in Lakes State.
Amer Ateny Alier, the Speaker of Jonglei State Legislative Assembly has been sworn-in, a month after her reinstatement.
Three humanitarian workers were attacked, stripped and tortured along the Lotome-Kikilai road in Budi County, Eastern Equatoria State.
Citizens of Eastern Equatoria State have been urged to restore the ecosystem and mitigate climate change effects by planting more trees.
The Wedwil community in Aweil West County of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal says it welcomes the opening of a new camp for Sudanese refugees.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has fired two undersecretaries of the finance ministry as well as the undersecretary of the ministry of health, state-run media announced Monday.
Four primary school teachers in Rumbek East County have been arrested for allegedly inciting pupils to strike and attacking officials and community leaders, a local official said.
The legislative assembly in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State on Monday reopened for the second session following a recess.
South Sudan’s minister of justice tabled the National Elections Act 2012 (Amendment) Bill 2023 and three other Bills before the parliament for debate on Monday.
Jonglei State government says it has given its civil servants who are outside the state three weeks to report to their workplaces or face dismissal for neglect of duty.
In South Sudan, it is known that from April to June each year, the farmers would be busy trying to make preparations before the beginning of farming activities. However, it appears that this rainy season's rain is arriving later than in prior wet seasons. This article attempts to highlight the more realistic agricultural potential in South Sudan, focusing on opportunities in this crucial sector and providing a concise analysis of its effects on households and overall economic conditions. It is based on my own lessons learned in the field of farming. Like many of my trained professional peers, I think each country's economy has its own internal constraints and features governed by the real economy.
Aweil West and Aweil North counties of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State are happy about the completion of the Nyamlel Bridge. The bridge is a crucial link for the movement of goods and services between the two counties, especially during the rainy season.
Eastern Equatoria State has witnessed artisan mine incidents over the last few years, often resulting in the death of several miners.
The director for Agriculture and Environment in Torit County of Eastern Equatoria State has called on municipal and county authorities to enforce local orders to combat a widespread menace caused by plastic bags.
Prison Service officers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have commended the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for successfully completing a three-day workshop that ended last Friday in Aweil town.
The opposition SPLM-IO said security agents had detained one of its senior members before being released in Ayod County of Jonglei State last week.
Five children who were abducted during last week’s attack by an armed group suspected to be from the Pibor area are still missing, a local official said.
Two students who were returning home from Uganda fell in an ambush and killed along the Ikotos-Budi road in Eastern Equatoria State on Wednesday, local officials said.
A two-year-old child who was knocked down by a car in Yambio town, Western Equatoria State, on Thursday has died.
The UN Security Council on Friday extended for just six months the United Nations mission in Sudan, after UN envoy Volker Perthes was accused by Sudan's military leader of stoking the conflict.
A South Sudanese court sentenced a Brazilian woman to two years in prison on Friday for transporting drugs into the country.
A man accused of killing his wife in Ezo County of Western Equatoria State on Tuesday night has been found and arrested, police said.
The South Sudan government on Friday said it would impose restrictions on the issuance of diplomat and special passports, citing misuse of such documents.
Households in Malakal town have to dig deeper into their pockets to buy essential commodities as prices sustain an upward trend in the area.
A government official in Magwi County of Eastern Equatoria State is calling for mechanized farming to boost production and address the problem of overdependence on imported food.
Hundreds of pupils in Rumbek East County of Lakes State on Thursday staged peaceful protests over non-payment of volunteer teachers’ salaries.
Eastern Equatoria state government, in collaboration with its partners, have launched a three-year strategic development plan for 2022-2024 with an estimated cost of SSP 82,400,164,020.
The Transitional Justice Working Group, a coalition of civil society organizations, calls on the government to operationalize the resolutions of the transitional justice conference.
The Warrap State legislative assembly on Thursday broke off for a three-month-long recess.
The US administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions in response to the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
A Kenyan government committee comprising 14 officials has arrived in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State to seek solutions to the looming Nadapal crisis.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday commenced a three-day training workshop in Aweil town of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, aiming to widen the understating of the prisons service officers on the existing laws, human rights values, including child protection, ethics and responsibilities.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), on Wednesday launched a three million US dollar Youth Leading Peace project in South Sudan aimed at promoting youth participation in peacebuilding processes.
“We have not taught pupils for four days because the state ministry of education does not want to pay us five months’ salary arrears,” said Santino Mature, a volunteer teacher in Rumbek East County.
South Sudanese are concerned over the alarming increase in prices of commodities and consumer goods in the capital Juba and the oil-producing capital, Bentiu.
A 6-day workshop on review of customary bylaws concluded in Duk County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State Wednesday, with legislative enactment on marriage and revenge killings.
Three men, including a wildlife service officer, were last week arrested for allegedly setting fire to Malek Payam headquarters and a school building materials in Gogrial West County of Warrap State, local officials said.
South Sudan’s Minister of Justice and the UK Ambassador to South Sudan on Wednesday discussed the implementation of the peace agreement, transitional justice and electoral processes.
Norwegian Ambassador to South Sudan Linken Nymann Benyman on Wednesday visited Western Equatoria State to assess projects funded by the Norwegian government in the country.
The UN Security Council voted Tuesday to extend an arms embargo and sanctions imposed on individuals in South Sudan, urging all parties to "avoid a relapse into widespread conflict."
Police in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State are searching for a man who is believed to have killed his wife in Ezo County on Tuesday night.
Police in Malakal town of Upper Nile State have imposed a night curfew and increased patrol efforts to maintain law and order following tensions sparked by deadly clashes there on Sunday.
Zain mobile phone services were made available on Monday in the Gadiang area of Jonglei State for the first time.
South Sudan’s finance minister Dier Tong Ngor on Tuesday appeared before Parliament to answer questions from members on the country’s biting economic situation.
Residents in Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal State are grumbling about the bad conditions of roads, as promises made by the president to build feeder roads are unfulfilled.
The Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) authorities in Warrap State on Tuesday said they received 10 households (60 individuals) over the weekend from the Aneet area which is contested by the community in Warrap State’s Twic County and the Ngok Dinka of Abyei.
The commander of the South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) in Unity State has lauded the efforts of the United Nations Peacekeepers in protecting civilians in the state.
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Members of opposition parties who hold ministerial positions in the Lakes State government have said they have poor working relations and constrained communication with their SPLM party counterparts due to a lack of political will on the part of the latter.
Sudan’s warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in parts of the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of the truce.
A man was killed and several others injured following a violent incident at the Malakal POC site in Upper Nile State on Sunday, the United Nations said.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday night sacked the undersecretary in the National Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and announced a replacement.
South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday unanimously passed the Social Insurance Bill 2023 to its third reading and directed the specialized committee on labor to conduct public hearings to enrich it before tabling it for further discussion.
The Kator High Court in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, has issued an order suspending a decision by Malakia County Court ordering South Supreme Airlines to compensate the families of the eight victims of the plane crash which happened in Pieri town in Uror County in Jonglei State in 2021.
It has been almost a year since South Sudan graduated its first batch of unified forces however soldiers from former rebel groups have complained that they are not paid salaries while their colleagues from the government receive pay.
Local authorities in Yei River County together with civil society organizations and religious leaders have last week came up with seven resolutions and six recommendations aimed at improving the relationship between the civil population and the army in the county.
Citizens in Pochalla County of the Greater Pibor Area say many families may suffer from hunger due to anticipated poor crop harvest this year.
Three people who were missing after a cattle raid in Tonj South County of Warrap state have been found, a local official said.
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Oyet Nathaniel, warned some ministers against snubbing summons by lawmakers, saying measures will be taken against any official refusing to appear before the assembly.
Security officials and journalists met in Juba on Thursday to discuss ways to cooperate with each other in providing information to the public.
Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has accused UN special envoy Volker Perthes of stoking a brutal conflict with paramilitaries.
South Sudan lawmakers have said they are in total darkness over how the shares of the oil-producing areas and communities are being used.
South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance on Friday reassured worried citizens that rising prices of everyday items, including edibles, would soon be brought under control.
Sudan’s Ministry of Defense on Friday called for veterans of the Sudanese army to take up arms in order to protect themselves from attacks from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
South Sudan’s cabinet has approved a 2023/2024 draft budget of 1.8 trillion South Sudanese Pounds, the information minister said.
The South Sudan Employers' Federation on Thursday called for the sacking of the country's finance minister, adding pressure on the government to deal with record inflation.
Police in Yirol West County of Lakes State have reported an incident where a woman committed suicide in the bush.
Monitors of the South Sudan peace process have expressed concerns over the lack of significant progress in the implementation of key provisions of the 2028 peace agreement.
Citizens in Malakal town of Upper Nile State are experiencing a severe shortage of food and rising prices of essential commodities due to the influx of those who fled fighting in Sudan, church leaders said.
Authorities in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, said they had arrested four youths suspected of involvement in an attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy on Tuesday.
President Salva Kiir on Wednesday night issued an order appointing a new member of the ruling SPLM Political Bureau, replacing the late John Kong Nyuon.
South Sudan’s Ministry of Gender and the World Bank on Wednesday launched a 70 million US dollars project to support female entrepreneurs in formalizing and scaling up their business activities and help survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) access vital services that will enable them to recover and rebuild their lives.
A 40-year-old woman was raped and stabbed to death by unknown criminals in Odikolong residential area in Torit town on Sunday.
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Sudanese envoy Dafallah al-Haj Ali arrived in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, this morning and met President Salva Kiir Mayardit.
An 18-year-old man was killed and five others wounded in an attack by suspected Misseriya raiders on a cattle camp in Mayom County of Unity State last Thursday, a local official said.
About 20 suspects have been arrested following inter-communal clashes that have claimed three lives in Lowoi Payam of Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State.
South Sudanese farmers producing vegetables and fruits have been urged to increase productivity and make sure they meet international standards in order to compete internationally.
Fighting could be heard in south Khartoum on Sunday as envoys from Sudan's warring parties met in Saudi Arabia for talks, Reuters reported.
A new report by a UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan says Juba has breached an arms embargo imposed on it in 2018 after it appeared to have recently procured new armoured personnel carriers.
The Ministry of Federal Affairs said it had been directed by President Salva Kiir to provide the necessary information for the citizens to know more about federalism.
Turkey will relocate its embassy in the capital Khartoum to Port Sudan after the ambassador’s car was hit by gunfire, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
Local authorities in Kajo-Keji County of Central Equatoria State on Friday affirmed their commitment to improving civil-military relations in the area.
Police in Juba said they had registered six cases of deaths under unclear circumstances last week, including four cases of alleged suicide.
The US and Saudi governments confirmed talks between the warring Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces would start in Jeddah on Saturday.
South Sudan’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs has requested over 4 million US dollars to respond to the influx of returnees and refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan, a senior official said.
South Sudan police on Friday said that their land in the Gudele 1 neighbourhood of Juba is being illegally occupied, directing all squatters who have invaded parcels of land to move out.
South Sudan’s Football Association said it is investigating the circumstances under which the U17 national team was disqualified from the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament.
Gunmen shot dead six people in Lacharok Village of Lafon County in an incident Wednesday that appeared to be a revenge attack, local officials said.
A man was killed and another one injured, while 11 children and a woman were abducted in an attack on an island in Duk County in Jonglei State on Tuesday, a local official said.
The United Nations and aid agencies in South Sudan on Thursday appealed for 96 million US dollars to assist people fleeing conflict in Sudan across the border into South Sudan.
and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) office in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State said it recorded high numbers of Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees who escaped the conflict in Sudan.
Hundreds of people surrounding the Abalwa block of Torit municipality in Eastern Equatoria state are seen collecting expired and disposed seeds as food.
A committee formed by the government of Central Equatoria State to investigate the status of Zain playground has discovered that the land in question is not a public property, as alleged by members of the public, but a community property that was sold out since 2012.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday relieved Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel from membership to the board of directors of South Sudan’s government-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet). The decree was read on South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC).
Several South Sudanese families who fled the conflict in Sudan said they sold their clothes, bed sheets and other properties for money to pay for transport.
At least four cattle traders were killed and another one injured in a road ambush by bandits in Uror County of Jonglei State on Tuesday, police said.
The Press Secretary for President Salva Kiir Mayardit, Ms. Lily Adhieu Martin Manyiel, has reiterated her commitment to working together with media stakeholders to accredit journalists to the state house in a bid to ease access to information from the country’s first office.
The reproductive health clinic in Mingkaman town of Awerial County in Lakes State is in crisis following a downsizing caused by a lack of funds.
The Ministry of Justice on Wednesday launched an electronic registration for businesses aimed at upgrading the system of business registration to a level that is digitalized so that everybody can access registration of businesses online.
Warrap State Ministry of Health on Wednesday revealed that malaria statistics showed close to two million cases in the last three years.
A team of national legislators and senior officials from the national Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare arrived in Western Equatoria State capital Yambio on Tuesday to assess responses by government institutions to the problem of Gender Based Violence (GBV).
A state ad-hoc committee tasked to investigate rampant pollution caused by unlawful dumping of waste into the river Nile within Juba has unveiled its preliminary findings to the Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Tuesday.
Lainya County of Central Equatoria State on Tuesday evening launched its first-ever solar power system in the town.
As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, journalists in South Sudan have said they still find it difficult to tell the truth and access public information from key public institutions.
South Sudan has received nearly 50,000 people fleeing the deadly conflict in Sudan, mostly South Sudanese, government and humanitarian partners said.
As South Sudan marks World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, most people say there is no freedom for media when it comes to advocating for the basic rights of citizens.
Sudan's warring factions on Tuesday agreed in principle to a seven-day ceasefire pushed by South Sudan, according to a South Sudanese official.
Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) director for Rubkona County in Unity state, William Bakuony, said 451 individuals fleeing the conflict in Sudan have arrived in Riokrial Payam.
Civil Society Organization representatives and participants from various institutions demand that the Lakes state government promote public accountability and transparency.
The Embassies of the United States of America and of the United Kingdom in Juba on Tuesday renewed calls demanding that the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU) investigate the 2017 killing of journalist Christopher Allen when he was embedded with the SPLA-IO in Kaya in Central Equatoria State.
The minister of state for labor, employment and industrial relations in Uganda was on Tuesday morning shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was entering his official vehicle to go to work.
A man shot two people dead, injured three others, and later shot himself dead in a market in Duk County in Jonglei State on Sunday, local officials said.
About 53 gardens were destroyed by elephants in Kerepi Village of Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State on Sunday.
The United Nations warned on Monday that 800,000 people may flee Sudan amid intensive fighting by rival military factions.
The health ministry Unity State over the weekend confirmed cases 20 cases of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) after blood samples sent to Juba for testing returned positive.
A woman and her six-months-old baby who were abducted when armed youth from Jonglei State invaded parts of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) last December were on Friday rescued from their captors during a recovery mission in Jonglei State’s Nyirol County, authorities said.
The local authorities in Eastern Equatoria State’s Lafon County have said the death toll of the weekend’s ambush in the Locharok area on vehicles transporting delegates from a peace dialogue has risen to eight.
A South Sudan Prison Service warder identified Sergeant Deng Kuol, 30, on Friday committed suicide while on duty in Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
The Ad Hoc Committee of the Council of States formed to investigate the root causes of the fighting between the Ngok Dinka of Abyei and Twic Dinka of Warrap last week recommended the deployment of forces under the command of a neutral officer to the disputed areas of Agok and Anet.
Teachers employed by the government in Greater Pibor Administrative Area’s (GPAA) Pochalla County say they have not been paid their salaries since the end of 2021 following a demand by Pochalla’s Anyuak community for a separate administration.
The police in South Sudan’s Warrap State over the weekend said they have recorded 30 cases of gender-based violence (GBV), including 3 cases of unnatural offenses, since January 2023.
Two Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) members from Western Equatoria State have called for the removal of Governor Alfred Futuyo Karaba citing insecurity in the state since his appointment.
The education ministry in Jonglei State has stopped teachers employed by the government from moonlighting in private schools, citing poor performance.
A group of gunmen on Saturday morning ambushed two vehicles carrying delegates of a peace dialogue initiative in Lafon County of Eastern Equatoria State, local officials said.
Engineers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have completed the rehabilitation of two bridges along the Wau-Raja road in Western Bahr el Ghazal State.
After a quarrel with his wife, a man committed suicide on the outskirts of Torit town of Eastern Equatoria State on Friday.
Sudan’s former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has warned that the conflict in the county could deteriorate to one of the world’s worst civil wars if it is not stopped early.
A disagreement among the peace parties over the middle command structure is delaying the deployment of the unified forces, a government official said.
A Juba court on Thursday adjourned the court hearing of a man accused of murdering his wife to 4 May.
South Sudan’s cabinet has approved a joint taskforce for coordination and implementation of the constitutional-making process and electoral programs with the UN mission, a government official said.
The minister of youth and sports in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Wednesday issued an order banning electoral processes for youth unions in counties until further notice.
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has affected South Sudan’s oil sector, a South Sudanese minister said on Friday.
South Sudan has proposed direct talks between Sudan’s military leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
A cargo plane carrying passengers crashed-landed at Juba International Airport on Friday morning. All passengers are safe, according to the airport manager.
A Turkish evacuation plane was fired at in Sudan on Friday, with the Sudanese army claiming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that it is battling were responsible.
South Sudan’s Urban Water Corporation and Juba City Council on Thursday said they plan to reduce water prices in the capital Juba.
The Commissioner of Juba County in Central Equatoria State on Thursday reopened the County Legislative Council after two years of closure.
Different groups of women in Eastern Equatoria State have come together and formed a body to advocate for policies that promote gender equality and women’s rights in the state.
Legislator Juol Nhomngek has vowed to challenge his suspension by Speaker of the National Legislative Assembly Jemma Nunu Kumba, saying the Speaker has overstepped her powers.
Rival factions of Sudan's military have agreed to renew a three-day ceasefire, shortly before it was due to expire.
Parliament in Jonglei State has resumed sittings today after a long break that started in October 2022, with lawmakers promising to prioritize service delivery.
South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) soldiers stationed in Butagok Payam in Awerial County in Lakes State on Tuesday manhandled and gave a midwife supervisor 150 strokes of the cane leading to severe injuries on his backside.
An elderly man was seriously injured and his two sons abducted when they were ambushed in Uror County in Jonglei State on Wednesday, a local official said.
At least 25 secondary school teachers from three schools in Torit Municipal Council in Eastern Equatoria State are undergoing a three-day training in peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Torit Town.
The residents of the Abyei Administrative Area have reported a spike in commodity prices due to the ongoing fighting between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in Sudan.
A three-day civil-military dialogue kicked off on Wednesday in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State to promote stability and boost social cohesion among the politically divided communities and returnees.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) on Wednesday completed a two-day training workshop in investigative journalism for its first cohort of 30 scribes in Juba.
The Eastern Equatoria State health ministry and international partners on Wednesday launched a campaign to check the resurgence of measles, Vitamin A deficiency, and to deworm children across the state.
The Government of South Sudan and the World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday signed a three-year Letter of Understanding (LoU) worth USD 3.7 billion to improve food security in the country.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday urged the warring parties in Sudan to ceasefire for three additional days so that civilians can access food and health services.
The Carter Center has said South Sudan has recorded at least 5 new guinea worm cases out of the 13 reported worldwide.
At least 52 patients underwent successful eye operations in Lafon County in Eastern Equatoria State on Tuesday. after the health ministry and the Carter Centre on Monday started a one-week surgical camp to treat cases of trichiasis and, trachoma and cataracts.
A journalist working for a community radio station in Yirol West County in Lakes State was over the weekend arrested by the police, his colleague said.
The youth across Yei River County in Central Equatoria State have been trained in leadership skills and urged to be agents of change in society.
Two local youth were killed and two others injured in clashes with cattle raiders in Uror County in Jonglei State on Tuesday, local officials said.
The health ministry in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Monday launched a weeklong measles vaccination campaign targeting some 259,733 children from 6 months to 5 years of age.
