[DW] Germany's health minister, Jens Spahn, is in South Africa as part of an initiative to assist vaccine production on the continent. But improving manufacuting capacity is still set to be a long journey.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- South Sudan is set to become a party to the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC), an institution of the East African Community (EAC).

[USAID] In recent months, South Sudan has seen a troubling rise in violence against humanitarian workers, including the killing of two aid workers this month. The United States condemns this violence and calls on the Government of South Sudan to prot...

[HRW] UN Security Council Should Renew Embargo, Demand Concrete Rights Reforms

[Radio Dabanga] Juba -- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Integrated Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, has called on all parties at the Juba peace talks "to grasp the chance for pe...

[Radio Dabanga] Juba -- The long-anticipated official negotiations between the transitional government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), under the leadership of Abdelaziz El Hilu, began in the South Sudan capital of ...

[East African] South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday evening formed a committee to dialogue with Sudan over the disputed Abyei area.

[Nation] Once upon a time, Ms Emuria Aburo had a big herd of cattle.

[Nation] As South Sudanese continue to writhe under the crushing consequences of war and violence, it seems more and more like the warring leaders are unwilling to work for peace. This is despite multiple peace agreements they have signed over the ye...

[VOA] Juba, South Sudan -- The South Sudan National Security Service this week arrested 12 people suspected of abducting, torturing and killing people along highways linking the capital, Juba, to other states and demanding ransom from their relatives...

[UNHCR] Refugees in South Sudan are receiving COVID-19 jabs during the rollout of the country's national vaccination campaign, joining Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda in including refugees in their COVID-19 vaccination plan in the East African Reg...

[East African] The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has deployed forces in Dunguop village of Abyei town after an attack on civilians left at least 11 people dead and seven others injured, according to the area deputy administ...

[New Frame] Instead of celebrating the senior women's national football team's first participation in an international friendly, the country has had to hang its head in shame over the sexist and violent conduct of a government minister.

[East African] South Sudan's President Salva Kiir failed to meet a crucial aspect of gender balance in the formation of the government of national unity when he recently announced a reconstituted legislative assembly.

[AI London] Lifting the UN arms embargo on South Sudan could have dire consequences for human rights, Amnesty International warned today, ahead of a UN Security Council vote on 27 May to decide the future of the embargo.

[ISS] Climate change poses serious security threats in Africa. Global organisations, regional communities and countries are increasingly recognising this fact, but that isn't enough - urgent action is needed.

[Nation] Juba -- Separate incidents of inter-communal clashes and road attacks in some parts of South Sudan have left at least 26 people dead, according to local reports.

[East African] With an eye on the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan markets, there is renewed vibrancy on the Northern Corridor, as Uganda and Kenya join forces to push the rehabilitation and seamless connection of the old metre gauge rail...

[UN News] The top UN humanitarian official in South Sudan has called for law enforcement along roads following the first killing of an aid worker in the country this year during an ambush in Budi, East Equatoria, on Wednesday.

[Nation] Few South Sudanese would contest the reality that their beloved country has collapsed.

[VOA] Juba -- South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday reconstituted the National Legislative Assembly, one day after he dissolved the 400-member parliament in accordance with the revitalized peace agreement.

[East African] Juba -- South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Monday night reconstituted parliament, paving the way for the formation of the Revitalized Transitional Legislative Assembly as stipulated in the 2018 peace agreement.

[Monitor] Somali president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed also known as Farmaajo, his Burundian counterpart, Évariste Ndayishimiye and South Sudan's Salva Kiir arrived Tuesday in Uganda ahead of President Yoweri Museveni's inauguration ceremony which wi...

[The Conversation Africa] South Sudan's Chief Justice, Chan Reec Madut, has been implicated in serious corruption allegations since independence. Some relate to the recruitment process within the judiciary. Others relate to overstepping the bounds of...

[Nation] Kenya's Harambee Starlets will face-off with South Sudan in the first round of the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Awcon) qualifiers to be held in Morocco from July 2 to 23.

[State Department] U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth will travel to South Sudan from May 9 to May 13, 2021. Special Envoy Booth will hold meetings with government officials, political stakeholders, and civil society and intern...

[FAO] Rome -- Director-General says FAO will "stay and deliver" to support vulnerable communities

[VOA] Bor, South Sudan -- Civil society activists and residents in the capital of South Sudan's Jonglei state have accused state officials of stealing food donated by President Salva Kiir that was meant for flood victims.

[Nation] Juba -- Police in South Sudan have offered cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the mysterious gangs attacking Kenyan and Ugandan drivers on its highways.

[New Times] Angelina Jany Teny, South Sudan Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs, was on Tuesday, received at Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) headquarters by defence minister Maj Gen Albert Murasira.