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JUBA (9News Nigeria) – Hundreds of civilians, including three aid workers, were killed in a series of tribal clashes in villages in South Sudan’s vast Read more
JUBA (9News Nigeria) – The United Nations has sent a contingent of peacekeepers to an area of central South Sudan where about 80 people have Read more
A commercial plane carrying 22 people crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday and killed 18 people, a local official said. According to Read more
Fighters loyal to an exiled former deputy president in South Sudan have attacked government forces in Unity state, leading to the deaths of 25 people Read more
South Sudan’s plan to hold elections next year risks “deepening and extending” an already devastating civil war, the United Nations warned. Haile Menkerios, the UN Read more
A Sudanese court has sentenced a student member of the opposition Sudanese Congress Party to death. Asim Omar Hassan was convicted under Article 130 of Read more
The number of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda hit one million on Thursday, the United Nations said, as hundreds of desperate families pour across the Read more
South African President, Jacob Zuma has just survived a vote of no confidence procedure that could have led to his impeachment. Despite the ballot being Read more
By Denis Dumo and Tom Miles JUBA/GENEVA (Reuters) – South Sudan is no longer classified as being in famine, although 45,000 people in Jonglei and Read more
By David Lewis JUBA (Reuters) – The United Nations called on South Sudan’s leaders to take more responsibility for stemming the world’s fastest growing refugee Read more
At least 15 children have died in South Sudan from a botched attempt to immunise them against measles, officials say. They were vaccinated with the Read more
South Sudanese soldiers accused of raping at least five foreign aid workers and killing their local colleague last year are due to stand trial in Read more
JUBA – The South Sudanese government on Friday freed a local journalist working for a United Nations radio station who spent two and a half years Read more
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egypt on Tuesday of supporting rebels at war with Khartoum, a week ahead of a visit to Cairo by Sudan’s Read more
The president of war-ravaged South Sudan declared a unilateral ceasefire on Monday and promised to release political prisoners, but with no sign of a political Read more
Seven South Sudanese opposition groups, including that of rebel leader Riek Machar, said on Saturday they had agreed to work closely in their bid to Read more
War and famine have forced more than 2 million children in South Sudan to flee their homes, creating the most worrying refugee crisis in the Read more
South Sudan’s government has increased registration fees nearly six-fold for international aid groups seeking to operate in the war-torn nation, an official told Reuters. Two Read more
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Rebels with the South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO), allied with rebel leader Riek Machar, on Friday attacked Raja Read more
Three men working as porters for the U.N.’s World Food Programme were killed in ethnic violence in South Sudan’s Wau city earlier this week, the Read more
At least 16 people were killed in the South Sudanese town of Wau on Monday, said the United Nations, as witnesses said ethnic militiamen went Read more
South Sudan has suspended plans to charge foreign workers a $10,000 work permit fee, the finance minister said, after criticism that it would create a Read more
A plane belonging to a small South Sudanese airline crash-landed at the airport of the northwestern town of Wau on Monday, injuring several passengers, local Read more
JUBA – South Sudanese rebels said on Monday they had kidnapped four oil workers including a Pakistani national, in a bid to force their Chinese and Read more
JUBA – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said on Friday he had pardoned two senior government officials and promised to release other political prisoners, as Read more
JUBA (Reuters) – A disaffected South Sudanese army general who quit his position last month announced on Monday that he had formed a new anti-government Read more
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will provide additional aid money to South Sudan, where famine has been declared in parts of the country, and to Somalia, Read more
The United Nations’ children’s agency Unicef is warning that almost one-and-a-half million children are at risk of starvation in South Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen and Somalia. Read more
UNHCR appeals to government and rebels to find political solution to crisis as more than 1.5 million flee country. The number of refugees who have Read more
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously extended its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan for another year. The U.S.-drafted resolution says the council also will Read more
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