Cases of eye infections and diarrhoea reported at Yusuf Batil camp, Maban
Infections resulting in sight problems have been recorded at Yusuf Batil refugee camp in Maban County, Upper Nile State, according to South Sudanese health authorities.read more
View ArticleNo electricity in Juba City for six to eight weeks
Juba City will not have electricity for the next six to eight weeks due to a lack of spare parts to maintain generators, said Minister of Electricity and Dams Jema Nunu Kumba.read more
View ArticleCholera case total in South Sudan stands at more than 1700
South Sudan’s Ministry of Health announced that 1,720 cholera cases including 37 deaths have been reported in South Sudan since the start of the outbreak, according to data current to 14 June 2014.read...
View ArticleFresh round of South Sudan peace talks delayed by opposition boycott
Peace talks between South Sudan’s warring parties were delayed when the opposition boycotted the opening of a new round of talks in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, after objecting to the process by...
View ArticleSudan bombs MSF hospital in South Kordofan
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Tuesday that Sudan's air force bombed their hospital in Farandalla, South Kordofan state during an air raid on Monday tharead...
View ArticleStrike at Nimule border crossing over illegal taxes
Customs clearance agents have gone on strike in Nimule, Eastern Equatoria, stranding hundreds of trucks at the border checkpoint between South Sudan and Uganda.read more
View ArticleUN to build girls' dormitory in Juba Orphanage
The UN Refugee Agency has announced that it will construct a girls’ dormitory at the Juba Orphanage in partnership with South Sudan’s Ministry of Gender, Children, Social Welfare, Humanitarian Affairs...
View ArticleSouth Sudan wants apology from IGAD for ‘warmonger’ article
Salva Kiir’s government has asked for an apology for remarks made by Mahboub Maalim, the executive secretary of IGAD, the East African regional organization mediating peace talks with South Sudan’sread...
View ArticleInter-communal clashes kill 25 people in Lakes State
At least 25 people from the Rumbek Centre and Rumbek North were killed and another 40 people wounded in inter-communal clashes in Lakes State, South Sudan, on 14 June, according to local authoritieread...
View ArticleUpper Nile State employees demand arrears and reject return to Malakal
Civil servants displaced from the devastated capital of Upper Nile State to South Sudan’s national capital Juba have protested a directive to return to the state and demanded unpaid wages.read more
View ArticleDozens of stranded Sudanese evacuated from Bentiu camp
Dozens of Sudanese nationals who have been stranded at the UN-protected camp in the town of Bentiu in South Sudan have been evacuated to Khartoum via Juba International Airport.read more
View ArticleEthiopian general appointed to key role in UNMISS
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Tuesday the appointment of Lieutenant-General Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam of Ethiopia as the Force Commander for the United Nations Mission in South...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese judges begin five-week training course
A five-week long training for 40 judges of South Sudanese courts kicked off in Juba on Monday. The training is facilitated by leading African and South Sudanese scholars.read more
View ArticleCustoms clearance agents lift strike at Nimule border crossing
Customs clearance agents in Nimule town in Eastern Equatoria state announced that they will resume their work today after they went on strike yesterday stranding hundreds of trucks at the border...
View ArticleSudan: Mothers say their sons tortured in Khartoum
Relatives of detained students and activists in Khartoum have accused the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of subjecting the detainees to torture. They called for the UN human rights...
View ArticleICC demands investigation of UN cover-up in Darfur
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, requested the UN on Tuesday to investigate allegations that UNAMID intentionally covered up crimes in Darfur.read more
View ArticleSudan: Ex-Bashir ally doubts ‘National Dialogue’ will go forward
A key militia group in Sudan’s west formerly aligned to the government has cast doubt on whether the ruling party will continue with plans for the National Dialogue initiative earlier announced by the...
View ArticleSuspected cholera cases reported in Torit
A health official in Eastern Equatoria said they received reports of eight suspected cholera cases in Torit town, marking the spread of the disease from Juba.read more
View ArticlePolitics: South Sudan denies planning to exclude opposition from interim...
South Sudan’s government has denied a report that Vice President James Wani Igga said members of SPLM-in-Opposition should not be allocated seats in the proposed interim government, which the country’s...
View ArticlePolitics: Minor parties jockey for places at S Sudan peace talks
Minor political parties in South Sudan are aiming for seats at the IGAD-mediated peace talks in Addis Ababa and encouraging the two factions of SPLM, the now-divided party that dominated South Sudanese...
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