The teaching staff at South Sudan’s public universities will receive their two months’ salary arrears this week, a finance ministry official has said.
Sudanese ex-official Ahmed Haroun, who served under Omar al-Bashir, said that he and other former officials of Bashir's government had left Kober prison.
With violence and chaos engulfing Sudan, South Sudan authorities and their partners are braced for a wave of refugees and returnees in search of safety and functioning basic services.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said there was a “high risk of biological hazard” in the Sudanese capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized a national laboratory holding measles and cholera pathogens and ejected the technicians.
The minister of agriculture in South Sudan’s Warrap State on Monday said his ministry plans to revive the Akon South rice scheme in this year’s agricultural season.
President Salva Kiir on Monday chaired a National Security Council meeting to discuss the violence in Sudan and the recent clashes between the organized forces and some elements along the border with DR Congo and Central African Republic.
At least three men were killed and two others injured following a fight over a girl in Lowoi Payam of Torit County, Eastern Equatoria State, on Monday.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Friday donated 35 million South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) to finance developmental projects in Kajo-keji County, a local official said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says warring parties in Sudan have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire from midnight (22:00 GMT) on Monday.
A two-day forum that brought together commissioners from the eight counties of Lakes State and senior officials last Friday concluded their discussions with clear resolutions on how to address challenges facing the state.
Pope Francis on Sunday called for dialogue between warring military factions in Sudan as a bloody outbreak of fighting entered a second week.
Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore last Friday called on the Muslim community to follow correct procedures and present their complaints to the State Ministry of Physical Infrastructure. The governor said this would help the Muslim community regain their land that has been occupied by different members of the organized forces.
Sudanese citizens in Juba are calling on rival military factions to immediately cease hostilities, and restore peace through dialogue.
Several residents of Jonglei State capital, Bor town, have decried the rising prices of basic commodities amidst the country’s runaway inflation.
A group of concerned citizens in Juba, South Sudan have launched a fundraising campaign to aid the evacuation of South Sudanese nationals who are stranded in Khartoum, Sudan since the conflict that erupted there mid-this month.
At least two people were killed, another one injured while seven others went missing following an attack on a group of passengers in Bor County of Jonglei state on Sunday, a government official said.
France has begun to evacuate its citizens and diplomatic staff from Sudan, where fighting has entered its second week, the foreign ministry said Sunday.
The U.S. military completed an evacuation of the American embassy in war-torn Sudan, President Joe Biden said late Saturday evening.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced it is ready to partially open all of the country's airports to air traffic to enable other countries to evacuate their nationals.
Ministry of Health in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Wednesday said blood samples taken to laboratories in Juba for testing have shown positive results for Hepatitis E virus (HEV). The ministry has now declared an emergency in Wau.
An SPLM party-nominated member of the human rights commission in Lakes State has resigned after accusing Governor Rin Tueny Mabor of violating fundamental rights.
The humanitarian community in South Sudan is calling on regional and international stakeholders to push for a cessation of hostilities, safeguard human rights, and establish humanitarian corridors out of the worst-affected areas as the conflict in Sudan enters its sixth day.
At least 9 people were killed and 14 others injured in a road ambush in Duk County in Jonglei State on Thursday, a local official said.
The South Sudanese members of the National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) on Thursday urged President Salva Kiir to intervene and ensure their allowances are paid.
The authorities in Warrap and Lakes states have said 10 people were killed and 19 others wounded on Monday following an attack on a cattle camp in Tonj East County in Warrap State.
Forty people, most of them children, who spent months separated from their families were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday and flown home to be reunited with their families.
The Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly (RTNLA) on Wednesday sent back three provisional orders which were supposed to be tabled by Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Ruben Madol to the latter’s ministry saying that their time had constitutionally elapsed.
The United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) has welcomed efforts by the Ngok Dinka and Twic Dinka communities to find a peaceful resolution to the inter-communal violence that has threatened the peace and security in the southern part of the Abyei Box and northern Warrap State of South Sudan.
The Government of South Sudan on Thursday called on the warring Sudanese forces to protect the crude oil pipeline infrastructure.
A member of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly on the SPLM-IO ticket representing Lakes State has vowed to never apologize over charges of alleged corruption that he has levelled against the House Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba. Legislator Juol Nhomngek has said he will not withdraw the corruption allegations either.
The minister of general education in Lakes State has ordered the immediate closure of three secondary schools and the detention of two teachers for allegedly withdrawing and misappropriating capitation grants without consulting his ministry.
Highway robbers on Tuesday Killed a National Security Service officer identified as Sebit Ohiri in the Tutumore area of Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State.
Unity State has emerged as the best-performing state in the just released 2022/2023 Certificate of Primary Examinations (CPE) while Jonglei State had the best-performing school and the best male candidate.
The Muslim community in Eastern Equatoria State last Tuesday demanded that South Sudan People’s Defence Force (SSPDF) soldiers occupying mosques in Torit main barracks must vacate those places of worship.
The first Egyptian Armed Forces personnel apprehended in Sudan have returned to Cairo on board the Egyptian Air Force plane.
The Embassy of Pakistan in Sudan has been hit by bullets amid clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces.
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces agreed on Wednesday to a 24-hour ceasefire starting at 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) following a days-long power struggle and violent clashes with the army.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said the violence that broke out in Sudan on Saturday had claimed 270 lives while about 2,600 people had been injured.
South Sudan government said on Tuesday that about 2.6 million people had been affected by heavy floods in the last four years.
Yei River County health department has this Monday revived its Drug Management Committee.
Warrap state capital Kuajok is in a celebratory mood following the announcement of a subsidy that has seen a fifty percent reduction in the price of sorghum. Residents said that they could now afford this staple food.
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Deng Dau Deng Malek has assured South Sudanese and the international community that the country’s airspace is safe. Deng Dau is also the acting minister of Foreign Affairs.
Members of the South Sudan Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) are collecting signatures to impeach Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba over the alleged misuse of public funds.
The South Sudan Ministry of General Education on Monday called on local authorities to enforce laws and regulations aimed at eliminating and preventing gender-based violence against women and girls.
A coalition of women lobby groups has petitioned South Sudan's justice ministry demanding justice for 18-year-old Mary Akuot Agany whose eyes were gouged by her father in Warrap State a fortnight ago.
Two herdsmen were killed and about 80 head of cattle stolen during an attack by armed men in Uror County of Jonglei State on Saturday, officials said.
The South Sudan National Police Service said Monday that they had arrested 44 criminals suspected to have been involved in a robbery and theft of motorcycles in operation in Juba over the last two weeks.
A US diplomatic convoy was fired on by gunmen believed to be affiliated with the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Tuesday.
The EU's ambassador in Sudan, Aidan O'Hara, has been attacked at his home in Khartoum, which is gripped by fighting between rival forces.
The authorities in Budi County in Eastern Equatoria State on Friday handed over two boys who were abducted by rustlers who stole 300 head of cattle from Kapoeta South County on 6 April.
The Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the German Federal Foreign Office has urged peace partners in South Sudan to implement the peace agreement to the letter and respect fundamental freedoms.
The spokesperson of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) has said the government will only deploy the Necessary Unified Forces who were passed out across the country after the middle command of the army has been restructured and unified.
Wildlife authorities in Jonglei State have arrested 5 poachers in an ongoing campaign to check the widespread vice by locals.
Four herdsmen were killed and 2 people were injured during an attack by armed men suspected to be from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) in Jonglei State’s Nyirol County on Thursday, local officials said.
The number of casualties resulting from clashes between Sudan's regular army and paramilitaries has now risen to at least 97, with numerous others sustaining injuries, the doctor’s union said.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Eastern Africa (IGAD) will send presidents of Kenya, South Sudan and Djibouti to broker a ceasefire in Sudan.
South Sudan and Egypt on Sunday offered to mediate between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid fighting between the two forces.
The World Food Programme temporarily halts humanitarian work in Sudan after three staff were killed.
The workers’ union at the University of Bahr el Ghazal in Wau on Friday suspended their strike till 26 April.
The University of Juba Vice-Chancellor Professor John Akec has threatened to resign from his job and start trading in forex and currency trading if the finance ministry fails to pay him and other academics the new improved salaries approved by the government.
The Eastern Equatoria State Legislative Assembly on Friday closed its second session and went on a two months recess.
At least 56 people have been killed as Sudan's armed forces battled the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for control of the country, according to the Sudanese Doctors' Union.
A commander of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has confirmed that fierce fighting is ongoing around the army headquarters, military guest house, airport, and the residence of the army chief, Gen. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is the leader of the ruling Sovereign Council and de facto head of state.
The Sudan Central Doctors Committee has urged the warring Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan Rapid Forces (RSF) to respect international laws and treaties and allow people who have been injured during Saturday’s fighting access to medical facilities.
President Salva Kiir on Friday revoked the appointment of two members of parliament representing the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA).
Sustained gunfire and explosions have been reported as clashes broke out between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the powerful militia Rapid Response Forces (RSF) on Saturday morning in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Passenger and goods drivers’ vehicles have resumed plying the Juba-Bor road after it was closed for a couple of days due to attacks on vehicles.
The Turkish Embassy in South Sudan on Friday distributed 200 Ramadan food packages to vulnerable Muslims in South Sudan.
The national council of ministers on Friday approved the National Elections Act 2012 (Amendment) Bill 2023 and directed the Justice Minister to table it before parliament for deliberation.
The commissioner of Kapoeta East County in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State has warned of fresh conflict between the Toposa and Turkana pastoralists from Kenya after the latter entered South Sudan territory with their herds earlier this month.
As cases of drug and alcohol abuse among young people spike in Juba City, Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony has directed the state ministry of health to ensure hospitals and clinics operating in the city do not sell medicine to people without doctors’ prescriptions.
The Government of South Sudan has since Wednesday deployed the SSPDF along the Juba-Bor road to contain attacks on travelers and reopen the highway, police spokesperson Major General Daniel Justin said Thursday.
The authorities in Unity State have confirmed that four excavators for cleaning River Naam have arrived in Bentiu from Juba.
The residents of Raga County of Western Bahr el Ghazal State have urged the state parliament to lift the suspension of Commissioner Addison Arkangelo so that he can resume his duties in the county.
The driver of a tipper truck that was transporting river sand to Rumbek town in Lakes State has been arrested over an accident that left a 3-year-old girl dead in Pul-Kuc in Rumbek East County on Wednesday.
A Ugandan woman who was found guilty of trafficking heroin has been sentenced to seven years in prison in South Sudan’s capital Juba.
The newly-built main gate of the transitional national legislative assembly was today inaugurated by Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba.
Sudan´s military warned Thursday of a potential confrontation with the country´s paramilitary force, which it said deployed forces in the capital and other areas.
The South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday that the Population Estimates Survey (PES) which was released last week will not be used for the elections scheduled for 2024.
An official in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State government has said South Sudanese refugees in the Central African Republic (CAR) are fleeing from violence there and returning home with scores arriving in Raga County.
The government of Lakes State on Wednesday started the distribution and sale of 15,000 bags of sorghum at a subsidized price of SSP 25,000 for each 90-kilogram bag to local citizens.
Local authorities in Lainya County said a delegation led by UNHCR’s Deputy Country Director Murekeyison Juliet on Tuesday visited the newly constructed maternity ward at Jamara Boma Primary Health Care Centre in Kupera Payam in Lainya County, Central Equatoria State.
The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Ruben Madol, on Wednesday, tabled three bills in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) after they were passed by the council of ministers.
The governor of Lakes State on Tuesday issued an order suspending the minister of labor and public service, Jok Ayom Majak, and in a separate order relieved the director general in the ministry of information and communication, John Madol Panther.
A 60-year-old man identified as Luciano Lotwok died after being bitten by a snake in Ifune village in Imotong Payam of Ikotos County in Eastern Equatoria State on Monday.
The spokesperson of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), who also doubles as the chairperson of the house’s information committee, on Wednesday told opposition lawmakers to desist from and abandon their plot to impeach Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba.
Mary Akuot Agany, a minor who was deliberately blinded by her father, in Abiook Village in Tonj East County, Warrap State, has been airlifted to Juba for specialized treatment by a businesswoman.
A helicopter operated by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) crash-landed at Juba International Airport (JIA) on Wednesday morning shortly after take-off but none of the passengers and crew were injured according to an airport official.
A group of rebel outfits and opposition entities who are not signatories of the peace agreement last week formed a new alliance dubbed the South Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SSFDA) in Khartoum, Sudan.
Local authorities in Mayiendit County in South Sudan’s Unity State on Monday confirmed that they are holding three men, including a policeman, on charges of stealing sorghum meant to be distributed to vulnerable people.
At least 3 passengers were killed and four others injured in separate attacks along the highway linking Bor town in Jonglei State to the capital, Juba on Tuesday.
Hundreds of residents have been left homeless in Pochalla town in Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) after strong high winds destroyed homes in the town on Saturday evening.
At least two youths identified as Gabriel Omuno and William Ohoru Ongee have been arrested in connection with a recent killing of a man in Haforiere Village in Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State.
Anyuak community leaders have called on the government to evacuate four fishermen who were attacked by armed men over the weekend in Alali Payam in Akobo County, Jonglei State for better medical attention.
A policeman has been detained and is being investigated for battering the local county SPLM party secretary in the main market in Yirol West County in Lakes State on Monday.
The police in Tonj East County in Warrap State on Tuesday confirmed that they are holding a pharmacist who allegedly forcefully removed his daughter's eyes on 2 April.
It can be courteously articulated that the Republic of South Sudan has made substantial developments in the area of foreign engagement with other sovereign nation-states and non-state actors, especially over the last three years.
The police in Eastern Equatoria State have confirmed that a man was killed and two other men were injured during an ambush along the Kapoeta-Camp 15 road on Monday evening.
The deputy governor of Jonglei State, Jacob Akech Dengdit, on Tuesday, said the swearing-in of the newly appointed Bor County Commissioner Samuel Ateny Pech will take place as planned despite protests.
The authorities in South Sudan's Warrap State on Monday flagged off trucks loaded with sorghum to be distributed and sold to citizens in six counties at subsidized prices.
The family of Morris Mabior Awikjok, a political and human rights activist, who was arrested from his home in Nairobi, Kenya in February and taken to Juba said they have not been able to access him.
The authorities in Warrap State on Monday said that four people including a woman died in separate motor accidents in the last week across the state.
At least five people including four women were killed during the Easter celebrations last weekend in Eastern Equatoria State.
Police in Juba said they have arrested six students at the University of Juba for forging bank deposit receipts for tuition fees.
A group of local businesswomen took to the streets in Bor town of Jonglei State Monday to protest against the appointment of Samuel Ateny Pech as the new commissioner of Bor County.
A seven-member committee set up by Northern Bahr el Ghazal State’s Parliament to investigate the collection of state revenues has concluded its work and presented its findings on Wednesday.
A 30-year-old man was killed after a fight with unidentified persons in Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Easter Sunday, police said.
A fuel tanker belonging to Africa Resource Corporation (ARC) was on Saturday involved in an accident and caught fire in Cueibet County of Lakes State, police and an eyewitness said.
The United Nations has expressed concern over the current tense situation in Sudan following a delay in the signing of a final peace deal to resolve the country’s political crisis.
The Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) party led by President Salva Kiir on Thursday launched an exercise to register its members in Tonj East County of Warrap State.
A government official in the Abyei Administrative Area has said eleven commuters were ambushed and killed in Rumamer County on Friday allegedly by rebels loyal to General Stephen Buay Rolnyang, who leads the rebel outfit South Sudan People’s Movement/ Army (SSPM/A).
The local authorities in the restive Tonj East County in Warrap State on Saturday said they have apprehended at least 74 youths in relation to cattle raids and thefts.
The South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics (SSNBS) on Thursday released a new Population Estimation Survey (PES) which assessed the country’s population at 12.4 million.
The vice president in charge of the service cluster, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, arrived in Rumbek, Lakes State, on Thursday to assess service cluster institutions and find solutions to the challenges they face.
Three people were injured when a convoy of over 50 trucks and humanitarian vehicles came under attack along the Bor-Uror County road in Jonglei State on Thursday, a local official said.
Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore sacked his press secretary in a gubernatorial decree on Thursday.
A three-year-old girl was killed and five others were injured after a bee swarm attack in Torit County of Eastern Equatoria State on Thursday afternoon, local officials said.
At least two women were killed and a girl abducted while a man went missing during a road ambush in Nyirol County in Jonglei State on Wednesday, local officials said.
The peace conference between the Ngok Dinka of Abyei and Twic Mayardit of Warrap State which started on Monday in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State capital Wau concluded Thursday without the initially agreed resolutions being signed by the traditional chiefs of the belligerent parties.
The governor of Lakes State has ordered the mayor of Rumbek Municipality Council to register the people who were affected during the last month’s demolition exercise in the Akuac residential area in Rumbek town.
One person was killed and two others injured during a fight between prospective in-laws in Haforiere village of Hiyala Payam in Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State on Wednesday night.
South Sudan on Thursday appealed for international support to include the Sudd wetland in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
The Government of South Sudan has fervently but unsuccessfully tried to wipe the egg off its face and shake off accusations of endemic and entrenched human rights violations reported and documented by various rights groups, the UN, and civil society outfits among others.
President Salva Kiir on Thursday night made changes in the Jonglei State government, removing and appointing some constitutional post holders from his own party.
Workers, including teaching staff, at the University of Bahr el Ghazal on Thursday morning, started a sit-down strike to demand salary arrears for February and March, medical allowances, and air tickets as per the enhanced pay structure.
Civil servants held peaceful demonstrations on the streets of the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, on Thursday to demand unpaid salary arrears, a month after threatening to down tools if the state failed to pay them.
The Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs has urged the police across the country to arraign suspects in court within 72 hours of arrest.
The United Nations and South Sudan's Central Equatoria State government have agreed to conduct widespread registration of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) residing in the UN Protection of Civilian sites. (POCs), across the state.
The United Nations Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Solutions to Internal Displacement on Wednesday concluded a three-day visit to South Sudan during which he examined the IDP situation in the country.
The police in Lakes State have confirmed that they have arrested two men on suspicion of raping a 17-year-old girl on Tuesday morning in Ngop Payam in Yirol West County.
Lecturers and the non-academic staff association of Rumbek University of Science and Technology downed their tools on Tuesday, a week after they threatened to strike over unpaid arrears.
The commissioner of Uror County in Jonglei State said at least two people were killed and more than 2,000 head of cattle raided in separate attacks by armed youth in parts of the county on Monday.
This year’s International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action was observed at UNISFA Headquarters Abyei on Tuesday with a 5-kilometer run presentation of medals and trophies to deserving winners in the various sporting events.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday night reinstated the speaker of Jonglei State Legislative Assembly four months after he unilaterally sacked her.
A peace conference aimed at resolving the violent conflict between the Ngok Dinka of Abyei and their neighboring community of Twic in Warrap State is underway in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State capital Wau.
The Hiyalla community of the Otuho tribe in Eastern Equatoria State on Wednesday paid 35 head of cattle to the family of a Dinka man from Bor who was killed along the Torit-Kapoeta highway last year.
The authorities in Lakes State have confirmed that a Monday attack by armed youth in Tiatiap Payam in Cueibet County resulted in 146 head of cattle rustled, one person killed, and two others injured.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Western Bahr el Ghazal state government launched the Western Bahr el Ghazal Roadmap to Displacement Solutions Project to increase access to sustainable opportunities for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state.
Armed youth suspected to be from Ayod County on Sunday raided a village in neighboring Nyirol County in Jonglei State and stole at least 120 head of cattle, local officials said.
Landmines and unexploded ordnances still pose a serious threat to South Sudanese across the country, according to the UN Peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning on Tuesday launched a new official website aimed at enhancing e-government, sharing information, and promoting transparency and accountability in the public sector.
The internally displaced people at Wau’s Naivasha camp in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have said they cannot return home due to insecurity and lack of basic services.
