By Daniel Friday Martin YEI, SOUTH SUDAN - With an eye toward ending intercommunal violence that killed dozens of people last month in Central Equatoria state, South Sudanese religious leaders and...
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Amid Challenges, South Sudan Vaccination Drive Tackles Measles
By Chika Oduah Updated March 19, 2020 02:59 PM JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - Shejirina Moni sits beside her children in front of their makeshift home in a shanty community in South Sudan's capital Juba. Six of...
Rival South Sudan Leaders Agree to Form Government
By VOA News February 20, 2020 10:41 AM Rival leaders of South Sudan have agreed to form a unity government as they seek to end a six-year-old civil war that has devastated the world's youngest...
Committee Urges Swift Formation of South Sudan Unity Government
By Dimo Silva Aurelio January 16, 2020 03:05 PM JUBA - A committee formed to help resolve disputes over the boundaries and number of South Sudan states has turned the issue over to arbitration,...
Sudan Peace Talks With Rebels Begin in Juba
By Waakhe Simon Wudu October 18, 2019 05:51 PM JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - Talks among the Sudanese government, the rebel SPLM-North faction and two smaller Sudanese rebel groups began Friday in Juba. After...
Sudan Talks Delayed After Attacks in Nuba Mountains
By Waakhe Simon Wudu October 16, 2019 03:53 PM JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - The SPLM-North (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North) faction based in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains suspended peace talks in Juba with...
South Sudan Gets Mobile Money Service
By Sheila Ponnie July 24, 2019 07:14 PM JUBA - South Sudanese technology firms have launched the country's first mobile money transfer platform, M-Gurush. It allows customers to pay for goods and...
Sudan’s Mobile Internet Restored After Power Sharing Deal
By Naba Mohiedeen July 10, 2019 01:25 PM KHARTOUM - Sudanese authorities have restored internet services more than a month after they were cut off when the military violently broke up protests...
IRC Urges New Approach to Malnutrition in S. Sudan
April 19, 2019 4:38 PM Carol Van Dam More than 750,000 South Sudanese children under age 5 are expected to face acute malnutrition this year, according to the International Rescue Committee. The...
Program Reunites S. Sudanese Separated During War
March 22, 2019 9:31 PM Dimo Silvo Aruelio JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Tens of thousands of civilians who fled the South Sudanese city of Malakal during fighting that broke out in 2013 are slowly returning...
Medair CEO Sees Good, Bad in South Sudan
By Carol Van Dam Since 1992, humanitarian organization Medair has been one of the most active relief organizations in what was then southern Sudan, responding to sudden emergencies such as mass...
South Sudan's President Calls for No Revenge Attacks
WAU, SOUTH SUDAN — South Sudan's president is calling on his people to refrain from revenge attacks, as the country tries to move on from a brutal civil war. Speaking Tuesday in the town of Wau,...
Thousands of Displaced South Sudanese 'Suffering' Without Food, Water
Daniel Friday Martin YEI - Officials in South Sudan's Yei River State say thousands of people who fled their homes during fighting over the past two weeks are without food or clean water. The Relief...
Sudan President Reportedly Softens Stance Amid Protests
February 07, 2019 4:25 PM Ayen Bior Sudan's crackdown on anti-government protesters could jeopardize efforts to normalize relations with the United States, some key U.S. observers say. Since protests...
Solar Power Brings Water to South Sudan Neighborhood
JUBA — At least 5,000 residents in and around the South Sudanese capital now have access to clean drinking water after the opening of a U.S.-funded, solar-powered water distribution system in the...
South Sudan Army Accused of 'Brutal' Sexual Violence
John Tanza A group of human rights lawyers has filed a lawsuit against the government of South Sudan for sexual violence on behalf of 30 women and girls who were allegedly raped by members of the...
S. Sudan Peace Raises Prospect of Release of Child Soldiers
Lisa Schlein GENEVA — The U.N. secretary-general's special representative for children and armed conflict says a chief benefit of peace in South Sudan is the likelihood that many child soldiers will...
South Sudanese Women Want Political Quota Respected
John Tanza South Sudanese women leaders are calling on the president to give 35 percent of executive appointments to women, as agreed to in the recently revitalized peace deal. On Tuesday, President...
South Sudan Rebel Leader Changes Course, Agrees to Sign Peace Deal
A Sudanese negotiator says South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar has decided to sign the latest draft of a revitalized peace deal to end the country's devastating five-year old civil war. Machar had...
1 Dead in Inter-Communal Fighting at South Sudan UN Camp
JUBA — One person was killed and three others critically wounded just outside South Sudan's capital in the latest fighting between internally displaced persons at a United Nations-run Protection of...