[allAfrica] Geneva -- Sudan's war has disrupted its urban economy, once a mainstay, with formal wage employment sharply declining, pushing many into precarious self-employment or informal labour, offering scant security with health and education equa...

[SAFA] Coach Hugo Broos' irrepressible charges were once again in devastating form as they beat South Sudan 3-0 in a 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier that could have had a far more unflattering final scoreline on another day.

[WFP] Juba -- Alarming new food security data from South Sudan shows that 57 per cent of the population will be acutely food insecure through the 2025 lean season with returnees fleeing the war in Sudan and young children facing some of the highest l...

[Dabanga] New York -- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has approved an extension of the mandate for the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) until 2025. The decision preserves the current troop and police levels while ca...

[MSF] Juba -- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) at the Renk Civil Hospital in South Sudan, in response to a cholera outbreak declared by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on 28 October. We call on al...

[VOA] Juba, South Sudan -- The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has called for tangible evidence of progress toward democratic elections the country.

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[State Department] Following the United Nations Security Council's designation of two Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanders on November 8, the Treasury Department is today sanctioning Abdel Rahman Joma'a Barakallah (Barakallah), the RSF West Darfur C...

[MSF] An alarming number of children suffering from severe malaria have been admitted to Aweil state hospital, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the paediatric and maternity wards, in Northern Bahr El-Ghazal state, South Sudan, over...

[The Herald] Kenya on Thursday launched seminal exports to more countries under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) with the inaugural shipment of 35 containers to South Sudan, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

[The Conversation Africa] Salva Kiir Mayardit has served as South Sudan's president since the country's independence in 2011. South Sudan's secession from Sudan came on the heels of a long and bloody civil war that resulted in a referendum on indepen...

[UN News] The decision to extend the transition period in South Sudan once again and postpone long-awaited elections cannot be "business as usual", the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Thursday.

[The New Humanitarian] Malakal, South Sudan -- 'There is no house, no food, and no place to sleep for the children.'

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Parties involved in South Sudan's peace process have agreed to resume mediation in Nairobi to address outstanding issues.

[UNHCR] Ten years ago, 60-year-old Teresa was forced to flee deadly conflict in her hometown in Malakal town, northeastern South Sudan. Her search for safety for her then three children and husband led her to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, where they set...

[Nile Post] Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Juba today to hold discussions with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit as part of ongoing efforts to foster peace, stability, and development in South Sudan.

[SAFA] The South African Football Association (SAFA) can confirm that tickets to the highly anticipated encounter - to be played on Tuesday, 19 November 2024 - have gone on sale and they are available at TicketPro outlets, Spar, SuperSpar, Putco, Pos...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto is set to jet off to Juba today for an official visit to consolidate the South Sudanese political transition through the Tumaini Peace Consensus.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives has approved a $738.2 million loan to South Sudan for the construction of a major cross-border highway aimed at connecting the two countries.

[CAF] The first round of the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers concluded this weekend, with several teams booking their places in the next stage through hard-fought matches.

[New Times] Rwanda and South Sudan will lock horns in the second and final round of the 2025 CHAN qualifiers which will take place in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from February 1-28, 2025.

[UN News] South Sudan is facing a spiralling humanitarian crisis with hunger and cholera cases escalating in several parts of the country. UN agencies on Friday called for more international support and interventions to ease the widespread suffering.

[WFP] Juba -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently appealing to donors to provide early funding for next year's operations in South Sudan so the food agency can preposition food to prevent spiralling operational costs and hunger ...

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[MSF] South Sudan is currently facing one of its worst floods in recent decades. In Old Fangak, where teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are working, only mud dykes protect the town's thousands of inhabitants from submersion.

[SNA] Portsudan -- Sudan announced its readiness to convey South Sudan's oil from the South Sudanese fields to all parts of the world via ships at Bashayer Port in Portsudan.

[SNA] Portsudan -- President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, has received a written message from the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit,...

[VOA] Juba, South Sudan -- South Sudan is making significant strides in addressing the gender gap in education by reintegrating teenage mothers into schools, experts say.

[New Times] Col. Nittin Mamgain, Sector North Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, commended the Rwandan peacekeepers deployed in the country's Upper Nile region, Malakal. He said that the Rwandan Battalion 2 (Rwanbatt 2) played pi...

[The Conversation Africa] The Nuer are a large pastoralist community living in western Ethiopia and South Sudan in east Africa. They rely on livestock keeping and have special beliefs and customs about how to live with nature. These are passed down f...