Reflections on South Sudan 1955 -2024

BY JOSEPH MADAK BOTH, PhD. 2024 – 2025: The extension for another two years of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan 2018 -R-ACRSS, signifies an important political development that has occurred after six years of a …

SOUTH SUDAN PARLIAMENT GOES ON A FOUR MONTHS WITHOUT PAY AS GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE IS NO MONEY

SOUTH SUDAN PARLIAMENT GOES ON A FOUR MONTHS WITHOUT PAY AS GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE IS NO MONEY. Foreign News: South Sudan’s Unpaid Parliamentary Break In a concerning development, South Sudan’s parliament has been forced to take an unpaid 4-month break due …

South Sudan in Focus: Residents of Jonglei state praise security forces for peaceful Christmas festivities

Residents of Jonglei state’s capital Bor celebrated Christmas without security incidents this year; cases of the deadly cholera disease continue to spread across South Sudan; small holder farmers go digital; journalists fight misinformation in Africa; plus …

Civilians to suffer even more in Sudan next year as civil war rages on

After 20 months of civil war, Sudan is suffering the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Things are going to get much worse for civilians, experts say. Sudan’s civil war has unleashed violence, death, hunger and disease on a scarcely imaginable scale: tens …

In Christmas wishes, faithful ask for a peaceful South Sudan in 2025

Author: Charles Wote | Published: 4 hours ago Christmas prayers at St. Theresa Cathedral in Kator, Juba. December 25, 2024. (Photo: Lou Nelson/Eye Radio). Some faithful in Juba have expressed optimism for peace in the new year 2025 while urging the …

Sudan’s war came to represent the worst of humanity

In Sudan, 20 months of armed conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army (SAF) have killed at least 20,000 people and left some 25 million – half of the country’s population – suffering from severe hunger and in …

Five players who can decide Rwanda vs South Sudan CHAN Qualifier

South Sudan’s Wau diocese charges rebel militia with torturing 17 of its clergy

The Episcopal Church of South Sudan’s (ECSS) Diocese of Wau has demanded justice for 17 members of its clergy allegedly tortured by soldiers of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), Radio Tamazuj reports. Led by Vice President …

AU and UN Missions Urge South Sudan to Prioritize Peace Tasks Ahead of 2026 Elections

The African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) missions in South Sudan have called on the parties in the country’s transitional unity government to prioritize the completion of pending peace tasks in the 2018 revitalized peace agreement in 2025, in …

Thousands flee Sudan conflict, overwhelming border areas in South Sudan