Press Releases

South African Government

Remarks by Hon. Ronald O Lamola at the Parliamentary Debate on the escalating Middle East Crisis and the implications for South Africa Mr President, Honourable Speaker, Honourable Members, Yesterday, we received the sad news of the passing of one...

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(MENAFN) An aircraft carrying food supplies for the humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse crashed in Unity State, South Sudan, on Tuesday, Aviation Safety Network (ASN) reported.

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(MENAFN) A medical organization has alleged that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) forced thousands of civilians from their homes and caused severe damage to healthcare infrastructure in Blue Nile State, located in the country’s southeast.

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(MENAFN) South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and Uganda’s Chief of Defense Forces, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, met Saturday in the capital, Juba, for high-level talks aimed at reinforcing regional peace and military cooperation, amid escalating tensions...

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Southern Africa Development Community South Africa will host the SADC Council of Ministers in Pretoria, South Africa, from 12 to 13 March 2026. During this Session, in our capacity as Interim Chair of the Council of Ministers will continue to...

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(MENAFN) South Sudan has dismissed claims that it is negotiating with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza in the East African nation.

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(MENAFN) Sudan has been named at the top of the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist for worldwide humanitarian crises for the third consecutive year, the aid organization announced on Tuesday.

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(MENAFN) South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Monday removed three ministers and the governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal state in his latest Cabinet reshuffle, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Sudan’s Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday expressed support for US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate the ongoing dispute over the Grand Ethiopian...

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(MENAFN) Egypt and Sudan have signaled approval of an initiative proposed by US President Donald Trump to help mediate the longstanding disagreement over Nile River water allocation linked to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. On Saturday,...

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(MENAFN) The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) confirmed Thursday it has evacuated its logistics installation in Kadugli, Sudan's South Kordofan state, following a fatal assault on its personnel.

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(MENAFN) Multiple fatalities and injuries resulted from a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) assault in South Kordofan, southern Sudan, on Wednesday, according to local media outlets.

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(MENAFN) Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack on a United Nations logistics base in South Kordofan, Sudan, officials confirmed on Sunday.

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(MENAFN) The United States on Sunday expressed its condemnation of a drone strike targeting a UN base in Sudan that resulted in the deaths of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and left eight others injured, doing so "in the strongest terms." The...

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(MENAFN) Türkiye strongly condemned a drone attack on a United Nations base in Sudan on Monday, which claimed the lives of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and left eight others injured. “We wish Allah’s mercy upon the Bangladeshi peacekeepers who...

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(MENAFN) Türkiye strongly condemned a drone attack on a United Nations base in Sudan on Monday that claimed the lives of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and left eight others injured.

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(MENAFN) The United States on Sunday strongly denounced a drone strike targeting a UN base in Sudan that resulted in the deaths of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and left eight others wounded, calling the incident "in the strongest terms." The...

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(MENAFN) Washington has issued its sharpest condemnation yet following a deadly drone assault on a United Nations facility in Sudan that left six Bangladeshi peacekeepers dead and eight wounded.

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(MENAFN) A devastating aerial assault claimed the lives of seven tribal chieftains and numerous Rapid Support Forces (RSF) combatants Tuesday near Sudan's Heglig oil installation in West Kordofan, according to regional sources.

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(MENAFN) A Sudanese IL-76 military transport aircraft went down on Tuesday to the west of Port Sudan, killing its entire crew, according to general local reports.