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SOUTH SUDAN SOLDIERS FACE TRIAL FOR RAPE AND MURDER


Thirteen soldiers are accused of raping five foreign aid workers and killing their local colleague in July 2016 ... READ MORE

30th May, 2017 328

SOUTH SUDAN FORCES HAVE COMMITTED CAPITAL CRIMES


The pursuit of Machar ushered in a particularly violent period in South Sudan's Equatorias region, with multiple localised conflicts, particularly in Yei, the report said... READ MORE

19th May, 2017 1420

SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT RESTRUCTURES ARMY, CHANGES ITS NAME TO SSDF


South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has restructured the army and changed its name - Sudan People Liberation Army SPLA - to South Sudan Defense Forces SSDF ... READ MORE

16th May, 2017 13

SOUTH SUDAN'S KIIR REPLACES ARMY CHIEF PAUL MALONG


South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed Paul Malong, the war-torn country's powerful army chief of staff... READ MORE

10th May, 2017 252

JUBA IN THE SPOTLIGHT: ONGOING TURMOIL IN THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST CAPITAL


One year into South Sudan's new transitional government, Juba is still struggling to cope with insecurity, poverty and conflict... READ MORE

8th May, 2017 483

2M CHILDREN DISPLACED BY SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT


The civil war in South Sudan has forced more than two million children to flee their homes, according to two UN agencies... READ MORE

8th May, 2017 2256

'THEY ARE KILLING CIVILIANS HOUSE TO HOUSE'


Thousands of frightened people have also taken refuge on the grounds of the Catholic cathedral in Wau, the biggest in all of South Sudan... READ MORE

4th May, 2017 763

'THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY'RE TOO HUNGRY'


'They sleep when they're too hungry' South Sudanese trapped by war, famine grow increasingly desperate... READ MORE

3rd May, 2017 2435

SOUTH SUDAN REFUGEES RELEASE U.N. CONGO MISSION STAFF


They were among 530 people who have been living in the Munigi base, outside Goma, since fleeing South Sudan last August, U.N... READ MORE

19th April, 2017 247

FIGHTING IN SOUTH SUDAN'S RAGA KILLS AT LEAST 14 PEOPLE


At least 14 people have been killed in South Sudan after new fighting erupted between government forces and the main rebel group... READ MORE

16th April, 2017 1626

S. SUDANESE COURT ORDERS RETRIAL OF FRAUD CASE AGAINST PRESIDENTIAL STAFFERS


The case against officials in President Salva Kiir's office accused of stealing millions of dollars from the state by forging the president's signature will be retried... READ MORE

12th April, 2017 4

SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT KIIR ORDERS ARREST OF PERPETRATORS OF RECENT VIOLENCE


The president made this order on Tuesday during a cabinet meeting in Juba... READ MORE

12th April, 2017 3

DUOP CAN YOU HEAR ME A CHILD SOLDIER TRIES TO GO HOME AGAIN


But Unicef officials said there was nowhere in South Sudan that had the specialists Duop needed. Duop retreated to a cot in his aunt's shack... READ MORE

4th April, 2017 2855

SIX AID WORKERS KILLED IN AN AMBUSH IN SOUTH SUDAN


Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying what organisation they worked for... READ MORE

27th March, 2017 4349

ANTONIO GUTERRES: SALVA KIIR IS IGNORING FAMINE


The Security Council is divided over two ways to step up pressure on South Sudan's government-an arms embargo, or sanctions on additional people blocking peace... READ MORE

24th March, 2017 1255

SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASHES, ALL 49 PASSENGERS, CREW SURVIVE


A passenger plane crash-landed and burned in Wau, northwestern South Sudan on Monday, but all 49 passengers and crew survived, an airport official said... READ MORE

21st March, 2017 2688

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AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY


MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE

23rd June, 2015 4415

ETHIOPIA REPORTS DEADLY RAID BY GUNMEN FROM SOUTH SUDAN


He said Ethiopian troops have not crossed the border into South Sudan in pursuit of the accused attackers... READ MORE

15th March, 2017 3865

REPORT: U.N. GAVE ARMS TO SOUTH SUDAN REBELS LATER IMPLICATED IN MASSACRE


The United Nations established a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in 2011 that has grown to more than 13,000 soldiers and police officers... READ MORE

18th December, 2016 2829

FAMINE DECLARED IN PART OF SOUTH SUDAN'S UNITY STATE


This famine is man-made, said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Programme in South Sudan... READ MORE

20th February, 2017 2673

KENYA WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM UN MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN


Continued deployment of Kenyan troops in South Sudan is no longer tenable, the ministry said, saying Kenya would withdraw, immediately its forces there... READ MORE

3rd November, 2016 2152

SOUTH SUDAN SPENDS BUDGET ON FIGHTING AS PEOPLE STARVE


South Sudan spends budget on fighting as people starve... READ MORE

15th October, 2016 2033

OBAMA IN ETHIOPIA PLANS TO ADDRESS SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT


ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE

27th July, 2015 1770

SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASH KILLS DOZENS; BABY AMONG SURVIVORS


Ateny Wek Ateny, a press secretary in the South Sudan President's office, said 18 people were aboard the flight 12 South Sudanese passengers and six crew members... READ MORE

8th November, 2015 1687

FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN HIKES FEES FOR WORK PERMITS


War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to 10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine... READ MORE

9th March, 2017 1642

SOUTH SUDAN MILITARY OFFICIALS QUIT OVER 'WAR CRIMES'


Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013 when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer... READ MORE

19th February, 2017 1602

THE WOODEN BRIDGE BETWEEN DEATH AND SAFETY


Nelson Ladu Thomas has twice walked over the small wooden bridge dividing South Sudan and Uganda at an unofficial border crossing known as Busia... READ MORE

16th December, 2016 1573

'HUNDREDS' OF S SUDAN BOYS SEIZED


South Sudan strife Hundreds of boys in South Sudan have been kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, the United Nations children's agency says... READ MORE

1st March, 2015 1531

WHAT'S THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY?


Or Paris where hotels restaurants and boutiques cater to almost 50 million tourists a year in the world's most visited city?... READ MORE

26th August, 2015 1424

ETHIOPIA DECLARES TWO DAYS OF NATIONAL MOURNING


He also added that Ethiopia's security forces may cross into neighbouring South Sudan to pursue the attackers... READ MORE

20th April, 2016 1422

SOUTH SUDAN 'BACK TO WAR', SAYS VP RIEK MACHAR'S SPOKESMAN


Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops attacked their positions in the capital, Juba... READ MORE

10th July, 2016 1226

AS THE WORLD'S NEWEST COUNTRY SLIPPED INTO CHAOS, ITS LEADERS STOLE MILLIONS, REPORT SAYS


The United States is by far and away the largest contributor of foreign aid to the South Sudanese government... READ MORE

12th September, 2016 1100

FEARS AFTER KENYA DEPORTS SOUTH SUDAN REBEL SPOKESMAN


South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Machar's spokesman... READ MORE

5th November, 2016 1094

'HOPE OF PEACE IS DIMMING'


Intense fighting has resumed in South Sudan's capital, Juba, as an increasingly tense security situation threatened to send the young country back to all-out civil war... READ MORE

11th July, 2016 934

WOMEN RAPED 'AS REWARD FOR FIGHTERS'


The UN said government forces and allied militias gang-raped girls and cut civilians to pieces... READ MORE

11th March, 2016 889

QUANDARY IN SOUTH SUDAN SHOULD IT LOSE ITS HARD-WON INDEPENDENCE


Of all the quixotic rebel armies fighting for freedom in Africa, the South Sudanese actually won... READ MORE

24th January, 2017 836

DOZENS KILLED IN CARGO PLANE CRASH IN SOUTH SUDAN ALONG NILE


The flight had been headed to strategic oil fields in the Upper Nile region of the country, where there is a large South Sudanese military presence... READ MORE

4th November, 2015 796

ETHIOPIA ARMY ENTERS S SUDAN TO FIND KIDNAPPED CHILDREN


Ethiopian officials have blamed Murle tribesmen from South Sudan for a series of deadly attacks on Ethiopian villages in Gambela... READ MORE

21st April, 2016 744

SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS


In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE

26th August, 2015 710

MASS RAPE A COMMON WEAPON IN SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT


The United Nations report came as the world body's Human Rights Council prepared to take up the South Sudan conflict... READ MORE

11th March, 2016 690

GEORGE CLOONEY-BACKED REPORT: SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT PROFITS FROM CIVIL WAR


South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, but plunged into conflict soon after Kiir fired Machar as vice-president in 2013... READ MORE

13th September, 2016 618

'CHILDREN SHOULD BE INSPIRED': TWO DENGS ASSISTING DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS


Deng Adut is a lot taller and older than Deng Akech, but the two Sudanese-Australians both dressed sharply for their meeting in Canberra today... READ MORE

24th January, 2017 607

NEW SOUTH SUDAN VP APPOINTMENT 'ILLEGAL'


I want to assure you that South Sudan will be more peaceful with Taban and Kiir instead of Riek Machar, he added... READ MORE

29th July, 2016 573

89 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED IN SOUTH SUDAN AS THEY TRIED TO SIT THEIR EXAMS


At least 89 children, some as young as 13, have been kidnaped by an armed militia in South Sudan as they sat their exams, Unicef reported today... READ MORE

21st February, 2015 552

SOUTH SUDAN REBEL CHIEF RIEK MACHAR SWORN IN AS VICE-PRESIDENT


Addressing the media, he said his main priorities were to ensure a permanent ceasefire, to stabilise the economy and ensure humanitarian access throughout South Sudan... READ MORE

26th April, 2016 539

IN SOUTH SUDAN CITY OF HOPE IS NOW CITY OF FEAR


There's massive access constraints, roadblocks everywhere, widespread extortion, said Jonathan Veitch, head of Unicef's South Sudan office... READ MORE

12th March, 2016 506


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