Unity State Governor Dr. Joseph Monytuil has donated 1280 sacks of sorghum as food aid to at least 1124 people in Jaak Payam in Koch County.
The ministry of physical infrastructure, lands, housing, and public utilities in Lakes State and the office of the commissioner of Awerial County on Monday launched an exercise to survey land and allot plots in Mingkaman Town in Awerial County.
The police in Aweil town in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have on Monday morning announced the confiscation of large quantities of shisha, also known as hookah, smoking paraphernalia, and other items that were banned by state authorities.
The police in the Jonglei State capital Bor said an investigation is ongoing into last week’s killing of a National Security Services (NSS) officer by unidentified assailants In Bor town.
A 19-year-old woman was on Sunday shot dead while picking gathering coconuts in the Pacidi area of Lafon County in Eastern Equatoria State.
The head of the economics department at the University of Juba said South Sudan needs to stimulate and increase local production to strengthen the local currency against the U.S. dollar.
South Sudan’s Vice President for the Service Cluster, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, has given a four-week ultimatum for people squatting on school lands across the country to vacate.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Monday celebrated the many achievements of a five-and-a-half-year joint activity that began in 2017 and ended last month that improved the livelihoods, food security, and nutrition levels of 65,000 South Sudanese.
The Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs on Monday sent an additional 300 troops as part of the East African Community Regional Force to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EACRF-DRC) to join a peacekeeping mission there.
At least one person was killed and another one injured in clashes involving groups of youth from Chienit and Chiengkuoth clans of Pading Payam in Jonglei State’s Nyirol county on Thursday, local officials said.
A member of South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State Assembly is worried about the disruption of learning caused by the closure of about 20 primary schools due to heavy rains in Budi County.
Eastern Equatoria State recorded more than 400 cases of sexual gender-based violence in the last two months, a local official said.
The government of South Sudan through its ministry of foreign affairs has expressed disappointment over a renewed report by United States President Joe Biden titled, “Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to South Sudan”.
Senior South Sudanese government officials and military officers are implicated in serious human rights violations, a UN inquiry said Monday.
Four women and a three-month-old baby boy were held up at gunpoint and abducted in Nyirol County of Jonglei State on Friday, local officials said.
South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar has written a letter to the revitalized peace guarantors to resolve the standoff over the firing of defense minister.
Employees of the University of Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan on Thursday threatened to boycott work due to non-payment of two months’ salary arrears.
Authorities in Jonglei State on Friday announced the apportionment of large swaths of land in Bor town for the resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Pope Francis has arrived in St Peter's Square for Palm Sunday, beginning events leading to Easter, just a day after leaving the hospital.
Communities in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Thursday organized a cultural festival to promote peace, unity and diversity among the different ethnic groups residing in the state.
Officials of the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) met on Thursday and decided the next move after a stalemate over the firing of their own defense minister.
The council of ministers on Friday approved a proposed budget of about South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) 2.5 trillion for the fiscal year 2023/2024.
The Centre for Inclusive Governance, Peace and Justice (CIGPJ), in partnership with KARAMA, on Friday launched a three-year project to promote women’s meaningful participation in the peace processes in South Sudan.
The authorities in Lafon County in Eastern Equatoria State have said they are investigating the killing of a medical officer in charge of the Longiro health centre in the Lopit West area.
President Salva Kiir on Friday removed two deputies to the Secretary General of the Sudan People`s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and appointed their replacements.
The ministry of education in Warrap State has suspended three headteachers in Gogrial West County from the service for violating President Salva Kiir’s order not to charge fees in public schools.
A four-day peace conference between the Dinka Malual and Misseriya communities concluded on Thursday night with the signing of the resolutions in the presence of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State officials.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in collaboration with the Eastern Equatoria State government and partners on Thursday launched 10 quick impact projects.
South Sudan’s leaders must focus on meeting their commitments to the people of South Sudan to implement the peace agreement and make sustained, tangible progress to completing the transition to a permanent, elected government acceptable to the people of South Sudan, the Troika has said.
Warrap State governor Manhiem Bol Malek on Thursday held a peace meeting with the Twic community at Wunrok Payam.
The Water Institute of South Sudan in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, on Thursday graduated 16 students after they underwent an intensive one-month course in water management.
Lecturers at Rumbek University in South Sudan have issued a strike notice over unpaid two months' arrears based on the adjusted salary structure.
South Sudan’s government-owned oil company (Nilepet) was in the spotlight yesterday at an investment reception in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Peace monitors in South Sudan said as the second month of the extended transition period begins, a lot of work remains to be done if the roadmap timelines are to be adhered to as promised.
A victim of firing by security forces during the demolition drive around Rumbek Secondary School in Rumbek town succumbed to his injuries, a hospital administrator said Wednesday.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director for South Sudan Kate Crawford has launched the USAID Youth Empowerment Activity in Wau of Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Thursday.
General Chol Thon Balok was sworn in Thursday as the new defense minister, a day after President Salva Kiir appointed him through a presidential decree.
A South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) officer was shot dead on the outskirts of Kudo Center of Eastern Equatoria's Torit County on Monday.
The South Sudan humanitarian affairs and disaster management ministry Wednesday apologized for recent attacks on humanitarian convoys and workers across the country that have led to deaths and destruction.
A visiting European Union envoy to South Sudan on Wednesday urged the country’s political leaders to rapidly expedite work on drafting a new constitution ahead of elections scheduled for next year.
South Sudan’s senior presidential special envoy has survived a car crash in which three of his bodyguards sustained injuries, a local official said.
Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the Rome hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said.
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Wednesday appointed his new defense minister despite strong objections from the opposition party.
The governor of Eastern Equatoria State Louis Lobong Lojore Tuesday in a gubernatorial order suspended the state health minister Lodae Pasqual Loyakori and his director general, Dr. Etin Concord.
Western Bahr el Ghazal state has received 19 trucks of sorghum over the weekend from South Sudan's presidency, as part of efforts to reduce skyrocketing food prices.
About 529 men aged between 15 and 49 have been circumcised at Mingkaman of Awerial County in Lakes State since a voluntary medical male circumcision campaign started last week.
One person was killed and two others injured when military men deployed to supervise a demolition exercise in Rumbek town fired warning shots to disperse protesters.
Jonglei State Governor Denay Jock Chagor on Monday issued an order cancelling the eviction by former Bor town mayor Samuel Ateny of a businesswomen group from a section of the main market in Bor town.
An annual peace conference involving the Dinka Malual and Misseriya tribes is underway in Aweil town of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state.
Warrap State’s Minister of Health Abak Yel, who appeared before state parliament on Monday for questioning, failed to provide convincing explanations, MPs said.
Although the government is footing the costs of education, some administrators in Juba are in the spotlight for imposing fees on learners, the education ministry said.
Jonglei State Governor Denay Jock Chagor on Monday evening sacked the mayor of Bor municipal council and reinstated the suspended lands and housing minister.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked two county commissioners in Upper Nile State, citing powers in line with the 2018 peace agreement.
518 patients suffering from cataracts have a reason to smile after two organizations sponsored their treatment at Kuajok Hospital in Warrap State.
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday directed the Ministry of Finance and Planning to pay the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Monday directed the Ministry of Finance and Planning to conduct a national economic conference to address the economic crisis.
A rights group in Jonglei State has issued a one-week ultimatum to the governor to resolve a dispute over land. The group warned that it will file a lawsuit if the authorities don’t fix the matter.
The commissioner of Magwi County said they welcome investigations into the alleged blocking of supervisors during the ongoing secondary school leaving exams in the area.
An eight-year-old girl was killed and two adults injured in a crash involving a motorcycle and Tipper truck in Rubkona County of Unity State on Thursday, traffic police said.
A woman was killed and 12 others wounded when a hand grenade detonated in Malakal town of Upper Nile State on Sunday, police said.
The President of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan has reaffirmed the forces' commitment to moving forward with the framework agreement and the process of democratic transition.
Authorities in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State on Saturday launched a large-scale agricultural project to boost food production in the area this year.
Five herdsmen who went missing following last week’s cattle raid in Uror County in Jonglei State have been found, local officials said.
A decision by Jonglei State Deputy Governor Jacob Akech Dengdit to suspend the lands minister was aimed at quelling tensions sparked by orders issued by the minister in Bor town, a government spokesman said.
Women delegates from across Terekeka County in Central Equatoria State are calling on the government to give them the same opportunities as their male counterparts.
It was no rest for a South Sudanese female candidate who took her exams in a hospital — only three hours after giving birth.
The Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities in the disputed Abyei region concluded a peace conference in the Todach area of Ameth-Aguok County on Thursday.
Two days of tribal violence in Sudan's long-troubled Darfur region killed at least five people, tribal leaders and a rights group said Friday.
Pope Francis called for peace on Friday as he met delegations of the South Sudan government and the hold-out opposition group, after the mediation adjourned the peace talks in Rome, Italy.
South Sudan’s cabinet has scrapped the controversial provisions that allow the National Security Services (NSS) to arrest people without an arrest warrant.
Examiners marking the Certificate of Primary Education exams on Wednesday resumed work after the National Examinations Council paid their incentives.
The National Revenue Authority (NRA) on Friday launched the reconstruction project of the South Sudan Tax Academy aimed at developing the capacity of the institution’s staff.
The head of the association of farmers in Western Bahr el Ghazal State has called upon Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to buy agricultural seeds from farmers’ groups within the country.
Chiefs from Twic County in Warrap State and the disputed Abyei area have agreed to live peacefully and end almost two years of sporadic communal conflict that has killed hundreds and displaced people.
The Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has denied attempting to swindle SSP 12 million out of the parliamentary chest.
Three national ministers and deputy speaker who were involved in a road accident in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Wednesday have been airlifted to Juba for treatment, a local official said.
Scores of SSPDF soldiers who were injured in battles, also known as wounded heroes, on Tuesday closed ranks and charged the finance ministry headquarters in Juba to demand the expeditious payment of their medical allowances.
Egypt, through its embassy in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, has handed over a 1 KVA electricity generator to the national legislative assembly.
The authorities in Budi County in Eastern Equatoria State said they are investigating a shooting that led to the killing of two girls and a boy.
The Japanese government has given financial support to the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM) to help mitigate the acute budget deficit that the mechanism is currently facing.
The Minister of Justice and Director of Public Prosecutions are set to inspect the 12 police stations in Juba and the Juba Central Prison, in a bid to curb the overcrowding of inmates.
The Jikany Nuer Community in South Sudan’s Unity State on Sunday committed to ending retaliatory killings.
At least three people were killed, two others injured, and more than 2,000 head of cattle raided in an attack by cattle raiders in Uror County in Jonglei State on Tuesday, local officials said.
A number of national ministers and officials accompanying President Salva Kiir in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State were involved in a road accident on Wednesday evening, police and a local official said.
Another aid worker was killed in the Greater Pibor Area over the weekend, the latest in a series of incidents targeting humanitarian convoys and workers in the country.
The United States Department of State’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2022 was released on Monday by Secretary Antony Blinken, and it indicted government and opposition armed forces and their allied militia for grave human rights abuses in South Sudan.
The National Revenue Authority (NRA) has revealed that as of 15 March 2023, it had already collected SSP 124 billion from non-oil revenues eight months into the 2022/2023 fiscal year, surpassing the target set by the government.
Members of Parliament in Uganda on Tuesday night overwhelmingly voted to pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2023 which redefines and criminalizes different aspects of homosexuality and related sexual practices.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has urged the other peace partners to unveil their flag bearers in preparation for general elections.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party on Monday launched an exercise to register its members in Lowoi Payam in Torit County, Eastern Equatoria State.
A two-day women's conference aimed at electing new leaders and drafting a constitution for the Lainya County Women Association is underway in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State.
Senior SPLM officials in the capital Juba said that they were not aware of any harassment of and threats to opposition supporters in Tonj North County in Warrap State.
The Government of South Sudan on Tuesday restated its commitment to the Rome peace talks mediated by the Community Sant’Egidio.
Over 620 teachers marking the Certificate of Primary Education (PLE) examinations at the Teachers’ Training Centre in Juba have downed their tools following a disagreement over pay.
The United States Embassy in South Sudan on Monday joined other international partners in condemning the latest attack on humanitarians in the country.
The world isn’t heading for a water crisis. It’s already in one. In many places, water withdrawals exceed recharge rates. Climate change is causing droughts and floods all over the globe. Water bodies that support vital biodiversity and production of food, both aquatic and on land, are compromised by reduced irregular flows and pollution.
The South Sudan health ministry is set to roll out the second round of a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign targeting 1.8 million people across the country, a health official said.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Sunday told the people of Warrap State not to expect any kind of development in their area until they shun conflict, disarm, and cease inter-communal violence.
The South Sudan Certificate of Secondary Education Examination on Monday commenced across the country with a strong warning from the National Examination Council (NEC) against malpractice and cheating.
The Humanitarian Community in South Sudan has strongly condemned a targeted attack on humanitarian assets and staff in Jonglei State in which two people were killed and others seriously injured, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.
A leading South Sudanese civil society organization has reminded the political leaders of key benchmarks before making promises about the conduct of free and fair general elections next year.
The Sudan People Liberation Movement in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) in Warrap State last week accused their principal peace partner, SPLM, and by extension, the state government, of violating the peace agreement and derailing the implementation of the road map.
The commissioner of Uror County in Jonglei State has said two people were killed when a group of armed youths attacked an aid convoy along the Gadiang-Yuai road on Friday evening.
Citizens of Warrap State have too high expectations from President Salva Kiir’s visit to them. Kiir is in the capital Kuajok to attend the Catholic Church's centenary celebration.
The Federal Democratic Party led by Minister of Higher Education Gabriel Changson Chang on Saturday launched its political activities in Juba with a call for free political space.
At least 15 people were killed and two others injured, while several others went missing following an attack by gunmen on civilians at a fishing site between Ulang County and Akobo County last Thursday, local officials said.
Only 43 students, including 3 females, have been registered to sit for this year’s Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) examinations in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA).
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) recently celebrated the transition of the mission from a single country to a multi-national peacekeeping mission tagged UNISFA Multi-National Day.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Saturday said he is committed and determined to organise free and fair general elections in 2024.
The last two journalists of a group of seven detained over a video that went viral, which shows President Salva Kiir wetting his trousers, have been released, a media lobby group said.
President Salva Kiir left Juba Saturday morning for Warrap State, where he will attend the Catholic Church's centenary celebration.
Violence against civilians in South Sudan rose by two per cent during 2022, according to the latest annual report on Violence Affecting Civilians from the UN peacekeeping mission (UNMISS).
The Ministry of Education in Western Bahr el Ghazal State has urged teachers to adopt effective teaching skills and abide by their code of conduct while carrying out their duties.
The Medical Corps of the South Sudan people’s Defense forces (SSPDF), with support from the American research firm RTI International, on Friday, started conducting a voluntary circumcision exercise targeting 500 men aged 18-49 in Lakes State’s Awerial County.
A local government official in Panyijiar County in Unity State has confirmed that at least two people were killed on Wednesday evening by a suspect who was avenging his brother.
South Sudan’s Ministry of General Education has threatened to sue public schools that are still imposing school fees on learners, more than a month after they were abolished.
The Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) this week trained a group of journalists on media laws, reporting on gender-based violence and conflict in Aweil town.
A report by the UN Secretary-General to the UN Security Council titled “Children and armed conflict in South Sudan” has revealed severe abuses against children in the country.
The President of the Union of Journalists (UJOSS), Oyet Patrick, has called on journalists across the country to take digital security and safety seriously as they do their work.
The Ministry of Health in South Sudan's Lakes State on Friday declared a measles outbreak in Awerial County.
The Catholic Church-run Mary Help Hospital in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, has successfully completed surgical procedures on 129 patients.
The authorities in Lakes State and Warrap State have confirmed that a civilian and a soldier were on Tuesday killed and 3 civilians injured when suspected cattle rustlers clashed with security forces in Lakes State’s Cueibet County.
The World Bank has announced plans to rehabilitate the electricity power plants in Juba City and Yei town in Central Equatoria State to enable the population to access reliable and affordable electricity and to spur economic growth.
Legislators in the Eastern Equatoria State parliament are demanding accountability for over SSP 300 million, which was unspent from the assembly’s last fiscal budget.
Eight children were killed in Jur River County in Western Bahr al Ghazal State when a mortar round they were playing with exploded today morning, police and an eyewitness said.
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has launched phase one of its water supply system in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The local authorities in Nyirol County in Jonglei State have said that the residents of Langkien town are grappling with hunger, as they have not received food aid for months.
The European Union's Head of Cooperation in South Sudan, Gabriel Octavian Leonte, and UNOPS officials handed over a completed feeder roads project to the government in Kuajok town, Warrap State, on Thursday.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Tuesday conducted a civil-military relations forum in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State.
Farmers in Yei River County are calling on the Central Equatoria State government to support them by improving security and distributing seeds early ahead of the planting season in April.
South Sudan’s Minister of Information and Communications, Michael Makuei, is in Qatar to explore areas of cooperation in the fields of communications and postal services.
The commissioner of Akobo County in Jonglei State said the survey of the county headquarters, Akobo town, is ongoing despite an earlier order by the state’s land and housing ministry suspending the exercise.
Warrap State information minister says preparations are in high gear to receive President Salva Kiir in Kuajok on Sunday for the Catholic Church's centenary celebrations.
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The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan for another year Wednesday.
South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Wednesday unveiled a new official portrait of President Salva Kiir Mayardit to be used in all public offices in the country.
Residential areas and markets in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, are choking on uncollected garbage putting the health of citizens at risk.
A measles vaccination drive targeting more than 100,000 children aged between 6 months to 9 years is ongoing in parts of Nyirol County in Jonglei State amidst a spike in the cases of the viral disease since last October.
A three-day peace and reconciliation conference aimed at uniting members of the Jikany community commenced on Tuesday in Bentiu town in Unity State.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) on Tuesday evening said two more journalists who work for the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Cooperation (SSBC) have been released from the National Security Service’s detention facility.
A total of 88 nurses and nurse aides working at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) health facilities have graduated from its Academy for Healthcare program in Lankien in Nyirol County, Jonglei State after two years of study and clinical training.
South Sudan’s Parliament will pass the enhanced salary structure for civil servants and soldiers once it resumes its sittings on 27 March, the parliament’s spokesman said.
A post has been circulating on Facebook with claims that the former deputy minister of defense, Gen. David Yau Yau, has sneaked out of Juba with a convoy of more than 20 vehicles.
Two people lost their lives and three others sustained injuries when a Land Cruiser vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Awerial County of Lakes State, police and health officials said.
South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile has been appointed special envoy to South Sudan after President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined his functions in the government, according to South African media.
The Association of Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) on Tuesday started a three-day workshop in Aweil town to build the capacity of journalists in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The national minister of health has said the government has stepped up efforts in procuring essential medicine for all health facilities to fill the void left by the Health Pooled Fund (HPF).
South Sudan’s government and holdout opposition groups on Monday announced that political talks will resume in Rome, Italy, next week.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir sacked the defense minister recently – in a shocking move that sparked questions on the motive of the action.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ethiopian Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed on Monday discussed bilateral and regional issues of common interest.
The Bangladesh battalion of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers conducted a free medical campaign in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Monday.
South Sudan’s presidential advisor on security affairs, Tut Gatluak, received Monday at Juba Airport Sudanese officials, who had arrived on an official visit to Juba.
The African Union Mission in South Sudan (AUMISS), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Monday called on the unity government and all stakeholders to increase the momentum for the implementation of the peace agreement.
Sudan’s government on Monday morning dispatched a high-level delegation to South Sudan to push for peace and stability.
The national Minister of General Education and Instructions, Awut Deng Achuil, and a delegation of legislators are in Warrap State to promote girl-child education.
About 3,000 households in Dengjok Payam in Akobo County of Jonglei state remain in dire need of humanitarian aid since fleeing their homes over insecurity in December last year, officials said.
South Sudan's former Inspector General of the National Police Service, Lt. General Achuil Tito Madut, has died after a long fight against lung cancer, the family confirmed.
