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South Sudan Marks Another Year of Freedom Without Peace

South Sudan on Sunday marked its sixth independence anniversary in muted fashion, with no official celebration as the...

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S.Sudan To Lift Ban On Foreign Journalists

South Sudan's media authority will lift a ban on around 20 foreign journalists who had been refused access to the...

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Britain Sending 400 Troops To Join UN’s S.Sudan Force

About 400 British soldiers will join the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan in the next weeks in one of Britain's...

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S.Sudan Hosting Rebels To ‘extend War’ In Sudan

Sudan's powerful security agency on Monday accused breakaway South Sudan of staging talks with rebels fighting...

International

South Sudan Accused of Abducting Rivals In Nairobi

Human Rights Watch says it is concerned about two South Sudanese men, an activist and a rebel official, who disappeared...

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S. Sudan Ex-Rebels Hold Dozen UN Staff Hostage In DR Congo

South Sudanese former rebels are holding about a dozen UN staff hostage in a refugee camp in eastern Democratic...

International

Cinema Continues In South Sudan Depsite War

The civil war in South Sudan has made life hard for almost everyone - but it hasn't stopped the country's cinephiles...

International

South Sudan Aid Workers’ Families Await Release of Bodies

Families of aid workers killed in an ambush in South Sudan on Saturday have been at the morgue in the capital, Juba,...

Headlines

Six Aid Workers Killed In South Sudan Ambush

Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the UN said Sunday, the latest such attack in the country...

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All Passengers Survive ‘miraculous’ Landing

A commercial plane on Monday made a crash landing in poor weather at an airport in South Sudan, causing several...

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Lucky Escape For S.Sudan Plane Crash Survivors

All passengers and crew survived a plane crash in South Sudan on Monday in which the jet hit a fire truck on the runway...

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Plane Crash-Lands In S. Sudan With 45 Onboard

A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan's north-western city of Wau on Monday, leaving at least...

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Japan Troops To Withdraw From South Sudan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in...

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Nov. 12 World News Summary At 0100 GMT

LOS ANGELES — A tow truck collided with a China Southern Airlines flight just before takeoff late Thursday night,...

Opinion

Peace Eludes The Worlds Newest Nation

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July, sporadic gunfire rent the air in Juba,...

International

11 Football Fans Killed, 16 Injured In South Sudan Shooting

At least 11 people are dead and 16 others have been injured after an attack on football fans in South Sudan, local...

Politics

Football Fans Killed In South Sudan Shooting

At least 11 people are dead and 16 others have been injured after an attack on football fans in South Sudan, local...

International

UN Warns of Increasing Violence As Tensions Rise In S. Sudan

The UN warned Wednesday of increasing violence in parts of South Sudan, as the government was forced to publicly...

International

Ethiopia Denies South Sudan Opposition Leader

South Sudanese ousted vice president, Dr Riek Machar, is increasingly becoming a pariah in the region with Ethiopia now...