South Sudan

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The United Nations Security Council voted to extend for a year the peace keeping mission in South Sudan. The resolution sets the end of the mission’s mandate on March 15th, 2023. The current level of deployment should remain unchanged…

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The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has visited the areas affected by flooding in the north of the country. It's estimated that up to 850,000 residents have been impacted by the weather in the country's Unity state.…

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Five people were killed when a cargo plane carrying fuel for the UN's World Food Programme crashed near South Sudan's capital Juba, airport officials said. The aircraft a Soviet-era Antonov An-26 transport plane crashed shortly after…

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South Sudan on Friday lauded the decision by the Ugandan government to scrap visa requirements for travellers from the country. The country’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement issued in Juba that its nationals will now be free…

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Thousands of individuals and major regions have been affected by flooding in South Sudan.  “Up to 90,000 individuals have been affected by the flooding in South Sudan’s eastern state, Jonglei” The UN humanitarian affairs agency…

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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, in a speech marking 10 years of independence has pledged not to return the country to war. At midnight on July 9, 2011, raucous celebrations erupted as the world’s newest nation was born and the people…

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South Sudan is seeking to ramp up oil output and build refining capacity in an enduring effort to revive an economy that has suffered from war and a global pandemic. Oil production accounting for nearly all government revenue…

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South Sudan’s army said on Wednesday that an urgent commencement of civilian disarmament is needed to mitigate inter-communal violence in the country. Spokesperson for South Sudan People’s Defence Forces, Lul Ruai Koang, said the new…

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South Sudan is stuck with more than 126,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines due to low turn up as only 6,403 people have received COVID-19 doses since April when the vaccination started. COVID-19 Incident Manager in the Ministry of Health,…

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South Sudan is planning to dispose 60,000 expired doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Read Also: South Sudan rolls out mass Covid-19 vaccination drive The Covid-19 incident manager at the health ministry, Richard Lako,  disclosed…