The Latest Breaking News from South Sudan

Seven strangers, one destination they never knew.

Announcement that people from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen were deported comes after eight others were sent to South Sudan this month

South Sudanese authorities say that eight men deported from the United States are now in government custody in the African country

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the deportation of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to South Sudan

After legal battle, US sends eight detainees to country it has advised citizens not to visit due to ‘crime, conflict’.

Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenge played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan

Justice department says the men – including nationals from Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar – will be flown to South Sudan

The men are immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam. One man is of South Sudanese origin.

A federal judge in Washington is briefly blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after the Supreme Court permitted it to go forward