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Over 3000 Candidates sit for Juba Joint mock sixth edition
Students during their Juba Joined mock examination (photo: Chol Johnson) By: Chol D. Johnson At least 3,895 candidates, both primary and secondary school sat for the sixth edition of the Juba Joint Mock Examination. The Joined Mock Examination...

South Sudan, Djibouti seal deal to build ports in eight towns
The initiative is anchored in the White Nile Corridor development plan, which involves two multimodal logistics routes serving South Sudan By Emmanuel Mandella South Sudan has struck a landmark deal with Djibouti to construct river and dry ports...

Rwanda takes first US deportees, but terms of deal remain secret
1 Sep 2025 PREVIEW Rwanda has become the latest African state to accept foreign deportees from United States after confirming that it had received seven people expelled by Washington. Although it is unclear what, if any, incentives are on offer to...

Sudan - A New Beginning: Rebuilding Through Resilience And Kindness
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) With the support of the Government of Japan, UN Women Sudan-in partnership with the Sudanese Coalition for Education for All (SCEFA)-distributed 2,500 dignity kits and 3,275 kitchen utensil sets to displaced...

Deadly Cholera Outbreaks in Sudan and South Sudan Expose Fragile Health Systems and Threaten Millions of Children
August 22, 2025 Hour: 6:47 pm The cholera crisis sweeping across Sudan and South Sudan has reached alarming proportions, with over 189,000 cases and thousands of deaths reported across both countries. Humanitarian organizations warn that the...

What do you think about IEC?
The Ministry of General Education and Instruction and Windle Trust International have done a good job. They have come with Intensive English Course (IEC) for Refugee teachers as well as the host community with low English proficiency. The project...

South Sudan faces looming humanitarian crisis from conflict and climate change
Author: Koang Pal Chang | Published: 22 minutes ago Minister Albino Atak addressing the media in the Office of the President after a meeting on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - Courtesy of OPPU JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) — The Minister of...

Juba residents file intent to sue government for neglect
Residents of South Sudan’s capital threatened to sue the government on Wednesday, accusing it of failing to provide basic services in their neighborhoods for many years. A group of residents from the Hai Referendum, Mia Saba, and Gudele areas of...
Opinion| How nepotism and corruption doomed South Sudan
South Sudan today stands as one of the starkest examples of state failure in the modern world. After more than a decade of Salva Kiir’s rule, the country has reached a critical juncture where the basic elements of governance—accountability,...

Juba residents threaten lawsuit against government over poor service delivery
A pile of garbage pictured around a residential area in the capital, Juba. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – The residents of Gudele, Hai-Referendum, and Mia-Saba neighbourhoods in South Sudan’s capital Juba have issued a legal notice announcing their...

South Sudan MPs in dark over reported Gazans resettlement talk
South Sudanese lawmakers demanded clarity and transparency from the Foreign Affairs Ministry over reports it is in talks to host Palestinians from Gaza, with some legislators calling the alleged plan a violation of the country’s foreign policy....

There was no 'Hamas camera' - just complicit media enabling Israel's genocide
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told a meeting of the House of Common foreign affairs committee last November that he could not verify his claim of widespread looting in Gaza, as there were “no journalists” in the territory. Lammy meant no...

Japan-South Sudan Foreign Ministers' Meeting
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo On August 21, commencing at 1:30 p.m. for approximately 20 minutes, Mr. IWAYA Takeshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs, held a meeting with H.E. Amb. Monday Semaya Kenneth Kumba, Minister of Foreign...

Reflections on Vulgarity and Reckless Driving on the Public Roads in Juba City, South Sudan
By Madit Them Arop, Juba, South Sudan Introduction Wednesday, 20 August 2025 (PW) — This reflective approach to bad driving on public roads in Juba City tries to highlight on repudiation to follow traffic rules and regulations in the capital where...

Israel is in talks to send Gazans to South Sudan, officials say
Juba international airport, in South Sudan, Oct. 30, 2024. Unable so far to find countries willing to accept large numbers of Gazan refugees from the nearly two-year Israeli campaign against Hamas, Israel has held talks with the impoverished,...

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Child Hunger and Violence in Al-Fasher, Sudan
(FILE). Civilians who have fled the fighting in Sudan walk toward the refugee transit center in the city of Renk, in the Upper Nile state of South Sudan. Photo. EFE. August 28, 2025 Hour: 1:12 am The city of Al-Fasher, capital of North Darfur...

UPDF Battle Group in South Sudan conducts rigorous physical exercise
Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) troops deployed in South Sudan have undertaken a physical training exercise, which included a 20-kilometre route march and mountain climbing, the Directorate of Defence Public Information at the Uganda’s...

South Sudan’s youth swept up in gang culture and street violence amid wider conflict
In June, a video of a gang-rape started circulating online in South Sudan. Filmed and posted on social media by the perpetrators, it showed a gang of visibly intoxicated young men taking turns to sexually assault a 16-year-old girl in a murky room...

Opinion| The unity of opposition is the only hope for South Sudan!
The only hope for South Sudan to escape this kleptocracy regime, which has inflicted unimaginable suffering on its people, lies in the opposition groups uniting. The recent joint operations by the National Salvation Front (NAS) and SPLA-IO against...

The façades of Israel’s ‘humanitarian’ paradigms in South Sudan and Gaza
While the entire international community is futilely discussing humanitarian aid in Gaza and allowing Israel to continue with its macabre spectacle, the settler colonial enterprise is once again embarking on flaunting its hypocritical so-called...