Nearly 130,000 people in the Horn of Africa are "staring death in the eyes" from catastrophic hunger, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
Sudan said Saturday it retrieved five nationals who had joined the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group in Syria.
A traditional chief in Jur River County of Western Bahr el Ghazal state has been admitted to Wau Teaching Hospital after being detained and beaten by SPLA-IO soldiers at Kuanya military base, his family said.
The Director-General at the Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism, Lt. Gen. Khamis Adiang Diing, has revealed that poachers outgun wildlife rangers and officers in South Sudan and that the vice of poaching is on the rise because communities have abandoned agriculture.
Over 15 journalists in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State have undergone training in investigative journalism and human rights reporting.
The South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) on Thursday handed over to Terekeka County of Central Equatoria State two new solar-powered water points that serve more than 2000 people with clean drinking water.
A Sudanese delegation is expected to visit Juba to meet with President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar in a bid to break the deadlock over the recent dismissal of Defense Minister Angelina Teny, credible sources said.
Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth has defended last week’s decision by President Salva Kiir Mayardit to fire the former Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs, Angelina Teny.
An Egyptian Company, BTC Global, launched the first and only gold refinery in South Sudan to buy and sell raw gold. The company will also mine, refine and export gold.
Authorities in Nyirol County in Jonglei State said they have recovered two abductees kidnapped from Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) during last year’s attack by an armed Jonglei State youth group in parts of GPAA.
A 25-year-old man identified as Okech Otto Olori, an employee of the Moti Orphanage Centre in Torit County of Eastern Equatoria State died by suicide after he shot himself dead on Thursday.
The police in Rumbek Central County of Lakes State are investigating circumstances under which a teenage girl was stabbed to death on Thursday.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted Wednesday to extend the existing sanctions and arms embargo against Sudan for another year.
The peace monitors, the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) Thursday said it welcomes the planned meeting between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar over the dismissal of the Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs.
The Women Union in South Sudan's Unity State has urged their government to fight gender-based violence (GBV) and increase their representation in different sectors to realize their 35 percent at the state level.
The authorities of Abyei's Rumamer's County have accused armed youth from Twic, Warrap State of raiding over 100 cows and killing one person, and torching houses in two separate incidents this week.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been urged to withhold the appointment of the ministers of defense and Interior until the two parties reach a consensus on the matter.
A meeting between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar to discuss the sacking of the defense minister will not take place as planned today, an official said.
Civil servants in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, protested Wednesday to demand salary arrears and called on the government to clear the unpaid two-month dues.
The UK on Wednesday announced sanctions against South Sudanese army general Gen. James Nando for his alleged role in gender-based violence in Western Equatoria State.
While celebrating International Women's Day on Wednesday in Wau of Western Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudanese women slammed the government for violating the 35 percent affirmative action.
The Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in Eastern Equatoria State says at least 1,979 returnees have arrived in Ikotos County and that the numbers keep increasing as they register new returnees daily.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Wednesday night dismissed his Foreign Minister Mayiik Ayii Deng, who has served in the role for only 18 months.
The Sudanese ambassador to South Sudan, accompanied by his staff, visited retired Anyanya war veteran and politician Joseph Lagu at his residence in Juba.
The US government joined the people of South Sudan in celebrating International Women’s Day, which is marked annually on March 8 to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.
The cross-border movement has resumed at the Nadapal border crossing following clashes between the Toposa of South Sudan and Turkana of Kenya after reported border clashes last month.
The National Ministry of Health on Tuesday declared an outbreak of cholera in Malakal town of Upper Nile State.
Sudan's paramilitary commander Gen Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, “Hemetti”, has criticized the ruling generals and said they oppose stepping down to allow a democratic transition under a civilian government.
A South Sudanese think-tank has released a weekly review saying that elections will likely be conducted nationwide by the end of 2024.
Trucks carrying commodities and other goods have started arriving in Panyagoor town, the headquarters of Twic East County in Jonglei State, from the state capital Bor for the first time in three years after flood waters ebbed.
Gen. David Reath Malual Lath, the presidential advisor for peace, passed away on Monday evening at the Primrose Hospital in Juba, First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny announced through a statement yesterday.
A mother and her two children who were abducted together with 6 other people in Mayom County in Unity State last month were over the weekend handed over by Warrap State authorities to a Unity State official in Juba.
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has found in its latest report that impunity is a major driver of the human rights and humanitarian crises in South Sudan which continue to cause immense trauma and suffering for civilians.
The national agriculture ministry, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN World Food Program (WFP), and the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday reported an improvement in cereal production in South Sudan in 2022 compared to the last five years.
The authorities in Lakes State have revealed that the death toll in last month’s clashes between armed youths from Rumbek North County of Lakes State and the Luacjang community of Tonj East County in Warrap State has risen to 151.
The police in Lakes State have confirmed that at least four people have been arrested in connection with the death of a 19-year woman in the Adior area of Yirol East County on Thursday last week.
The Lainya County Parliamentary Caucus in the national parliament on Monday demanded justice for the innocent civilians who were gunned down in Wuji Payam in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State on Saturday.
The current year will be a “make-or-break” one for South Sudan, marking the start of a recent — and singular — 24-month extension of its transition process, a United Nations official told the Security Council on Monday.
The head of the Joint Monitoring & Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has said that access to power, inclusivity, and effective participation for women in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement remains a challenge.
An activist has decried the shrinking number of women's representation and participation in the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU).
A meeting between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his First Vice President Riek Machar Teny scheduled for Monday has been postponed to Thursday, an official confirmed.
Central Equatoria State governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony has attributed the high rate of land-grabbing in the state to overpopulation in the capital city, Juba.
The East African Community Council of Ministers has endorsed the appointment of a South Sudanese and a Ugandan as deputy secretaries-general, the EastAfrican reports.
At least 12,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kajo-Keji County of Central Equatoria State have started receiving emergency relief food assistance in the last week, officials said.
The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) stationed in Western Bahr el Ghazal’s Raga County said armed Sudanese criminals over the weekend gunned down one of their soldiers while on patrol in the Siri-Malaga area west of Raga town.
The minister of roads and bridges in Western Bahr el Ghazal State recognized and rewarded five traffic police officers for their good work in controlling traffic in Wau town on Friday,.
The SPLM-IO faction led by First Vice President Riek Machar has written a statement asking for the sacked defense minister to be reinstated.
A herder was killed, another was reported missing while two others sustained injuries in separate attacks in Ayod County of Jonglei State on Wednesday and Sunday, local officials said.
Authorities in Warrap State on Friday declared three days of mourning following the death of former deputy minister of interior, General Salva Mathok Gengdit.
The SPLM-IO faction led by First Vice President Riek Machar revealed that President Salva Kiir’s decision to sack the defense minister was not made in a proper manner.
The General Court Martial (GCM) sitting in Juba on Friday sentenced Private Yak Garang Yak to death by firing squad after it found him guilty of killing three Syrian nationals and a South Sudanese boy in Akon Village in Warrap State in January.
The speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), Jemma Nunu Kumba, has threatened to drag a Sudan people’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) parliamentarian to court over an embezzlement allegation.
South Sudan Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare has announced that this year's International Women's Day will be commemorated in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal.
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) on Thursday convened its 27th monthly meeting in Juba and sounded an alarm saying that with the beginning of the 24-month extended Transitional Period, implementation of the Roadmap lags behind and a lot remains to be done.
The commissioner of police in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Tuesday announced a forceful crackdown on gangs, also known as niggers, in Wau town.
The King of the Anyuak and community elders have pledged to work with and support the Sudan People`s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party.
The national minister of cabinet affairs has raised doubts about the establishment of the Hybrid Court which is stipulated in the revitalized peace agreement.
Officials in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State capital Wau have confirmed that travel along the Wau County-Baggari road has resumed days after it was closed by elements of the SPLA-IO.
The National Transitional Committee (NTC), a body tasked to oversee the implementation of the 2018 peace deal, has been kicked out of the South Sudan Hotel for over $6 million in rent arrears.
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) says it is concerned over the unity government’s failure to operationalize the Constitution-Making Process Act 2022, warning that the delay undermines the process leading to elections.
A legislator at the Eastern Equatoria State assembly is worried over increased insecurity along the Mogiri-Lafon road.
The South Sudan government on Thursday secured $114.8 million in emergency funding support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the finance minister said.
Authorities in Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, have confirmed that 80 percent of the Jie community in Kapoeta East County have abandoned their areas in search of food and water.
More than 900 community health workers graduated after completing first aid approaches training in Kuajoc town of Warrap State.
A 20-Year old woman identified as Christine Ihideng was found hanging in her room in the Hai Battery residential area of Torit Town in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State.
South Sudan's Presidential Press Secretary on Wednesday demanded an apology and withdrawal of a report by The Sentry released late last year that claims to have uncovered massive corruption in the South Sudan National Security Service (NSS).
South Sudan’s former deputy minister of interior, General Salva Mathok Gengdit died on Tuesday morning at a hospital in Thailand, government officials confirmed.
The 70-year-old veteran politician got 37% of the vote, official results show, the BBC reports.
Warrap State officials say calm had returned to Tonj North County after joint forces were deployed in Majak Payam.
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) is condemning the movement of armed elements within the southern part of the Abyei Box on 28 February 2023.
An opposition legislator at the Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA) has accused Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba of intimidating opposition lawmakers to cover up financial scandals.
Police officials in Lakes State said that a young man shot himself dead in Rumbek Central County on Monday.
Warrap State's headquarters, Kuajok Municipal Council, has launched a clean-up campaign along the main roads, markets, and public institutions.
The Governor of South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State Louis Lobong Lojore is calling on the displaced members of Magwi county in refugee camps in Uganda to return home and rebuild their lives.
A middle-aged man was arrested by authorities in Rumbek East County of Lakes State for allegedly sodomizing two boys aged 12 and 9 early on Monday morning.
All President Kiir does is win all the time, even when he destroys Chollo's land. The King honoring Kiir outside of his kingdom has created a wrong impression that President Kiir is a President for life; in addition, by crediting Kiir for non-existent peace, the King, directly and indirectly, tells citizens of our Republic that their suffering is a direct result of rebellion against injustice in the country.
As results of Nigeria's presidential and national assembly election held on Saturday trickled in, opposition political parties cruising high begun calling for nullification in some parts of the country, the East African reports
The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces soldier accused of killing 3 Syrian nationals and a local youth in Akon Village in Warrap State today (Tuesday) pleaded guilty to all 3 charges brought against him in the army’s General Court Martial sitting in Juba.
The police in Yirol West County of Lakes State are investigating a case in which a woman is suspected to have killed her two children and then committed suicide over the weekend.
Amnesty International (AI), a global movement that campaigns to end abuses of human rights, over the weekend called on the South Sudanese authorities to expeditiously clarify the fate and whereabouts of Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak.
Following one of the worst measles outbreaks in South Sudan’s recent history, the health ministry, with support from its partners, plans to conduct a nationwide measles vaccination campaign across the country in March 2023, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a statement on Monday.
The administrators of Ugandan districts and South Sudan counties that straddle the common border between the two countries last week signed an agreement on joint management of security.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony and his Jonglei State counterpart, Denay Chagor, over the weekend agreed to collectively ensure that pastoralists from Bor return home.
At least five inmates have been ordained as pastors at the Torit Central Prison in Eastern Equatoria State on Sunday.
The National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) on Monday submitted the Bank of South Sudan Act Amendment Bill and the Banking Law Act Amendment Bill to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
In September last year, the Civil Society and Media - Strengthened Together and Advancing in New Directions (CSM-STAND) program, implemented by a consortium of global partners co-led by Pact and IREX, launched the Sustainable Independent Media Activity (SIMA) in South Sudan.
The press secretary in the office of the First Vice President has said that Dr. Riek Machar will visit several parts of the country to disseminate the peace agreement and hold prayers for peace after the deployment of the unified forces.
The Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan (ECSS), Justin Badi Arama, who is also the Chairman of the Global South Movement, has reiterated his firm position in withdrawing support for Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
About 320 internally displaced households from Abyei received assorted non-food items from the Japanese government through the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in Aweil town of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The Eastern Equatoria State government over the weekend declared humanitarian emergencies in the counties of Lafon, Budi, and Kapoeta East due to drought and fire outbreaks that have left thousands hungry and homeless.
A newly constructed mortuary was last week handed over at Wau Teaching Hospital in Western Bahr el Ghazal State after being built with funds availed by a Sudanese businessman.
The governance and economic clusters of the national government on Friday passed the Petroleum Management Amendment Bill 2023.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday approved four international conventions into law.
South Sudan on Friday became the first team in African basketball history to qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup in their first attempt, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) reports.
The local authorities in Mundiri East County in Western Equatoria State earlier this week started cracking down on a group of youth who have been tattooing themselves using a metal locally known as ‘Kansu’ which is heated on fire before being applied to the skin.
Authorities in Abyei Administrative Area on Friday said that two youths were on Thursday killed in Mabuny village in Alal County by armed youth suspected to be from Twic County of Warrap State.
The South Sudan men's basketball team, Bright Stars, are playing Senegal this evening with hopes to secure a ticket to the 2023 World Cup.
The youth of Pochalla County in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Friday started opening feeder roads across the county headquarters, Pochalla town.
The Malakia High Court in Juba has ordered South Supreme Airlines to compensate the families of the eight victims of the plane crash which happened in Pieri town in Uror County in Jonglei State in March 2021.
South Sudan's Vice President for Economic Cluster, Dr. James Wani Igga, has called on South Sudanese to diversify the country's economy through farming.
The NGO Forum has said that with the escalation of subnational violence across large parts of Upper Nile and adjacent areas of Malakal, the protection of civilians from violence as they try to seek refuge at the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site remains paramount.
The Minister of General Education and Instruction on Thursday announced that the Ministry of Finance and Planning had paid the first tranche of the capitation grant amounting to SSP 1 billion to schools.
The grieving Lopit Community, one of the Otuho-speaking tribes in Eastern Equatoria State, on Thursday laid Queen Juliana Oturo Odiongo, 90, after she dies last Sunday due to complications related to diabetes and old age.
Citizens across the country have lauded the decision by President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar to remove the powers of the National Security Service (NSS) to arrest a suspect without a warrant.
The government in collaboration with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and partners on Thursday launched a two-day livestock and agricultural exhibition in Terekeka County of Central Equatoria State.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in collaboration with the government of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Thursday launched a two-day workshop to strengthen the role of traditional leaders in the implementation of the peace agreement.
Parliamentarians from Unity State on Thursday said at least ten people were killed when bandits attacked a boat traveling from Juba to the Port of Adok in Unity State.
The number of people killed in the clashes between the Pakam community of Lakes State's Rumbek North County and the Luacjang community of Warrap's Tonj East County on Tuesday has risen to 36, officials said.
A post has been circulating across Facebook with claims that a South Sudanese Journalist, Garang John, has been released from detention; the post is false. Garang John is still in custody, according to his family members.
The Mayor of Juba City Council has pledged to reform the revenue collection system by city authorities and provide flexibility in their operation to strengthen the relationship between traders and the city council.
The U.S. government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Resilience through Agriculture in South Sudan Activity, has announced an addition $3 million for agriculture resilience programs in South Sudan.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Warrap State's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) have trained 50 people in Kuajok of South Sudan's Warrap State on how to receive and reintegrate displaced communities that fled floods, communal violence, and the civil war.
South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State ministry of finance, planning, and investment on Wednesday presented over SSP 5 million budget for 2022/2023 to the state assembly for deliberations.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday called on those still living inside the internally displaced person camps and refugees to return homes or resettle in Juba.
The Malakia Court in South Sudan's capital, Juba, has adjourned Wednesday’s session set for the final ruling on the case of the Pieri plane crash involving an airliner and the victims’ families, to Friday.
Several officials in South Sudan’s Jonglei State have warned of looming revenge attacks in parts of Fangak and Pigi counties by an armed group from the neighboring Upper Nile State.
The Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) who fled conflict in Tambura County in 2021, and are currently in Nagero County are pleading for humanitarian assistance saying they have not received any aid from the government or humanitarian organizations for a year.
The Minister of Information, Communication and Postal Services, Michael Makuei Lueth, on Tuesday, reassured the country that there will be no further extensions of the transition period in the future.
Authorities in Lakes State have confirmed that clashes between the Pakam section of Rumbek North County and the Luacjang community of Tonj East County in Warrap State have left at least 5 people dead and 18 others wounded as fighting continues in the Rumbek North County.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his First Deputy President, Dr. Riek Machar have agreed to scrap the powers of the National Security Service to arrest without a warrant of arrest.
More than 7, 000 returnees who have arrived in Longechuk County in Upper Nile State from refugee camps since late last year are suffering and lack food and social services, local officials said.
The local authorities in Kapoeta South County have said that 3 girls, aged 14 to 15, were on Tuesday morning shot and critically injured while they were fetching water in the Namurunyang area.
A new investigative report by The Sentry—the result of a three-year investigation into a loan deal between a local company and a regional bank, with the backing of the South Sudan government—has uncovered red flags for illicit business practices, including bribery, tax evasion, and trade-based money laundering.
The local authorities in Morobo County in Central Equatoria State have said the construction of a building to house the C court has started in the county.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake and a second measuring 5.8 have hit Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, terrifying those left in a region devastated by twin earthquakes two weeks ago, the Guardian reports.
Several residents in the Warrap State capital Kuajok have said they can barely afford to buy food from the market due to exorbitant commodity prices.
At least 213 houses have been on Monday burnt to ash leaving an estimated 1,000 people homeless in Lotobok Boma of Longiro Payam in Lafon County in Eastern Equatoria State.
South Sudan owes Germany’s multimillion passport printing company, Muhlbauer, 1.7 million U.S dollars, an official said.
A planned border peace conference which was to bring together representatives of the Dinka Malual and Luo communities of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State and the Rizeigat from Sudan’s Eastern Darfur State has been adjourned until further notice, a government official said.
Authorities in Lakes State have confirmed that at least five people have been killed and eleven others sustained critical injuries in intercommunal clashes over a disputed cattle camp in Awerial County.
At least 11 people have been arrested in Panyijiar County of South Sudan's Unity State in connection to last week's cattle raid in neighboring Lakes state, authorities there said.
Terekeka County Commissioner Warnyank Laku Buyu has warned young people across the county against bothering Dinka Bor cattle herders as they move out of Central Equatoria State.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has called on the Sudanese leaders to pursue the full implementation of the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan for the stability of their country and the region.
A total of 633 soldiers and 80 officers from the pioneering Ghana Battalion (GHANBATT) and Ghana Level II Plus Medical Unit (GHANMED) serving with the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), on Thursday received the prestigious United Nations Peacekeeping Medals at a colorful medal parade held at the Battalion Headquarters in Athony.
The defense team of Private Yak Garang Yak who is accused of killing 3 Syrians and a local in Akon in Gogrial West County in Warrap State in January on Friday, rejected photographic evidence presented in court by the prosecution, saying it was not substantial.
The US ambassador to South Sudan Michael J. Alder has urged the unity government to take urgent measures to improve security and foster unity among communities in the country.
Melut County in Upper Nile State on Saturday presented its first-ever development report and launched a county magazine and the website from revenues received from the 3 percent oil share allocated to oil-producing areas.
The government of Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Friday received 6 abductees after they spent over a month in captivity after they were kidnapped by armed youths from Jonglei State who invaded their area in December last year.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Thursday dispatched a team of state cabinet ministers and security personnel to cattle camps in kajo keji, Morobo, Yei, and Lainya counties to persuade pastoralists from Bor in Jonglei State to return home with their cattle.
The South Sudan people’s defense forces (SSPDF) has attributed the delayed deployment of the recently graduated forces to the fact that commanding officers of the Sudan People Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) and South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) commanders have not been absorbed in the SSPDF.
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than USD 288 million in additional humanitarian assistance to the people of South Sudan as populations across the country face acute food insecurity and malnutrition,” A USAID statement said.
