South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has sacked his longer – serving central bank governor Korneilo Koryom Mayik and his deputy John Dor amidst the country economic collapse. This comes a week after...
It was on Tuesday, the 3rd of January, the first work day of 2017 when President Salva Kiir Mayardit inked the polemical appointment of Gen. Gregory Deng at J1. It was exactly the third day of the...
It was on Tuesday, the 3rd of January, the first work day of 2017 when President Salva Kiir Mayardit inked the polemical appointment of Gen. Gregory Deng at J1. It was exactly the third day of the...
Fake news circulating on social media alleging the assassination of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has increased tension in the country facing uncertainty after refusal of outgoing president...
Former South Sudan first vice-president Riek Machar has described as propaganda, reports that he is effectively being held under house arrest in the South African capital Pretoria. Machar’s party...
South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has called for a national dialogue to end the country’s three-year civil war. Kiir’s call comes at the start of the traditional fighting season and on the eve...
Some 3.6 million people in South Sudan face severe food shortages - the highest levels ever experienced at harvest time - and the crisis is likely to worsen when food from the current harvest runs...
The South Sudan government has agreed to accept the deployment of a UN-mandated regional force in Juba, a spokesman said, after months of hesitation over whether to allow extra foreign troops on its...
The United States proposed on Friday that the United Nations Security Council blacklist South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar, South Sudan army chief Paul Malong and South Sudan Information...
The United States circulated on Thursday to the 15-member United Nations Security Council a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions amid warnings by a...
For more than 25 years the people of South Sudan fought their powerful common enemy to a standstill. The enslaving Arab Islamist forces of north Sudan were matched fire for fire until the northerners...
If anybody had told me then, or over any succeeding ten (10) years from the CPA interim period to 15th December crisis in which he was then a Governor of Unity State and later the SPLM-IO chief...
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said there are still over 16,000 South Sudanese children involved in active combat among the various armed groups in the war-torn country despite the...
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July, sporadic gunfire rent the air in Juba, the capital city. What many assumed was a celebration of the world’s newest...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sacked the commander of a peacekeeping force in South Sudan following a damning report that accused the blue helmets of failing to protect civilians during an...
Ethnic tension is rising in South Sudan’s Bahr-el-Ghazal state where leaflets ordering those from Central Equatoria to leave or face elimination were found. It is feared that the Dinka may be...
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar says he could return to the turbulent country as early as next month, even if he has to enter the way he fled — on foot. He has begun speaking out again after a...
Presidents are supposed to wield their power with as much grace and restraint as possible but sometimes, the commander-in-chief turns into the disciplinarian-in-chief. We’ve made a list of the...
This used to be South Sudan's second largest city, a bustling center on the White Nile River of more than 120,000 people, many employed in the oil fields nearby. Today Malakal is rubble and almost...
South Sudan's former Vice-President Riek Machar says he is "broke" and struggling to pay rent for the house where his family lives in Kenya, the Nairobi-based The Star newspaper reports. His...
