The Latest Breaking News from South Sudan

Software with database of 380,000 pictures aims to aid quick and accurate identification and ensure correct use of antivenoms

South Sudan said Friday that long-awaited elections would be postponed for a further two years, once again extending a transitional period agreed in a peace deal.

Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands of people there were already forced from their homes by huge floods a few years ago and were yet…

The world’s youngest nation of South Sudan, which emerged after decades of civil war, is home to the world’s biggest conservation project twice the size of Portugal. The conflicts have had an unintended consequence: they delayed development, meaning few roads were built, keeping poachers out and allowing wildlife to flourish.…

Elections are pivotal milestones in post-conflict countries – and nowhere is voter anticipation felt more keenly than in South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation.

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Head of UN mission calls for more peacekeepers as security council told that the nation is far from prepared for its first election as an independent country

To mark World Humanitarian Day, the UN released its annual statistics for the number of humanitarian workers killed on the job. 2023 has broken all records, with 280 workers having lost their lives worldwide. Most of them – 163 – were killed in Gaza, but South Sudan and Sudan also…

Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth

South Sudan’s parliament says controversial security legislation allowing the arrest of people without warrants has become law even though the president has not signed it

The U.N. envoy for South Sudan says the troubled African country is not ready to hold its first post-independence elections in December and political players are discussing whether voting should be held this year