The National Security Service’s (NSS) Internal Security Bureau (ISB) has released 3 South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) journalists who were arrested in connection with a leaked video that went viral which shows President Salva Kiir, 71, wetting his trousers at an official function last December.
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has implored South Sudanese political leaders to seize the opportunity to reset the country toward peace, democratic transformation, and prosperity after nearly five years of delays in the implementation of the 2018 Revitalized Peace Agreement.
Authorities in Upper Nile's Fashoda County said they have received four abductees freed from their captors in Jonglei State’s Fangak County.
A leading South Sudanese civil society and rights body has said it is perturbed by the emerging trend of cyber-attacks on media houses and their social media handles.
South Sudan's Warrap State governor has vowed to bring an end to the cycle of communal violence among communities in Warrap by end of May this year.
The Turkish government on Thursday donated the first batch of 75,000 military uniforms to South Sudan’s recently graduated unified forces.
The number of civilians affected by violence in South Sudan increased sharply at the end of 2022, compared to both the previous quarter and the same period in 2021, according to the latest quarterly brief from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
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The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, CEPO, a civil society body in South Sudan is conducting a three-day workshop on transitional justice in Jonglei State's capital, Bor town.
Authorities in Aweil Center County in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State plan to establish eight youth-based farming groups with hopes to boost food production in the area.
An economist has said misinformation about the soaring dollar exchange rate in the black market is the main driver of commodity price hikes and urged the Central Bank and finance ministry to rein in speculators who want to benefit from the turmoil in the market.
The governor of South Sudan's Unity State has donated about 15,000 sacks of sorghum as food aid to at least 130,000 flood-displaced persons at the Bentiu camp.
Inhabitants of Aweil town in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have raised an alarm over skyrocketing commodity prices which traders however attribute to the depreciation of the local currency against the U.S. dollar.
The reopening of the Jonglei State Legislative Assembly which was scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed due to a lack of finances, the parliament’s spokesperson said.
The National Chamber of Commerce has accused the Juba Electricity Distribution Company (JEDCO) of charging excessive power tariffs that have frustrated the growth of local manufacturing.
The Mayor of Juba City Council (JCC) has accused foreign businessmen, especially those who distribute water in tankers to city suburbs, of sabotaging and circumventing the rules and regulations laid out by city authorities.
The commissioner of Mundri East County in Western Equatoria State confirmed to Radio Tamazuj Wednesday that over 800 people displaced from the Nyangbara area of Central Equatoria State have arrived in her county since Tuesday.
Local authorities of Warrap State's Gogrial West County on Tuesday said a fire, suspected to be a case of arson, destroyed 77 shops, 2 big generators, goods, and 2 motorbikes in the Mayom-totin market in Alek Payam.
The governor of Eastern Equatoria State, Gen. Louis Lobong last week issued an executive order indefinitely suspending Kapoeta South County Commissioner Angelo Lominit.
Traders operating in the Mingakaman market in Lakes State's Awerial County on Tuesday closed their shops in protest over increased cases of burglaries.
The executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has put the Government of South Sudan on notice that threatening journalists, muzzling the media, and limiting freedom of expression will radicalize citizens against the regime.
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has raised concern over the continued violations of human rights in the country.
Authorities in the Jonglei state capital, Bor town, have accused suspected armed youth from Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) of attacking ARC workers constructing the Gadiang-Akobo road and the torching of two bulldozers.
The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) will on Wednesday start deploying in the restive North Rift area of Kenya, parts of which border South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State.
At least 13 pupils in South Sudan's Unity State could not sit their Certificate of Primary Education examinations which started on Monday.
Security personnel over the weekend arrested two women on suspicion of stealing and trying to traffic a child in Koda in Dolo Payam of Juba County.
The United States Ambassador to South Sudan, Michael J. Adler, on the occasion to mark World Radio Day on 13 February urged the Government of South Sudan to allow journalists to work without fear of harassment and detention.
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly speaker on Monday wrote a letter summoning the state coordinator of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Stephen Robo, to appear before the house to explain comments he made in the media.
Several South Sudanese from across the country say the radio is an important tool in promoting peaceful coexistence.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday officiated the first-ever International Conference on Women’s Transformational Leadership in Juba.
Sudanese officials are in Juba for a workshop to evaluate the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan launched today in Juba, South Sudan.
Peter Mayen Majongdit, a leader of the Umbrella Parties of the Other Opposition Parties (OPP) and former minister of humanitarian affairs has rejected the appointment of Albino Atak as his replacement.
The undersecretary in the national ministry of peacebuilding has urged media houses in South Sudan to report matters objectively to avoid fuelling conflict.
Over 60,000 pupils are today writing their first paper for the Certificate of Primary Education (PLE) examinations across the country.
The members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan will begin their eleventh visit to South Sudan on Tuesday, 14 February 2023.
A veteran journalist, Peter Butili Farrajallah, is calling on authorities in South Sudan to permit press freedom especially for the radio, which is the main medium of mass communication in the country, saying it is an important tool in peacebuilding as the globe celebrates World Radio Day (WRD), today 13 February.
More than 200 pupils in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) in South Sudan will sit for the 2022 Certificate of Primary Education (PLE) examinations scheduled for Monday.
A 30-year-old SPLAIO soldier identified as Mario Ohisa died by suicide on Friday at the Irube Cantonment site in Torit County of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State.
A herdsman was killed in a road ambush in Nyirol County of Jonglei State on Friday, officials said.
Abyei Administrative Area's education ministry says at least 1,000 pupils are expected to sit the 2022 Certificate of Primary Education (PLE) examinations next week.
The prosecution team in the case of an SSPDF soldier who allegedly killed three Syrian Nationals and a South Sudanese have been granted one week by the General Court Martial to conduct pre-investigation at the crime scene.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has condemned the arrest of activist Morris Mabior Awikjok last Saturday by unknown men in his Nairobi home and urged the Kenyan government to provide information about his whereabouts.
The Governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal State, Sarah Cleto Rial, swore in the newly-appointed state peace and security advisor, Marko Peter Achor on Thursday.
The conflicting communities of Omorwo and Ohilai of Bur payam in Torit County of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state on Wednesday resolved to mend relations by compensating those killed, returning stolen livestock, and ensuring free movement in the area.
South Sudan's ministry of environment and forestry on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) aimed at assessing the impacts of developmental projects on the environment.
The education director in Jonglei state's Nyirol County has been fired over alleged incompetence after the county registered only nine pupils for the 2022 Certificate of Primary Education (PLE) examinations next week.
The Information Committee in the national parliament has said they have extended the parliament recess session to the first week of March while appealing to the justice ministry and cabinet to pass the bills at their disposal so that the assembly can resume its business.
South Sudan's minister of Mining, Martin Abucha, and his Undersecretary Dr. Cosmas Pitia Kujjo is leading a delegation of South Sudan officials to the African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
The family of Morris Mabior Awikjok, a political and human rights activist, is calling for his immediate release after he was picked up last Saturday from his home in Nairobi by armed men in police uniform and taken to an unknown location.
Authorities in Kapoeta East County of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State say tensions have heightened between the Toposa of South Sudan and Turkana of Kenya after reported border clashes.
Residents of the Sherikat neighborhood in Juba can now access banking services after the Kush Bank opened a branch in the area on Wednesday.
South Sudan, through the office of the Vice President for Youth and Gender Cluster, Rebecca Nyandeng, is set to hold the International Conference on Women’s Transformational Leadership from 13th -15th February 2023 in the capital Juba.
A small passenger aircraft slid off the runway after landing at an airstrip in Ulang County of Upper Nile State on Wednesday, killing a woman as it hit a nearby building, officials said.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered law enforcement agencies to probe and bring to book perpetrators who last Thursday killed over 20 unarmed civilians in Lire Payam of Kajo Keji County in Central Equatoria State.
The police in the Lakes State capital, Rumbek, have confirmed that a pickup truck belonging to the SSPDF carrying 6 soldiers from Malek Payam of Rumbek Central County on Tuesday morning overturned leading to the death of 2 soldiers and the injury of 4 others.
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) in a press statement on Tuesday condemned the killing of over 20 people in Kajo Keji County in Central Equatoria State on 2 February.
Students at the University of Bahr el Ghazal in Wau in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have reported a shortage of food at the main campus after the contracted supplier stopped deliveries over nonpayment.
Vice President James Wani Igga has described the pastoralists who killed 21 people in Kajo Keji’s Lire Payam Last week as wizards who want to fail President Salva Kiir and his government.
The Chief Executive Officer of Kowanj Africa, a non-profit relief initiative established in response to the humanitarian needs of South Sudanese families, orphans, and those afflicted by civil war, has welcomed the recent plea by Pope Francis that women and children should be protected in South Sudan.
Medical staff at the main hospital in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, have gone on a sit-down strike over unpaid incentives.
Riots that broke out on Monday in Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to protest the failure of the East African Force to contain the advance of the M23 rebels entered the second day on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has reassured the public of the government’s efforts to resolve all border disputes with neighboring countries that have encroached into South Sudan`s territory.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Portal Welby, has said that achieving peace in South Sudan will benefit other parts of the world that are grappling with crises including the people in Ukraine and will give them hope.
The local authorities in Pigi County in Jonglei State have been holding peace rallies in different parts of the county as part of measures to foster peaceful coexistence amidst an increased influx of returnees.
The South Sudan and Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference on Monday demanded justice for the innocent civilians who were gunned down in cold blood in Lire Payam of Kajo-Kaji County in Central Equatoria State last week.
The Troika Embassies (Norway, United Kingdom, and the United States) in a statement on Monday expressed concern over last week’s killings in Kajo Keji County of Central Equatoria State and urged authorities to hold the perpetrators accountable.
The South Sudan National Police service (SSPNS) has said no crimes were recorded during the pontiff’s visit to Juba.
Several South Sudanese have called on the country's political leaders to heed and act on the message of peace and reconciliation of Pope Francis.
Fighting erupted on Monday between the Toposa of South Sudan and Turkana of Kenya in Eastern Equatoria State over the common border between the two countries.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Monday said his government will use force to evict pastoralists and their cattle from Kajo Keji County following the killing of 21 people in Lire Payam last week by armed herders.
At least six people, including a Boma administrator, were killed and 10 others injured in clashes over revenue collection rights at a riverine village on the outskirts of Ayod County, Jonglei State on Friday evening, officials said.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), in a statement on Sunday said it was shocked to receive initial reports of the deadly violence in Kajo-Keji County of Central Equatoria State that claimed the lives of at least 27 people and left many others injured on 2 February.
The authorities in Unity State have said that 6 school-going children were killed and a mother and her two children were abducted on Friday by armed youth suspected to be from Tonj North County in Warrap State.
The Central Equatoria State Government on Friday resolved to temporarily relocate all the heads of the various security organs at the headquarters in Juba to Kajokeji County following the recent incident that left over 20 people dead in Lire Payam.
In a gesture that shocked his guests, Pope Francis went down on his knees and kissed the feet of South Sudan’s warring leaders at the Vatican in April of 2019. The pope then counseled President Salva Kiir and his former vice president, Riek Machar, to put aside their differences and actively pursue implementation of the national peace agreement that the two men had signed eight months before.
The extraordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State over the weekend resolved that all troop-contributing countries to the East African Regional Force deploy troops to the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help pacify the region.
Construction works for new offices of Bor municipality is underway, with residents being asked to pay SSP 2,500 to fund the project.
The Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS), through the leadership of the Primate Justin Badi Arama, on Saturday honored retired Bishop Nathaniel Garang Anyieth with an award for evangelism and his work in the church.
Pope Francis on Sunday urged South Sudanese to remain hopeful assuring them of his prayers and efforts to bring lasting peace to the conflict-ridden nation.
South Sudan's Vice President for the Gender and Youth Cluster and the widow of SPLM founder Dr. John Garang said her husband and all who lost their lives in the liberation struggle died in vain.
Several officials who were detained for over a week by the SPLA-IO forces while on a peace mission in Mogok Payam of Ayod County, Jonglei state have been released.
Pope Francis on Saturday called for the protection of women and girls against violence in the country.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday told Pope Francis that after a retreat in Rome in 2019, they have been able to implement key tasks in the 2018 revitalized peace agreement.
Pope Francis during the second day of his ecumenical pilgrimage in Juba in South Sudan and while meeting the catholic clergy and lay workers at the St. Theresa Cathedral, asked them to be courageous, have generous souls, and be ready to die for Africa.
The Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs on Thursday received nearly 20,000 laws and legal forms printed by Max Planck Foundation through funding from the European Union (EU).
President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday pardoned 71 inmates who were serving different sentences.
The Bor County Commissioner, James Tuor Kur, has said that the information they got while on a peace mission to Kajo Keji is that Thursday’s killings of 21 locals by pastoralists from Bor were instigated by an early morning attack on a cattle camp the same day.
Pope Francis has called on South Sudanese political leaders to end the bloodshed in the country and embrace peace.
South Sudanese hope that Pope Francis’ visit will encourage the political leaders to embrace peace and restore stability in the restive country.
Pope Francis has arrived in Juba, South Sudan, where he is embarking upon an ecumenical pilgrimage.
A section of lawmakers in the Eastern Equatoria State parliament has backed Kapoeta East County citizens who on Wednesday protested what they called an encroachment by Kenyan authorities into South Sudanese territory.
Justin Portal Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on Thursday tweeted that he was horrified by the killing of innocent civilians by armed pastoralists in Kajo Keji County in Central Equatoria State.
A Chinese gold miner working for Prudential Mining Company died on the spot while eight other people who were traveling in the same vehicle sustained injuries when they got into an accident along the Ngauro-Nahichod road in Budi County in Eastern Equatoria State on Tuesday.
The South Sudan NGO Forum has said that amidst the recent wave of violence in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) between rival communities, a worsening catastrophe is unfolding, putting women, children, and the elderly on the brink of another humanitarian crisis.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) on Friday called for a joint UN and Ceasefire & Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring & Verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM) investigation into escalating violence and killings in the country.
At least 20 civilians were reportedly dragged out of their homes and gunned down in Lire Payam in Central Equatoria State’s Kajo Keji County by armed pastoralists suspected to be from Bor in Jonglei State on Thursday morning, officials said.
Preparations are in high gear for the coming of Pope Francis and other religious leaders to South Sudan's Capital Juba on the 3rd of February 2023.
The spokesman of the SPLA-IO Agwelek forces led by Johnson Olony has refuted a report by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) of a military build-up of the forces in Upper Nile State to launch attacks.
The 12-year-old girl who killed her father over unmet Christmas demands in Longechuk County in Upper Nile State on December 12 last year has been transferred to a refugee camp in neighboring Ethiopia.
The minister of parliamentary affairs in the government of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, Lual Lual Agou, has passed on, officials revealed.
The Mayor of Juba City Council has announced that the Customs market will be closed on Saturday and Sunday as the Pope and other prelates meet the internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the Freedom Hall and hold mass at the Dr. John Garang Mausoleum.
The police in Lakes State have confirmed that four army officers have been arrested in connection to the torture of an influential local chief from Yirol East County at the Maburzeet Prison in Yirol West County.
Health authorities in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal on Monday received medical facilities including 25 refrigerators, 25 solar panels, and other equipment meant to improve healthcare across the State.
Authorities in Nyirol County in Jonglei State said an investigation is ongoing into an incident in which gunmen attacked and injured a youth leader in the county headquarters, Langkien town, on Tuesday.
Security agencies in Juba, South Sudan said Wednesday that joint forces of about 5,000 national security, police, and the army have been deployed in the capital ahead of the ecumenical visit of the Pope and other religious leaders on Friday.
A mother has been found murdered and her three children missing in Tiam Payam of Uror County in Jonglei State on Tuesday, local officials said.
A gang of youth on Tuesday night hacked a local disk jockey identified as Tobby Wilson, 25, with machetes in the Addis Ababa area of Torit town in Eastern Equatoria State, local officials said.
The ministry of health in South Sudan's Lakes State has launched a third Covid-19 vaccination drive targeting over 100,000 people.
The United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) in a press release Wednesday strongly condemned the renewed intercommunal violence which it said is threatening the security situation in and around the southern part of the Abyei box.
The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) on Tuesday received a check of SSP 75 million from Africa’s largest mobile telephone operator, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), as sponsorship.
Pope Francis has condemned the exploitation of Africa and urged the outside world to acknowledge the catastrophic things that have been done in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Africa at large and respect its people.
In a decree on Tuesday evening, South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointed Albino Akol Atak as the new Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in a statement on Wednesday said it was concerned about reports of a military build-up of Agwelek forces in Upper Nile State.
The European Union (EU) and Sweden have contributed 6.1 million dollars to the World Bank in support of the newly activated South Sudan Multi-Donor Transition Trust Fund (MDTTF).
The governor of South Sudan's Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Tong Akeen Ngor, Tuesday swore in the new Aweil Town mayor Zackaria Dut Mou and the deputy mayor for planning, Charles Malong Anyuon.
A group of women vendors who were operating in Marol market in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, have criticized their forceful eviction from the market and said the new place allocated to them by the mayor is far from their customers.
The former Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Gen. Pagan Amum Okiech, who is now the leader of the holdout group, the Real SPLM, has faulted President Salva Kiir for betraying the ideals of the SPLM and scuttling the party.
Pope Francis embarks on his fifth visit to Africa today, flying to the DRC and then South Sudan to plead for peace in the two conflict-ridden nations. As South Sudanese wait for the church leaders to land in Juba on Friday, they told Radio Tamazuj that all they hope for is that the visit brings peace, healing, and reconciliation to the nation.
The authorities in Lakes State have confirmed that they are investigating police brutality in Yirol West County and the recent torture of an influential local chief at the Maburzeet Prison there.
The South Sudan United Front/Army (SSUF/A) led by General Paul Malong Awan has split into two groups after a group calling itself the SSUF/A Nairobi Declaration announced the ouster of General Malong from the leadership of the movement.
The Vice-President of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo on Monday left for the Chadian capital N'Djamena for a one-day official visit.
More than 40 farmers in Kajo-Keji County of Central Equatoria State attended two-day training under the theme "Farming for peace".
The secretary-general of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Paolo Impagliazzo, says they welcome the decision by the government of South Sudan to resume talks with the hold-out opposition groups and that the talks will resume after the Pope's visit this week.
The police in Lakes State have apprehended a local trader over the death of a prison officer in Rumbek.
The information ministry in South Sudan’s Jonglei State has directed all journalists operating in the state to register as part of measures to combat the spread of misinformation.
At least 16 people were killed and eight others injured when armed youth suspected to be from Abyei and Unity State attacked a cattle camp in Warrap State's Twic County on Saturday, authorities said.
The General Court Martial (GCM) of the SSPDF’s Department of Military Justice convened to try Private Yak Garang Yak who shot and killed three Syrian construction workers and a local boy in Akon village in Gogrial West County in Warrap State earlier in the year has been reconstituted and will start hearing the case on 10 February.
One person was killed and three policemen were injured in Ngauro village in Budi County in Eastern Equatoria State on Thursday during clashes that resulted from a cattle raid, officials said.
The Fourth Division of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) on Friday donated 240 exercise books to Primary 8 candidates in Rubkona Primary School in Unity State.
Information Minister Michael Makuei has said that the council of ministers in its meeting on Friday approved over SSP 61 billion to cater for the pay rise of lecturers and support staff at public universities.
The council of ministers on Friday approved the plan for the implementation of the Constitution Making Process Act 2022 as presented by the Minister of Justice, Ruben Madol Arol, Information Minister Michael Makuei revealed.
People who criminalize homosexuality are "wrong", Pope Francis said in a letter published on Saturday, seeking to clarify earlier comments about homosexual acts being a "sin", AFP reports.
The National Minister of Information, Communication and Postal Service on Friday said that South Sudan will not tolerate homosexuality and same-sex marriage adding that it is punishable by law.
Local government authorities in Aweil North County in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have confirmed the arrival of Sudanese pastoralists and their herds ahead of the start of the seasonal cattle migration.
