22nd May, 2013) - Authorities in Rubkona County of Unity State are raising concern about the existence of land mines in Kaljak Payam.

Speaking to Radio Miraya the payam administrator, Charles Mut Babur says mines exist mainly by the river side in Boitong area.

Mut said many of the mines were remnants from the Sudan civil war.

(12th May, 2013) - The number of cases in a Meningitis outbreak has risen to 90 in Upper Nile State, Health Minister Michael Milly Hussein said.

He said the situation was under control, but warned the outbreak is an alarm bell to states in the northern part of the country that lie within the meningitis belt.

People should minimize socialization to reduce the spread and immediately report suspected cases of the disease for quick intervention, Mr Milly said.

(7th May, 2013) - Humanitarian agencies are working on emergency interventions for communities facing hunger in Panyijar, Unity State, where at least 20 starved to death in April.

Read: 20 starve to death in Unity State

Seeds, alongside cash for work, will be delivered to the affected communities soon, said Cathy Haward, the Deputy Head of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

(6th May, 2013) - Three people are reported dead and seventy more are receiving treatment of meningitis in Malakal Teaching Hospital in Upper Nile State.

The State’s Health Minister, Charles Yor Odhok, said ten centers have been identified for the meningitis vaccination. “We have seven health centers functioning in the town and then we will establish other three places in the sites which were known to citizens through the malaria campaign last year. We have one in Hai Tenmaia, Hai Salam and Hai Mathar,” he told Radio Miraya on Thursday.

(2nd May, 2013) - The government is providing food and non-food items to ex-militias who have laid down their guns in response to a presidential pardon.

About 900 former fighters and their families, who are camped in Mayom County, are beneficiaries of the assistance, Deputy Unity State Governor Michael Chanjiak said.

Chanjiak said officials were meeting with the communities within Mayom to urge them to peacefully coexist with the ex-militias as they await transportation to Juba.

(29th April, 2013) - Twenty people are believed to have starved to death in Panyijar County, Commissioner Simon Chol Biel said.

Mr Chol said the hunger was brought on by floods that destroyed crops and cattle raids that left communities without a source of livelihood.

"The deaths were reported in April alone", he said.

“I was told sixteen people died in Nyal but when I went to Ganyliel to return the cattle back to Nyang county, four people died of hunger in my presence,” Chol told Radio Miraya.

(25th April 2013) - The Japanese government will start in June to rebuild Juba Bridge at a cost of US$ 80 million.

The Japanese government’s International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will use stronger, more permanent materials that can sustain heavy traffic.

JICA chief representative in South Sudan Atsushi Hanatani says the bridge will be completed in 2016.

Hanatani said the reconstruction of Juba Bridge is one of three projects the Japanese government is to start this year.

“The second one is the expansion of the water supply system in Juba”

(21st April, 2013) A new peace campaign focusing on two counties in Jonglei State is expected to improve human rights and livelihoods.

(19th April 2013) - It is now calm in Budi County in Eastern Equatoria State after suspected cattle raiders killed at least eight people and stole more than 700 cattle a week ago.

Security forces have been deployed in the area to prevent further attacks and efforts are being made to recover the stolen cattle, state information minister Felix Otuduho said.

Eyewitnesses told Radio Miraya that some medical workers were killed and a health center was destroyed during a cattle recovery operation in Lorema village.