As Pope Francis prepares to embark on his Apostolic Journey to two African nations, we offer an overview of the Catholic Church in South Sudan.By Lisa Zengarini/Vatican News
The speaker of the Warrap State Legislative Assembly has said that a recent change in the political leadership of the state has delayed the house’s resumption of business.
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has welcomed the decisions reached during the ordinary session of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism (JPSM) meeting of 18 January 2023 and said it is encouraged by the parties’ unwavering commitment to the full implementation of the Cooperation Agreements and the Agreement on Security Arrangements signed by Sudan and South Sudan in 2012.
Unity State's Al Merrikh football team on Wednesday beat Eastern Equatoria's Young Starts football team in the ongoing South Sudan Cup tournaments at Buluk Stadium in Juba.
A cargo plane on Friday morning crashed in the Referendum suburb in Juba City shortly after taking off from Juba International Airport (JIA).
The Kenyan Ambassador to South Sudan Maj. Gen. Samuel Nandwa says Kenya is ready to ensure effective clearance of goods coming to South Sudan through Kenya.
An official at the Tambura County Hospital in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State has raised an alarm over increased cases of mental health disorders in the area in the past year.
President Salva Kiir on Thursday fired the governor of Upper Nile State and replaced several SPLM-IO members in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), Council of States, and other officials in several states
The United Nations has identified major issues which it recommends the government tackles for South Sudan to be able to conduct credible elections at the end of the transitional period next year.
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has urged the leadership of the unity government, peace partners, and South Sudanese people to renew their confidence in the peace process, rebuild trust, and demonstrate genuine political will and unity of purpose, with the spirit of forgiveness and magnanimity ahead of the Pope’s visit next month.
The speaker of the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly has formed a committee to investigate the alleged illegal mining of gold in Raga County’s Boro-Madina area.
Armed youth suspected to be highway robbers on Tuesday afternoon clashed with an SSPDF unit in Loming Village in Lafon County in Eastern Equatoria State.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday arrived in Khartoum, Sudan on a one-day official visit and was received at Khartoum International Airport by the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan.
As South Sudan prepares to receive Pope Francis, Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony has called on citizens especially, Juba City dwellers, to turn up in big numbers to welcome the Vicar of Christ and his accompanying delegation.
The Juba City Council (JCC) and the national interior ministry on Wednesday gave a scary picture of a bleak future awaiting the country if urgent steps are not taken to tackle the high rise of drug abuse by mostly youth.
The U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Michael J. Adler on Wednesday presented certificates to eight graduates of a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) activity funded through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a statement said.
The U.S. Embassy in South Sudan has strongly condemned the recent targeted attacks on humanitarian workers and their compounds.
South Sudan's Ministry of Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United Nations on Wednesday launched a peacebuilding fund (PBF) Joint Steering Committee (JSC) aimed at coordinating and facilitating activities towards lasting peace.
The national minister of General Education and Instruction on Wednesday announced that the 2022 Certificate of Primary Education (CPE) examinations will commence on Monday 13 February and conclude on Friday 17 February 2023.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the United Nations camp in Juba are complaining of worsening humanitarian conditions saying they are hungry and lack enough water.
Civil society organizations in Wau in Western Bahr el Ghazal State were on Tuesday trained in the state’s budget-making process and how to track government expenditure.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) swore in Peter Lam Both as its Secretary General on Tuesday.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Tuesday while giving a speech at the swearing-in ceremony of the SPLM party secretary general, Peter Lam Both, vowed not to spare coup plotters in the future.
President Salva Kiir on Tuesday revealed that the three Syrians who were recently killed in Akon village in Gogrial West County of Warrap State were building his house there.
The council of ministers in South Sudan's Lakes State have passed a resolution deducting the basic salaries of the executive and constitutional post-holders to finance Rumbek University.
Authorities from Eastern Equatoria State and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have agreed to improve bilateral ties between them.
A contribution of CAD5.5 million (US$4.1 million) from the Government of Canada will provide more than 23,000 children in South Sudan with access to daily nutritious meals at school, or take-home rations, over the next three years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today at a signing ceremony.
The South Sudan Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism has seized more than five tons of game meat and apprehended tens of suspected poachers over the weekend in Eastern Equatoria State.
The South Sudan Islamic Council said that it welcomes the visit of Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, to the country in February.
A 70-year-old man identified as John Okwahi on Sunday committed suicide in the Enyif suburb of Torit Town in Eastern Equatoria State.
The Government of Japan through its embassy in Juba on Monday donated dignity kits to 1,000 women and girls in the internally displaced peoples camp, previously run by the UN as a Protection of Civilians Site (PoC), in Juba.
The acting commissioner of Pochalla County in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) has said relative calm has returned to the county following tension between elements of the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and local youth on Sunday.
The hearing of a prime suspect in the murder of three Syrian nationals and a South Sudanese man earlier this month in Akon village of Warrap State has been postponed until further notice.
The UN’s acting Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Peter Van der Auweraert, on Monday strongly condemned last Wednesday’s attack on humanitarian workers and assets in Pibor, Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA).
The displaced people from Jonglei State who are settled in the Mangala area of Juba County in Central Equatoria State have complained about their dire humanitarian situation amidst aid cuts.
South Sudan’s national health ministry has recorded an increase in cases of measles across the country with Lakes State being the worst hit.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) over the weekend officially launched its secretariat and a registration exercise of its members in the Eastern Equatoria State capital Torit with pageantry.
At least 17 inmates charged with different crimes were released from Juba Central Prison in Central Equatoria State on Friday after a group of pro bono lawyers and legal aid organizations paid their fines.
The National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) has distanced itself from claims by the Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly’s (R-TNLA) information committee chairperson that faulted the body for the delay in the reopening of the house.
The Malakia High Court in Juba has set 22 February 2023 as the date it will deliver a verdict in the case of the Pieri plane crash.
The council of ministers has approved nearly USD 4.5 Million to appeal a case brought against the Government of South Sudan by the Al Fattouch Group which operated the telecoms firm Vivacell which was suspended by the government in March 2018.
The Government of South Sudan has said it will not abolish the death penalty and insists that it is a deterrent to prevent serious crimes.
The United States Ambassador to South Sudan has expressed concern over reports of abductions and recruitment of child soldiers in the country.
South Sudan and five other countries have lost their voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly, the United Nations Chief said in a letter circulated Thursday.
At least two people were killed in clashes between the communities of Hiyalla and Haforiere on Wednesday in Eastern Equatoria's Torit County, officials said.
The National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) submitted the National Revenue Authority Amendment Bill 2023 to the Ministry of Justice on Thursday.
More than 50 chiefs and local government administrators in Eastern Equatoria State concluded a two-day training to better understand and perform their duties.
South Sudan’s National Security Services have detained another journalist working for state-run media, with charges remaining unclear.
The Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM) has raised concern over the continued lack of food and medicine for forces at the cantonment sites.
Officials in Yirol East County of Lakes State say at least four children have died of suspected measles since the country announced an outbreak.
An elderly South Sudanese man reportedly died after a huge fire broke out at Takamul refugee camp on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan on Tuesday evening.
The South Sudan health ministry on Wednesday launched a three-day free diabetes testing drive at the Juba Teaching Hospital and unveiled medical equipment by Tamy Pharma in conjunction with Sinocare.
At least four children have been confirmed dead after a grenade they were playing with exploded in Petaladu village, Budi County of South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State on Tuesday.
The Catholic Church of South Sudan said preparations are in high gear for the reception of Pope Francis in the capital Juba.
Authorities in Leer County of South Sudan's Unity State have said they have arrested three men to help in investigating the death by suicide of an 18-year-old woman on Monday.
Compatriots, many greetings in the name of our beloved country South Sudan. Despite the current evolution she is experiencing, that can't rule out our love and positive feelings for her. Fellow countrymen, I would like to highlight briefly what is exactly Lafon and why the area is important. I shall be just selective since the town carries a lot of historical acknowledgment which I will not mention all here.
The Egyptian government has donated two metric tons of medical supplies to help the flood-affected population in South Sudan’s Jonglei state.
At least 20 abductees, including women and children, were on Tuesday handed over to the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) authorities in Pibor town by Jonglei State government officials.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) on Tuesday paid a courtesy visit to President Salva Kiir’s press secretary, Lily Adhieu Martin Manyiel, to foment working relations and create a conducive environment for the media in the country.
The Greater Pibor Administrative (GPAA) information minister has called on aid agencies to come to the aid of thousands of people who were displaced last weekend when an armed group from Ethiopia attacked the Nyat area of Jebel Boma County.
The Secretary General of the Sudan People`s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party, Peter Lam Both, on Tuesday, returned to Juba after spending over a month in Germany where he had back surgery.
The Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly (RTNLA) has extended its recess over delays by the National Constitution Amendment Committee (NCAC) in tabling outstanding Bills, the chairperson of the house’s information committee has revealed.
The Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Legislative Assembly on Monday resumed business after a five months hiatus according to the state’s minister of parliamentary affairs.
Inhabitants of South Sudan’s capital Juba say commodity prices shot up after the festive season which they attribute to a strong dollar and resultant inflation.
The police in Rumbek Central County in Lakes State have said they are investigating the circumstances that led to a girl committing suicide over the weekend after quarreling with her elder sister who accused her of being pregnant.
A 4-year-old child succumbed to injuries sustained after a motorcycle accident on Monday in Yambio County of Western Equatoria State.
At least seven people were reportedly killed and two others injured in Surei Village of Dollo Payam in Juba County, Central Equatoria State after suspected armed Mundari cattle herders attacked the village over the weekend
The police in Rumbek Central County in Lakes State have confirmed that a relative to a bride-to-be has been arrested after accidentally killing the bridegroom ahead of his wedding ceremony scheduled for Wednesday in Rumbek town.
The government of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Monday announced the closure of the Aweil-Meiram road which connects South Sudan and Sudan over insecurity and said it was a measure to protect travelers.
The traffic police in Bentiu town in Unity State said a policewoman died after falling off a pickup truck at the roundabout near the state secretariat on Friday.
The Speaker of the Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly Rt. Hon. Jemma Nunu Kumba on Sunday apologized for the government’s failure to live up to the people’s expectation of bringing peace and stability to the country.
A Sudanese court on Sunday convicted the wife of former president Omar Al Bashir of illegally amassing wealth and ruled to strip her of her assets.
Commercial truck drivers have resumed movement along the Nimule- Elegu border point, on the Uganda-South Sudan border, after a week-long strike.
The Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU) over the weekend passed out at least 3,601 Necessary Unified Forces in Unity State who will be deployed to the South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS).
The police in South Sudan's Upper Nile state said at least four people were killed and another injured in an attack in the disputed Kilo 10 area between Maban and Melut counties on Sunday.
A section of women in the Abyei Administrative Area over the weekend protested President Salva Kiir’s sacking of Kuol Deim Kuol, the former chief administrator, who was replaced by Chol Deng Alak.
Police in Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal State are investigating after a decomposing body of a 50-year-old woman was found dumped in a residential area.
The top UN envoy in South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, has called on the international community to support the peace process as the country prepares for elections next year.
A total of 10,581 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are still sheltering at the UN camp in Wau in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have called on the state government to give them land for resettlement.
President Salva Kiir on Friday night fired the head of the government-owned Nile Petroleum Company (Nilpet), which oversees the South Sudan oil industry.
The in charge of the health center in Mundri West County in Western Equatoria State has called on the government to elevate the facility to a hospital because it serves surrounding areas and many people from far-flung communities.
A woman and her 6-month-old baby were killed and a girl abducted in an attack in Nyirol County in Jonglei State on Wednesday, local officials and the police said.
The global movement that campaigns to end abuses of human rights, Amnesty International, has called on South Sudanese authorities to release six South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) staff or charge them with them in court.
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State finance ministry on Wednesday presented an SSP 8 billion budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year before the state parliament.
Sudan and South Sudan on Thursday discussed ways of stabilizing economic and security cooperation between the two countries.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has sacked the chief of state protocol at the president’s office.
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State Parliament has ordered Raja County Commissioner to stay in Wau until the house completes its fact-finding into illegal gold mining in Boro-Madina.
More than 70 conflict-displaced people on Wednesday stormed the office of Torit County Commissioner and occupied the compound to demand aid assistance.
The Chairperson of the Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Anti-Corruption Commission, Anei Rok Akuei, on Wednesday appeared before a court in Aweil town over an embezzlement report.
Ashoup Morwell Ater, a former refugee and now the CEO and founder of Kowanj Australia and Kowanj Africa, a charity organization providing support to South Sudanese refugees.
Authorities of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) said they received 68 abductees from the neighboring Jonglei State counterparts during a ceremony in the GPAA capital, Pibor town on Wednesday afternoon.
The Young Stars Women's Football team in Torit town of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State has been crowned the champion of the South Sudan cup in the state capital Torit.
Authorities of Twic County of Warrap State and Rumamer County of the Abyei Administrative Area said the Panrual Agriculture Scheme was attacked on Wednesday morning, leaving three people dead.
The chairperson of the South Sudanese refugee community at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Bweyale, Uganda says a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death during a fight of criminal gangs on Sunday morning.
Officials in Ayod County of Jonglei State say unknown gunmen shot and killed four people and made away with over 200 cattle in a remote village last weekend.
At least 12 people have been killed and eight others injured in fresh attacks in Uror County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State on Tuesday, officials said.
The 750-strong South Sudanese battalion expected to join a regional force fighting a rebel offensive in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is yet to leave the country two weeks after it was commissioned.
The Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in South Sudan, Mr. Peter van der Auweraert, has strongly condemned the killing of three aid workers in Rumameer village, Abyei Administrative Area and in Duk County, Jonglei State.
Authorities of Warrap State's Tonj East county and Lakes State's Rumbek North county said on Wednesday that five people were killed and about nine injured in an attack at the Panhomcuol cattle camp in Makuach payam of Tonj East.
The Farmers' Union in Western Bahr el Ghazal State received multiple packages of vegetable seeds from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Bangladesh battalion in Wau on Tuesday.
The South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) has dared the Bari Community leadership of Central Equatoria State to dispel the army’s stand that the rebel National Salvation Front (NAS) has a presence in Mangala Payam.
Bodies of two Misseriya traders were found near Banton on the outskirts of Abyei, where they were abandoned after being killed by unknown persons, the UN peacekeepers said.
The Administration of Upper Nile University, together with the university academic staff association, have on Tuesday lifted the industrial action and resumed lectures.
A soldier has been arrested as the prime suspect in the killings of three foreigners and a local in South Sudan’s Warrap State over the weekend, the military said.
At least five herdsmen were killed, two others injured and about 100 head of cattle stolen during a raid by an armed youth group in Nyirol County in Jonglei State on Sunday, local officials said.
Police authorities in Rumbek North county of Lakes State said at least two people were killed during clashes between cattle raiders and owners there.
The internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Aweil of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State are calling on the humanitarian community to provide them with aid as their situation deteriorates.
The chairman of the African National Congress (ANC), a political party in South Sudan, George Kongor Arop, blamed the ongoing communal violence in the country on the proliferation of illegal guns in the hands of civilians and called on the United Nations and partners to support the government in the disarmament process.
A senior army commander said the security situation in Fashoda County of Upper Nile State was under control and reassured the public that the situation was calm.
The United Nations has expressed concerns over the arrest of six journalists over a video showing South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir in an embarrassing situation.
Sudan and Kenya have promised to play their role in sustaining peace and stability in neighbouring South Sudan.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has issued an executive order removing the Chief Administrator for the Abyei region and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
At least one person was killed and two others sustained injuries when two motorcycles collided on Saturday in Yambio of Western Equatoria State, police said.
The Episcopal Diocese of Nyamlel in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State says one of its churches was burnt to ashes in Aweil North County by arsonists on 3rd January 2023.
Clashes between the National Security Service (NSS) personnel and armed pastoralists from Unity State on Saturday left three people dead and five others injured among the belligerents in the Ruweng Administrative Area, a local official said.
The administration of Wau Central Prison in Western Bahr el Ghazal State earlier in the year released at least 21 inmates who were arrested for petty crimes and ordered by courts to pay fines.
A 25-year-old man was on Sunday killed in what a local official said was a suspected revenge attack at the Mayiendit County Prison in Unity State.
“Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words”. The Late Gen. John Kong Nyuon ultimately passed on in a Kenyan Capital; Nairobi, on 26th Dec 2022, one week after he was taken there for a tardy medical attention. The Doctors diagnosed or stated no clear cause of his death.
The President of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS), Oyet Patrick, has called on the authorities to expedite the investigation of the six South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) staff who are in the custody of the National Security Service (NSS).
At least 14 people were killed and 16 others injured in separate attacks in Uror and Duk counties of Jonglei State on Friday, according to local officials.
The Warrap state police have commenced an investigation into the shooting deaths of four construction workers in Akon, the hometown of President Salva Kiir.
The management of the University of Bahr el Ghazal on Friday dissolved the Teaching Staff Association due to the resumption of the lectures’ strike over unpaid salary arrears.
The governor of Lakes State, Gen. Riny Tueny Mabor, has condemned the killing of three men from the state in Central Equatoria State’ Terekeka County on 31 December 2022 by suspected bandits.
The Aweil Football Association in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Thursday announced the suspension of football player Manhiak Majak because of signing contracts with two different soccer clubs.
South Sudan’s Council of Ministers has approved a national policy on occupational safety and health, a first-ever policy that seeks to protect a worker’s right to a safe working environment in the country.
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State parliament on Wednesday summoned two state ministers and the Raja County commissioner to answer questions about alleged illegal gold mining in Raja County’s far west.
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State parliament on Wednesday summoned two state ministers and the Raja County commissioner to answer questions about alleged illegal gold mining in Raja County’s far west.
Fresh clashes have broken out in Likuangole County of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), days after armed youth from Jonglei State started retreating to their areas, local officials said.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has called on the SPLM and the SPLM-IO to expeditiously address the escalating power scuffle in Western Bahr el Ghazal States’ far-flung Raga County.
At least two passengers died, and seven others sustained injuries when two Toyota Land cruiser vehicles collided along the Awerial-Yirol West road in Lakes State on Thursday afternoon.
An Eritrean national described as one of ‘’the world’s most wanted″ human traffickers has been arrested in Sudan after a manhunt led by the United Arab Emirates, Interpol announced on Thursday.
The National Security Service’s Internal Security Bureau (ISB) in Juba has reportedly detained six employees of the national broadcaster, South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), in connection with a video that is embarrassing to the person of the president.
Northern Bahr el Ghazal State-based civil society activist Samuel Garang Dut has been detained by Military Intelligence Directorate in Juba over alleged links to General Paul Malong Awan, his family and friends said.
The row between the defrocked Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan’s Jonglei Internal Province, Ruben Ngong Akurdid, and his replacement, Moses Anur, spilled over to a refugee camp in Uganda on Wednesday leading to the shooting of a refugee and arrest of two others.
South Sudan’s main opposition group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In-Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Riek Machar on Thursday condemned a decision by President Salva Kiir to dismiss the speaker of the Jonglei State legislative assembly, saying it was illegal.
At least three people were killed, one person injured and several homes torched in an early Wednesday morning attack in Nyirol County in Jonglei state, authorities said.
The local authorities in Kapoeta East County in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State have confirmed that a police officer in charge of the border town of Nadapal was on Monday shot and injured by suspected Turkana cattle rustlers from neighboring Kenya.
A South Sudanese civil society activist on Wednesday said the government has abdicated its constitutional mandate of protecting civilians and their property.
The Chief of Mangala Payam of Central Equatoria State has said that normalcy is slowly returning to the area following clashes between armed cattle herders and the host community on Christmas Day.
The teaching staff at the two public universities of Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal have resumed their strike over pay which they briefly suspended at the end of last year to administer examinations.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Tuesday issued a gubernatorial order forming a seven-member committee to demolish illegal structures and retrieve all playgrounds and reserve land in Juba City Council (JCC), Luri, and Rajaf payams.
Tension has been simmering in Western Bahr el Ghazal State’s Raga County between the SPLM-IO nominated commissioner and the SPLM party’s county secretary there.
Armed youth from Jonglei State who attacked and have been engaged in fighting in parts of the neighboring Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have started retreating to their state, authorities said.
At least 13 people were killed and five others wounded in an attack in the Abyei region that’s disputed between South Sudan and Sudan, the UN peacekeeping force said on Tuesday.
Police have arrested 44 gang members in the capital Juba after having fought and killed two members on Monday.
An 11-year-old boy who went missing while travelling to Sudan at the peak of the South Sudan conflict in 2015 was over the weekend reunited with his family in Unity State.
Police and local authorities in Aweil Center County of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have detained two people for investigations following deadly communal violence on Sunday.
South Sudan’s Ambassador to Kenya, Chol Mawut Unguec Ajongo, a lawyer by profession, worked with UNHCR in Egypt after fleeing Sudan as a refugee. He helped resettle many of his then-countrymen and refugees from other countries to third countries.
A traffic police officer accused of misconduct took his life inside a traffic police cell in the capital Juba, police authorities said.
Kenya’s President William Ruto has announced that the regional bloc IGAD will hold a Summit before the end of January, with a focus on South Sudan.
Citizens in Torit County of Eastern Equatoria State have thanked the authorities for ensuring a peaceful festive season over the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.
At least five people were killed and one injured while more than 1460 cattle were raided in separate attacks in Uror County in Jonglei State since Sunday, authorities said.
Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, on Saturday, reaffirmed the commitment of the military to exit the political process in the country.
Some 3,500 South Sudanese refugees returned to Magwi County of Eastern Equatoria State from neighbouring countries in the past two months, a relief official said.
At least two people were killed and 260 herds of cattle raided in separate attacks in Uror County of Jonglei State since Friday, local officials said.
Five former ministers in Jonglei State have threatened to take legal action against the state government over unpaid 9,221,000 SSP in salary arrears.
Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced Saturday, almost a decade after he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.
A South Sudanese catholic bishop said he was alarmed by violent conflicts and killings in parts of Upper Nile State, saying the culture of death must stop.
A -50-year-old woman, identified as Acina Jina Atai Peter, was reported dead after hanging herself in Torit town, Eastern Equatoria State, on Friday.
Disagreement over how to handle violence in Juba County of Central Equatoria State has put the military on a collision course with the Bari Community, with its leaders increasingly vocal in their criticism of the forces.
South Sudan’s government said it is very keen on taking necessary measures to protect civilians in areas experiencing insecurity in the country.
Five commercial trucks loaded with food from Sudan’s East Darfur State have arrived in Aweil North County of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, local officials said.
A South Sudanese civil society activist has urged the transitional government to discuss critical security issues and implementation of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement before year-end.
Traders have lamented heavy losses resulting from a fire accident at the Jebel Market in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
At least four herdsmen have gone missing and 380 head of cattle were raided in an attack carried out by a group of armed men in Pieri Payam of Uror County in Jonglei State on Wednesday, local officials said.
The U.S. Embassy in Juba has announced the launch of two English Access Microscholarship Programs (Access) in Juba on December 16, and in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal on December 28.
Armed youth from Jonglei State engaged in ongoing fighting in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have withdrawn from Gumuruk town, days after capturing it, the army and local officials said.
The humanitarian community on Thursday called for the immediate cessation of hostilities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), saying the violent clashes in South Sudan intensify the humanitarian situation.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has resumed attending mass at St Theresa’s Cathedral in Juba after absenting himself for some time.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit has flagged off a battalion of 750 soldiers to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), AUMISS, IGAD, the Troika, EU and R-JMEC said they are gravely concerned about the escalating ongoing violence, loss of life and reports of alleged use of heavy weaponry in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, by armed youth from Jonglei state.
Eastern Equatoria state lawmakers last week voted to impeach Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Joseph Opio over corruption allegations, MPs said.
Several people are feared dead after armed Jonglei youth overran Gumuruk town in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) on Tuesday, local officials said.
Traffic Police in Western Bahr el Ghazal state said seven traffic accidents were recorded during this year’s Christmas holiday.
A passenger bus hit a parked lorry in the Sudanese city of Omdurman early on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people, police said.
The former governor of Jonglei State, General John Kong Nyuon, has passed away at the Nairobi Hospital in Kenya while undergoing treatment.
The South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) says it clashed with the rebel National Salvation Front (NAS) forces in Mangala payam of Juba County on Christmas Day and killed five rebels.
A Sudanese political analyst says Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti', the Vice President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council's visit to Juba, South Sudan is likely to discuss the political developments in Sudan.
Two people were killed on Saturday during the execution of a court order in Manyangok Payam, Tonj South County of South Sudan's Warrap state.
Four women and three children were abducted by armed men in a road ambush in Uror County in Jonglei State on Monday, local officials and the police said.
Several villages in Gumuruk County of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have been burned to ashes due to ongoing fighting in the area, local officials said.
At least 45 community leaders from Torit Municipal Council in Eastern Equatoria state were trained on Ebola prevention in Torit on Thursday.
Twelve army officers with South Sudan’s main opposition group, SPLA-IO, on Friday defected to South Sudan United Movement/Army (SSUM/A) under Denay Jock Chagor in Uror County of Jonglei State.
Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony on Friday clarified that he has not received any summons concerning a court order seeking his appearance in court in a personal capacity over the eviction of a former constitutional post holder.
Lakes State Governor Rin Tueny Mabor on Friday opened a new petrol station in the state capital, Rumbek.
The Western Bahr el Ghazal State Ministry of Gender and Child has filed a legal case against three businesswomen in Wau over the alleged use of child labour.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed and around 20 others injured in clashes in Sudan's restive Darfur region.
A joint security force has been deployed in several parts of Unity State to preserve peace during Christmas celebrations.
The tensions that surfaced in the greater Jonglei region this week have erupted into violent attacks on the Greater Pibor area on Saturday, a local official said.
Pope Francis condemned human "hunger for wealth and power" at Christmas Eve Mass in the Vatican.
Residents in Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal state have expressed concern over the rising prices of goods in the markets due to Christmas.
South Sudan has secured 3.7 billion US dollars from the World Food Program (WFP) for disaster management and food security for two years, a government spokesman announced.
A rabid dog attacked and killed two people in Mayom County of Unity State, a local health official said.
A Juba high court has sentenced a National Security officer, Bobby Longar Akok, to death by hanging.
Civil servants in South Sudan’s Lakes State have complained about high commodity prices and low salaries as Christmas approaches.
Thousands of South Sudanese who fled for their lives to neighbouring countries when civil war broke out in 2013 have returned to the country voluntarily, a UN official said.
The high demand in the run-up to Christmas has caused the price of basic communities and clothing to rise sharply in Yambio town of Western Equatoria State.
Three lions were shot dead in Sudan after trying to escape from their cages inside a base of Sudan's paramilitary forces, an animal shelter official announced on Thursday.
Central Equatoria State authorities said they have deployed troops to deter violence between the host community and cattle keepers in Mangala Payam of Juba County.
A high-level delegation of the UN mission in South Sudan and authorities on Wednesday visited Kodok, an area in Fashoda County of Upper Nile State, the UN mission said.
Authorities of Bor municipality in Jonglei State have beefed up security to ensure law and order are maintained in the town as Christmas approaches.
The UN Mission (UNMISS) in South Sudan said it is deeply concerned about reported mobilisation of armed Nuer youth in the Greater Jonglei area.
The Turkey government, through the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) on Wednesday, donated farming tools to Sudanese refugees and the host community in the Jamjang area of the Ruweng Administrative Area.
The government of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State through the High Court released 167 prisoners who were convicted of minor crimes at Aweil Central Prison on Tuesday.
Commercial trucks loaded with goods have started arriving in Western Bahr el Ghazal state capital Wau through the southern Darfur region.
The South Sudan Islamic Council, a faith-based organization, has called for the need to mobilize funds to support those displaced by the conflict in Upper Nile State.
The national Minister of Interior Mahamoud Solomon Agook and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) South Sudan Country Representative Arafat Jamal visited Western Equatoria State to assess the situation of refugees at Makpandu refugee camp in Yambio County.
A humanitarian response plan worth 1.7 billion US dollars for South Sudan was launched on Tuesday to support 6.8 million of the most vulnerable people in the next year, a UN humanitarian coordinator said.
As the festive season and New Year celebrations draw closer, organized forces have intensified security patrols in the capital, Juba and the states.
More than 50 unified forces have died and over 1,500 others are likely to miss the upcoming graduation ceremony at the Kaljak Training Centre in South Sudan's Unity State, a military official there said.
Sudan’s ousted president Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday announced his full responsibility for the events of the 1989 coup d'état that brought him and 27 of his aides to power.
The East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) has elected Ntakarutimana Joseph from Burundi as the new Speaker of the House, replacing Rwanda’s Martin Ngoga, who led the outgoing 4th assembly.
Authorities in Lakes confirmed that Mary Nyanathuoi Mager, the payam administrator of Tiaptiap was killed by an unknown gunman on Monday.
The High Court in Juba on Tuesday sentenced the self-styled prophet Abraham Chol Maketh to three years in jail.
The governors of Central Equatoria and Jonglei states and the national ministers of defense and interior are expected to appear before the parliament early next year to present their findings on the killings in Lokiliri.
At least seven people were killed in fresh inter-communal clashes between Lohilai and Omorwo villages of Bur Payam, Torit County of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State on Sunday.
Prof. Taban Lo Liong is a South Sudanese academic, poet, and renowned writer of literary criticism and fiction. He currently teaches at the University of Juba. Radio Tamazuj recently caught up with him in Nairobi, Kenya where he launched his book ‘After Troy'. He speaks of his childhood, his pursuit of education among other things.
At least one person was killed, four others injured and over 14,000 head of cattle rustled during an attack by a group of armed youth in Ayod County in Jonglei State over the weekend, authorities said.
Peter Lam Both, the SPLM Secretary General, was hospitalized in Germany and has undergone surgery, according to a party official.
The High Court in Juba has convicted a national security officer who shot and killed his wife and another man in June at the Bedouin Hotel.
Members of the Lakes State Legislative Assembly on Friday concluded a 3-day induction training supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
The MTN mobile operator in South Sudan has launched a 10-computer lab at Juba Girls Secondary School to enhance the computer skills of over 400 schoolgirls in Juba Girls Secondary School.
A three-day workshop to empower women and youth to participate in the political and electoral processes in South Sudan has just concluded in Aweil Town of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
Persons living with disability PWDs in Mayiendit County of Unity State have started to receive cash transfers from the Hope Restoration South Sudan (HRSS), a non-governmental organization, to facilitate their daily lives.
Eastern Equatoria state government has graduated 48 local government administrators after three months of training.
The United Nations and its partners on Wednesday launched a $1.7 billion Humanitarian Response Plan for Sudan to meet the needs of some 6.8 million vulnerable people in 2023.
A needy South Sudanese family in Kenya is appealing for financial aid to enable it meet medical costs for their son, who has been suffering from kidney failure.
Simon Sodya, head of the Maban youth association in Juba, said he was summoned for questioning by government officials in Juba last week following a radio interview.
As the festive season draws closer, citizens in Rumbek town of Lakes State urged the authorities to intensify security patrols in the area.
South Sudan police shot and killed five armed robbers during a shootout near the central bank in Juba on Friday.
A 12-year-old girl killed her father after a disagreement over unmet Christmas demands in Longechuk County in Upper Nile State last week, a local official said.
The National Security Service (NSS) has come out to deny what it called 'allegations' contained in a recent report by The Sentry titled 'Undercover Activities: Inside the National Security Service’s Profitable Playbook'.
The government of South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State has resolved to sponsor 16 primary and secondary school teachers annually to improve the education standards in the state.
The Youth Union in Wau of Western Bahr el Ghazal State has received ten desktop computers to advance computer literacy among the youth there.
The Malakia High Court in Juba has postponed the hearing of the case for compensation of families of the Pieri plane crash for January 2023.
A female welder in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, is inspiring people and breaking stereotypes with her choice of profession.
A group of bandits attacked a lorry carrying goats along the Kapoeta-Torit road in Eastern Equatoria State and made away with 250 goats on Thursday, local officials said.
Women leaders in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State are undergoing training by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) office in Aweil to enhance their participation in the country's politics.
The European Union (EU) has donated 25 million euros to three UN agencies, IOM, UNICEF, and WFP, to implement a three-year strategic project involving education, livelihoods, and social cohesion.
Peace deal monitors in South Sudan said peaceful and democratic elections for the country are possible in the next 24 months.
Armed youth raided more than 250 head of cattle in two separate attacks earlier in the week in Uror County of Jonglei State, local officials said.
The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons has urged the Government of South Sudan to redouble its efforts in preventing human trafficking for purposes of sexual exploitation, child marriage, recruitment, and forced labour.
At least 166 civilians have been killed and 237 injured in the last four months as clashes have intensified in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, a UN official revealed.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) concluded a one-day workshop for journalists and security personnel on accurate reporting of gender-based violence, family planning, and accountability.
The Governor of the Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) has said the Bank of South Sudan Act 2011 and the Banking Act 2012 should be amended to give the Central Bank more powers to monitor commercial banks and the banking system in the country.
A four-day HIV/AIDs national strategic plan development retreat kicked off in Torit in Eastern Equatoria State on Monday to review and find ways of combating the disease by 2030.
The Government of Japan, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has donated 7,034 metric tons of emergency relief items to South Sudan to help the flood-affected people across the country.
The final verdict by the high court in the case against Abraham Chol Maketh, a self-proclaimed prophet, is due on Friday this week, a defense lawyer said.
A project to promote resilience among women and youth was on Monday launched in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State by an organization called Women for Change.
Five South Sudanese human rights defenders were recognized and given awards by the South Sudan Human Rights Defenders Network (SSHRDN) for their outstanding work in promoting rights.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Monday commissioned the newly completed 63 kilometres Juba-Terekeka section. Residents expressed happiness about the project.
The authorities in Nyirol County in Jonglei State on Sunday received 11 abductees from the neighbouring Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA).
Amer Ateny, the Speaker of the Jonglei State Legislative Assembly, said they are not playing an oversight role effectively to ensure resources are prudently used by the executive.
The teaching staff at the University of Bahr el Ghazal, the University of Upper Nile, and Rumbek University have called off their strike to administer examinations.
Sudan’s political actors and international partners should ensure that progress on human rights and accountability for serious human rights violations are central to any new transition, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
A false Facebook post has been circulating on Facebook with claims that the South Sudan Ministry of Finance and Planning has opened a grant application worth $350M. The post is False.
South Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mayiik Ayii Deng is in Washington DC to represent President Slava Kiir Mayardit in the US- Africa Summit to be held on the 14th -16th of this month.
Two men, including a local pharmacist, have been arrested by the police in Rumbek of South Sudan's Lakes State for their alleged involvement in an abortion-related death, local officials said.
The police in Western Bahr el Ghazal's Wau town said they arrested a 30-year-old woman on Sunday for allegedly throwing her one-day-old baby into a nine-meter pit.
The South Sudan Peoples Defense Forces (SSPDF) says they have orders to use force against the 'white army', a group of armed youths, currently fighting in Upper Nile's Fashoda County, if they refuse to return to their areas in Jonglei State.
More than 6,000 schoolgirls will receive cash grants from Windle Trust International, a non-governmental organization, to help them continue with school in Unity State.
Health authorities in Twic East County in Jonglei State have decried a shortage of life-saving medicines in the county.
The South Sudanese Ministry of Health on Sunday declared a measles outbreak following confirmation of cases in the country.
A group of youth and chiefs from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) facilitated by the NGO Peace Canal are in Rumbek, Lakes State, for an exchange visit.
South Sudan's cabinet has passed the new enhanced civil service salary structure and directed the national finance ministry to include the changes in a supplementary budget.
The United Kingdom has announced sanctions against two county commissioners in South Sudan’s Unity State for alleged involvement in the perpetration of sexual violence.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir will officially launch the first phase of the Juba-Terekeka road, the government spokesperson announced.
Political actors in South Sudan’s capital Juba bear responsibility for much of the violence in Upper Nile State and must act to end it, a US diplomat said.
The Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) officials in Jonglei State say the humanitarian situation there is dire with about 384,000 people already going hungry due to the combined effects of floods and insecurity.
The Special High Court in Juba on Friday dismissed all the treason charges brought against former Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Governor of Kuel Aguer Kuel and acquitted him.
Operators of rickshaws and commercial motorcycles commonly known as ‘Boda-Boda’ on Thursday took to the streets in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, to protest what they call over taxation.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) Warrap State branch on Thursday elected its office bearers including the coordinator, secretary-general, and treasurer in Kuajok town.
The Special High Court in Juba on Thursday exonerated four people who were arrested alongside self-styled prophet Abraham Chol Maketh citing a lack of evidence.
The authorities of Warrap State said one policeman was killed while rescuing 28 cows raided from Manyang Ngok Payam of Tonj South County.
Civil society and the media must be protected so that they can hold the South Sudan National Security Service (NSS) and the government accountable, according to a report by investigative organization The Sentry.
The high-level delegation of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) arrived in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal state capital on Thursday.
The traffic police in South Sudan's Lakes State have arrested a rickshaw rider after he was involved in an accident that claimed the life of his assistant, a minor, on Tuesday.
Violence in South Sudan's Upper Nile State has displaced at least 20,000 people since August, some of whom are hiding in swamps, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the chairperson of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) while closing the four-day National Liberation (NLC) meeting in Juba vowed not to disappoint his supporters.
The UN’s acting Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan has said the humanitarian community in the country is appalled by the continuous violence that has a devastating impact on the lives and livelihoods of ordinary women, men, and children.
The Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM) on Tuesday warned that continued clashes in Upper Nile State and fighting by the rebel National Salvation Front (NAS) constitute a threat to the peace implementation.
The Bishop of the Episcopal Church Diocese of Kajo-Keji, Emmanuel Murye Modi is dead. He was flown to Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday night and admitted to the Nairobi Hospital where he breathed his last.
The deputy mayor for infrastructure and development at the Juba City Council (JCC) has justified and defended his slapping of a traffic police officer on 25 November in Buluk in Juba.
The chairperson of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Salva Kiir, on Tuesday confirmed the members of the National Liberation Council and Political Bureau.
A delegation of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) on Tuesday arrived in South Sudan’s capital Juba, marking the PBC's new engagement and the beginning of sustained collaboration on peacebuilding.
A two-week free eye campaign is underway in Aweil town of South Sudan's Northern Bahr el Ghazal State targeting about 1,000 eye patients.
Two abducted girls have been reunited with their families during a ceremony in Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) capital, Pibor town, on Tuesday, authorities said.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) on Tuesday this week trained journalists in Warrap State to effectively disseminate peace messages and promote gender quality in local languages.
Activist Bol Deng Bol and journalist Chol Kimani who were arrested by security officers in Bor town of Jonglei State on Monday morning, have been released without charges.
The Director General of the Directorate of Immigration, Passport, Nationality and Civil Registry on Monday said plans are in the advanced stages to start printing of the East African Community (EAC) e-passport within the country.
Health authorities in Lakes State on Monday confirmed that four children died from and nine others tested positive for measles as they announced an outbreak in Yirol West, Wulu and Cueibet counties.
Timo Olkkonen, the new Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to South Sudan, has said that the country cannot develop without security and the rule of law and that the importation of arms is not a priority.
The SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction led by Gen. Simon Gatwech on Monday accused SPLA-IO forces loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar of attacking their position in Tonga in Upper Nile State, a claim Machar’s forces deny.
The University of Bahr el Ghazal has postponed examinations which were scheduled to start on Monday, 5 December, to 12 December 2022.
Sudan's military and a faction of the pro-democracy group on Monday signed a political framework deal to end the political impasse and create a transitional civilian rule.
The Bishop of the Episcopal Church Diocese of Kajo-Keji, Emmanuel Murye Modi, is critically ill, a prominent Anglican Church leader said on Monday.
The National Liberation Council (NLC), the highest party organ of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has endorsed Salva Kiir's deputies.
Authorities in Rumbek Central County in Lakes State have confirmed that a suspect identified as Arang-rang Mayor Dut was last week apprehended for beheading a 13-year-old boy.
Farmers in South Sudan’s Yei River County are calling on the Central Equatoria State government to restore peace, security, and stability to allow them to embark on massive agricultural production by 2023.
The Finn Church Aid (FCA), with support from the Finnish Government’s foreign ministry, over the weekend graduated 43 women who completed six months of training in hairdressing and tailoring in Mingkaman in Awerial County of Lakes State.
A section of Juba City residents sounded out by Radio Tamazuj have decried the increment of passport fees and appealed to the government to revise the amount downwards.
Sudan's military and a faction of the pro-democracy coalition announced on Friday that they have reached a framework agreement to end the country's political crisis.
Kenya’s President William Ruto said his country will facilitate the cost-effective movement of goods from the port of Mombasa to South Sudan.
South Sudan’s military said it is preparing to send a battalion of 750 soldiers to DR Congo under the East African regional force tasked to restore peace in the country’s restive east.
Kenya’s President William Ruto is in South Sudan for a visit, according to Kenyan media.
The chairman of the SPLM party Salva Kiir Mayardit sought empowerment to fill the position of the party’s first deputy chairperson as part of plans to restructure the party.
A former state minister on Thursday dragged Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony to court over an alleged wrongful and forceful eviction from a government house despite being given an assignment by the national government.
The Government of South Sudan with support from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has launched the piloting Labour Market Information System (LMIS), a virtual tool that allows the production, storage, dissemination, and use of information on the labour market.
Local authorities in Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have recovered 11 children abducted from parts of the neighboring Jonglei state.
Two men were killed in a road ambush in Nyirol County of Jonglei State on Wednesday, local officials said.
The Greater Gogrial Communities Peace Tournament commenced at the Kuajok Freedom Square in Warrap State on Thursday under the theme 'To maintain peace and harmony'.
As Pope Francis plans to visit war-torn South Sudan early next year, a Catholic bishop urged all political parties to seek peace.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), regional bodies, and a section of the international community have expressed deep concern over the escalating violence between parties to the ongoing conflict and between communities in Upper Nile State and surrounding areas.
The national minister of health on Thursday revealed that South Sudan has seen an increase in new HIV/AIDS infections this year compared to 2021.
The defense team of former Northern Bahr el Ghazal Governor Kuel Aguer Kuel who is battling treason charges in the Special High Court in Juba wants the charges brought against their client dropped for lack of evidence.
The Political Bureau of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Tuesday approved the dismissal of the party’s former deputy chairman Dr. Riek Machar and former Secretary General Pagan Amum.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, while closing the sixth governors' forum in Juba on Wednesday, tasked the governors and administrators to implement the resolutions and recommendations of the just concluded meeting.
A body of a man was found floating on River Nile in the South Sudanese capital Juba on Wednesday morning, police said.
The teaching staff of the three public universities of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, and Rumbek has again gone on strike after last month’s downing of tools to demand better pay.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, Nicholas Haysom, on Wednesday, while briefing the meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council, said South Sudan had missed key timelines in the implementation of the peace agreement.
The authorities in the Abyei Administrative Area on Wednesday said that the prices of food commodities have been reduced after the local government intervened and supplied the market with subsidized food items.
Abraham Chol Makueth, a self-styled prophet, and leader of the Cush Ministries Church, on Wednesday, denied all charges brought against him by the prosecution in an ongoing court case and said he was exercising his right to express himself freely which is constitutional.
The governor of Western Equatoria state in South Sudan, Alfred Futuyo Karaba says there is a lack of cooperation in the state leadership leading to a strained relationship with his deputy.
“I am overjoyed to be able to continue my higher education,” said 17-year-old Hediya Wilfred Surur. “I need to support my aging parents, and further education will definitely help me get a good job,” she added.
The prosecution team in the ongoing hearing of the former Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Governor's treason case on Monday presented a Sudanese forensic expert before the court.
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Tuesday announced an increase in the number of scholarships for South Sudanese students in Ethiopian universities to 210.
Students at Torit Health Science Institute in Eastern Equatoria State on Monday went on an open-ended strike due to a hike in tuition fees of up to 160,000 SSP.
The Community of Sant'Egidio, which is mediating talks between the South Sudan government and holdout opposition groups, says it will not abandon the mediation process.
The Governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal State has called for political space for all parties in South Sudan to enjoy the freedoms of expression and association in preparations for democratic elections.
Sudan's military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, issued a decree on Monday freezing the activities of workers and employers unions, according to a statement by the ruling sovereign council he heads.
The military spokesperson of Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) has said they lost one soldier and two others were wounded in clashes with elements under the SSPDF in Upper Nile State’s Maiwut County over the weekend.
The minister of physical infrastructure, lands, and public utilities in Lakes State last week issued a one-week ultimatum for people occupying government land in Rumbek town to vacate.
UN experts attending the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) conference in London have said that if the Government of South Sudan is serious about tackling sexual violence, it should immediately remove from office and investigate governors and county commissioners credibly alleged to be complicit in systematic rape.
Thousands of cattle, sheep and goats were vaccinated in Twic and Tonj East counties of South Sudan’s Warrap State this week, a senior local official said.
The Rumbek town municipality in Rumbek County of Lakes State has launched a massive clean-up exercise to rid the town of garbage.
Nearly 10 million people in South Sudan will need food aid in 2023, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OOCHA).
The National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) has on Thursday presented the amended National Elections Act 2012 and the Southern Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
I watched and listened to the proceedings of the ongoing Governors’ Forum with trepidation on Wednesday as Information Minister Michael Makuei and his colleague Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro, the cabinet affairs minister, tried to outdo each other while justifying the lifting of the arms embargo on South Sudan.
The commissioner of Fashoda County in South Sudan's Upper Nile State says the county is witnessing runaway insecurity caused by violent conflict among armed groups in remote villages.
On the launch of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, the South Sudan Women, Peace and Security Working Group is calling on the government to increase resources for the fight against gender-based violence (GBV).
Judges constituting the mobile court from the South Sudan Justice ministry arrived in the Abyei Administrative Area Tuesday to try pending cases in a bid to reduce a backlog of cases there.
Authorities in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State are reporting an influx of voluntary returnees from the refugee camps in neighboring Uganda in September and October.
A man was killed as two local youth groups exchanged fire in Duk County of Jonglei state, a local official said.
The commissioner of Gumuruk County in Geater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) has sounded the alarm of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in parts of the county.
Prominent activist, Edmund Yakani, has called on the Governors' Forum ongoing in Juba, South Sudan to extensively discuss the poor state of hospitals including the funding situation after the Health Pooled Fund withdraws its support.
Six inmates at the Wau Main Prison in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have been diagnosed with chickenpox, a senior prisons officer said.
Sudanese health authorities on Wednesday announced the recording of 26 death cases due to an outbreak of dengue fever.
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the African Union to take "long-awaited" steps toward creating a promised war crimes tribunal to try atrocities committed during South Sudan's bloody five-year conflict.
Citizens in the Abyei Administrative Area are complaining about the surge in food prices in the market, saying they struggle to feed their families.
The detained Northern Bahr el Ghazal State’s Anti-corruption Commission Chairperson was released on bail on Monday pending trial, a local official said.
A top official from the UN on Tuesday emphasized the importance of women empowerment, meaningful participation, and leadership in the implementation of South Sudan's peace process.
Several students at the University of Juba have decried the recent rise in tuition fees and the introduction of an extra amount of USD 100 in developmental fees saying most of them cannot afford the new fees.
Government authorities in Raga County of Western Bahr El Ghazal State in South Sudan, say there is an increase in poaching in the county.
Residents of Wau's Baggari-Jedid neighborhood in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have received a newly constructed police station to curb crimes in the area.
A measles vaccination campaign has been launched in Rubkona County of South Sudan's Unity State targeting at least 170,000 people aged between six months and 15 years.
At least four children abducted during last week’s road ambush in Duk County in Jonglei state have been recovered in the neighboring Uror County, officials said.
The 6th Governors' Forum currently taking place in Juba, South Sudan is expected to discuss means to fast-track the implementation of the roadmap agreement by parties to the 2018 peace agreement.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with a $300,000 grant to establish a safe house in Juba, South Sudan for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors.
The National Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng last weekend inspected schools in Maridi County of Western Equatoria State.
A total of 9,499 unified forces graduated during a ceremony in the Upper Nile State capital, Malakal town, on Monday.
Police authorities in Aweil town of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have detained the state's anti-corruption boss Anei Rok Akuei since Friday for assaulting security forces.
Jonglei State Governor Denay Jock Chagor on Friday issued a decree suspending the commissioner of Bor County for allegedly disrespecting the state leadership.
The joint technical committee of South Sudan's National Revenue Authority (NRA) Customs Division and Customs General Administration of Sudan on Monday met in Juba to discuss ways to safely open borders to boost trade.
The authorities in Mayom County of Unity State say there has been an increase in snake bites as severe floods continue being experienced in parts of the area.
Unknown gunmen on Monday morning ambushed three passenger vehicles along the Juba-Nimule road, killing at least eight people, police said.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) headed by the First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny launched its secretariat and party registration in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State on Friday, a party official confirmed.
At least five people were killed and 15 others wounded in Tonj East County of South Sudan's Warrap State following revenge attacks over the weekend.
The Anyuak Community of Akobo County in Jonglei State is rejecting an ongoing survey of the county headquarters, Akobo town, saying it was not consulted and that the exercise could fuel inter-communal tensions there.
The South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is calling on the government to provide funds to allow it to collect data across the country.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit has pledged to donate SSP 15 million and a V6 Landcruiser to the new Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Torit during the centenary celebrations on Sunday.
Farmers in Terekeka County of Central Equatoria State said they had recorded high crop yields in this year’s crop harvest compared to previous years.
A woman and a boy abducted during last Thursday’s road ambush by gunmen in Duk County in Jonglei state have been found dead, a local official said.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says it is deeply concerned about emerging reports of violence in Fashoda County, Upper Nile State, between Shilluk armed youth and Nuer elements.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Country office in South Sudan on Friday received 7 million Euros from the European Union (EU) to provide protection services to South Sudanese refugees returning home.
The Dinka community in Bor County of Jonglei State and the Murle Community in Gumuruk County of the Greater Pibor Area have called for an inclusive conference to restore peace in the region.
Assistant High Commissioner for Operations at UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Raouf Mazou Friday called on the international community to provide South Sudan with climate-adapted development assistance to help it move away from dependency on humanitarian aid.
The army in Eastern Equatoria State on Thursday afternoon arrested a suspected highway robber for killing one person and injuring two other passengers along the Torit-Kapoeta road
Health authorities in South Sudan's Unity state have confirmed 51 cases of measles following an outbreak in Rubkona county.
Rachel Hakim emerged the winner of the Presidential Award for South Sudan in the East African Youth Innovation Forum with her innovation, GoGo Play, during the East African Youth Innovation Forum held in Kampala, Uganda from 8 to 9 November, a press statement.
A two-day peace-building conference targeting 250 youth within Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal State aimed at fostering social cohesion kicked off on Thursday.
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) on Thursday convened its first monthly members' meeting since the extension of the transitional period of the revitalized agreement peace, a press statement said.
A section of citizens sounded out by Radio Tamazuj in the restive Warrap State on Thursday disapproved of President Salva Kiir’s sacking of former Governor Gen. Aleu Ayieny and said the former had improved security in the state, while others said his time was up.
The commissioner of Rumbek East County in Lakes State, Mabor Makuac, has issued an order banning the sale of locally-made and imported alcoholic drinks in the county.
Officials in Jonglei State said 10 children and two women were abducted during a road ambush carried out by armed men on the outskirts of Uror County on Thursday morning.
At least 4,000 Necessary Unified Forces are expected to graduate in Unity State's Bentiu town on November 26, army officials said.
Media practitioners and civil society organizations in Western Bahr el Ghazal State are urged to disseminate information on child protection in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state.
The governor of Central Equatoria State has directed the mayor of Juba City Council and the state’s ministry of roads and bridges to demolish buildings that have been constructed on road reserves and are blocking access.
The Government of South Sudan on Wednesday signed the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) to move the country from humanitarian to development assistance.
The Government of South Sudan and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday inaugurated the new South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (SSRRC) office in Torit in Eastern Equatoria State.
A cholera vaccination campaign has been launched in Lakes State's Awerial County targeting about 70,000 people aged five and above, officials said.
The U.S. Embassy in Juba has announced the award of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Youth Empowerment Activity, a press statement said.
President Salva Kiir has fired his Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Peter Mayen Majongdit, amid rising hunger across the flood and conflict-affected areas.
The national Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare Aya Benjamin Warille has on Wednesday commissioned the first phase of the women and girls psychosocial center in Bentiu, Unity state.
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF), an International Non-Governmental Organization, last week started rolling out 3,400 anthrax vaccine doses for cattle and other livestock in Mayom County in Unity State, a state official said.
The deputy minister of information, communication, and postal services on Friday said that the Government of South Sudan cannot investigate the death of British-American journalist Christopher Allen because he was killed in a rebel-controlled area.
The operations manager of South Sudan Supreme Airlines has blamed the flight crew of their ill-fated plane which crashed in Jonglei State’s Uror County last year for carrying passengers without the airline’s authorization.
The SSPDF, under the auspices of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU), on Friday passed out 13,628 Necessary Unified Forces (NUF) who underwent training at three centers in the Bahr el Ghazal region.
A 70-year-old man was on Thursday killed in a revenge attack in Uror County in Jonglei state, the police said.
Two people sustained gunshot wounds and two children were abducted in a road ambush in Nyirol County in Jonglei state on Thursday, local officials said.
At least 97,000 people have reportedly been displaced within Sudan’s Blue Nile state and into neighboring states following the inter-communal conflict that reignited in mid-July, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Thursday announced the donation of seeds, tools, and equipment to six organizations based in South Sudan that will distribute them to smallholder farmers and nascent micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises to improve food security and livelihoods.
Al-Salam Football Club of Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal on Wednesday beat Zalzal Football Club 1-0 and were announced as the state champions by the Aweil Football Association.
The U.S Embassy in South Sudan has strongly condemned the comments made by national Information Minister Michael Makuei regarding the killing of American journalist Christopher Allen in 2017.
At least 12 South Sudanese were killed and 7 others injured after a passenger boat they were traveling in flipped after colliding with another boat along the River Sobat in Ethiopia’s Mathar Woreda area on Tuesday, a local official in Nasir town in Upper Nile State said.
At least three children died and six other people were injured when a swarm of bees attacked them in a canoe last week in Guit County of Unity State.
An advance team of the military high command led by the head of the Joint Transitional Security Committee (JTSC) in Bahr el Ghazal region Garang Ayii Akol arrived in Wau town of Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Wednesday ahead of Friday's graduation of unified forces.
Cordaid South Sudan, an international NGO Tuesday donated a brand new ambulance to Torit County of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state to facilitate referrals within the state.
The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Lakes state government handed over three new courtrooms and installed solar panels to the Rumbek high court on Monday.
Plans are underway to establish the FemWise-Africa South Sudan Chapter in the Republic of South Sudan, the minister of gender and social welfare said on Tuesday.
The staff of the University of Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the national government to implement salary structure adjustments to meet the current inflation rate or they go on strike.
Pope Francis has exuded confidence that he may finally visit South Sudan “early February” 2023 after his pastoral visit to the East African country was postponed in July this year, with the Holy Father’s doctor citing health challenges.
The governor of Central Equatoria State Emmanuel Adil Anthony signed and passed the 2022/2023 fiscal year budget in the presence of cabinet ministers, advisors, and lawmakers on Tuesday.
The Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Tuesday called off a parliamentary session following the death of Honorable Veronica Louis.
Members of the SPLM party led by President Salva Kiir were released from detention in Panyijiar County of Unity state on Friday last week.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last week handed over 290,000 livestock vaccines to the Warrap State ministry of animal resources and fisheries ahead of a planned vaccination campaign.
Sudan’s army on Monday named a new military commander for troubled Blue Nile state, where recent deadly tribal clashes left over 200 people dead.
Officials in South Sudan's Koch county in Unity State say more than 4,000 households, an equivalent of 10,000 people displaced by floods last week are in dire need of humanitarian support.
The Executive Director for Community Empowerment and Progress Organization, Edmund Yakani is calling on the SPLA-IO Kit-gwang splinter group of General Simon Gatwech and General Johnson Olony of the Agwelek forces to cease the ongoing fighting of their forces.
The two factions of the holdout opposition groups, South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA), have agreed to reunite, the Rome-based mediating body said.
At least three people were confirmed dead, and five others sustained serious injuries when a vehicle they were traveling in overturned along the Juba-Torit-Magwi road on Friday.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Friday handed over a new police post in Jur River County of Western Bahr el Ghazal State to enhance security.
Authorities in Nyirol County of Jonglei State have banned social gatherings and called for the strict compliance of Covid-19 safety measures following a surge in cases.
Thousands of households displaced by floods and conflicts are in dire need of food and non-food items in the disputed territory of Abyei, local officials said.
The Obira Community in Torit is calling on the Eastern Equatoria State authorities to investigate the killing of one of its members in Haforiere village last week.
Thirty-five fistula sufferers were treated during a fistula campaign at St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau town of Western Bahr al Ghazal State on Thursday.
Community Development Center (CDC), a national NGO in Yei River County, has distributed 170 speaker box radio sets to community listener groups in Kupera Payam of Lainya County and Mugwo Payam of Yei River County.
South Sudan’s Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved the electronic payment for civil servants' salaries to weed out ghost names.
Lawmakers in Jonglei State Legislative Assembly on Thursday broke off for a 3-month recess period.
Traders and drivers complain about the poor condition of the Juba-Yei-Kaya road, saying they face huge difficulties while using the road.
Authorities in Morobo County of Central Equatoria State have accused some SPLA-IO forces stationed in Payume payam of committing crimes against civilians that have led to massive displacement.
The Young Stars Football Club was crowned champions of the South Sudan Cup in Torit Town of Eastern Equatoria State after beating Volcano FC 8 goals to 7 in a penalty shootout on Tuesday.
Heavy rains in Western Bahr el Ghazal state on Wednesday washed off parts of the Sofo Bridge that connects Raja County to Wau County.
A one-day dialogue aimed at building peace and trust among communities of Leer, Mayendit, and Koch counties in Unity State concluded Tuesday with calls for peace in the region.
The South Sudan cabinet has approved an additional $30 million for setting up mechanisms to monitor and control the hemorrhagic Ebola virus from entering the country.
Authorities in Rubkona County in Unity State have said that an old man identified as Bim Kuol drowned in floodwaters there on Tuesday morning.
The police have begun moving in to make some arrests in Malakal town of Upper Nile State, hoping to quell violent protests sparked by the transfer of employees.
The government of Western Equatoria State on Monday mourned the death of Hezekiah Philip, a member of the state legislative assembly.
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A joint human rights report published by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has documented gross violations and abuses of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law in South Sudan’s Unity State,” a Monday press release said.
The commissioner of Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State over the weekend gave the Haforiere community one week to hand over a suspect who killed a motorcyclist along the Torit Hiyala road last week.
Authorities in Mayiendit County of Unity State have said that a total of 11 people have drowned in flood waters while 21 others were bitten by snakes and 8,840 households have been displaced from their homes in the last three months.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police in Uganda is hunting city socialite Charles Olim, also known as Sipapa, over his alleged involvement in a robbery in which USD 429,000 was stolen from the home of a South Sudanese on the night of 28 August.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party over the weekend officially launched an exercise to register its members and issue them with membership cards in Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State.
Floods in Sudan have left 12 more people dead over the past week, a Sudanese official said Monday, bringing the floods death toll since the start of the rainy season to 112.