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Sudanese rally against a military coup which occurred nearly three months ago, south of the capital Khartoum, on 17 January 2022. Thousands rallied again in Sudan to oppose a military coup which occurred nearly three months ago but security forces quickly fired tear gas towards them. Picture: AFP

Peace talks in south sudan

World Food Programme warns South Sudan to face its worst hunger crisis yet

By AFP

More than 70% of South Sudan's population will face extreme hunger this year as conflict and climate-related disasters deepen food scarcity, the WFP warned.

  • Peacekeeper troops from Ethiopia deployed by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan patrol outside the premises of the UN Protection of Civilians site in Juba, South Sudan, on 4 October 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Money, guns and brides fuel South Sudan's cattle wars

    Observers blame a deadly cocktail of factors for the rising body count: a breakdown of law and order in the war-torn nation, an influx of guns and inflation in the bride price - paid in cattle.

    1102 days ago
  • FILE: President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, makes an address on 9 July 2017. Picture: AFP.

    South Sudan denies kidnapping, executing prominent critics

    South Sudan rejects UN allegations its security services kidnapped two prominent government critics exiled in Kenya in 2017.

    1112 days ago
  • FILE: President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, makes an address on 9 July 2017. Picture: AFP.

    In South Sudan, illness is as deadly as war

    After being given medication he lies fast asleep, naked and feverish, attached to a drip, his anxious mother sitting on the bed next to him.

    1125 days ago
  • FILE: President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, makes an address on 9 July 2017. Picture: AFP.

    President Kiir apologises to South Sudan for years of civil war suffering

    He was speaking at a peace ceremony in the capital Juba attended by the returned rebel leader Riek Machar who’s been restored a vice president.

    1294 days ago
  • FILE: South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar. Picture: AFP

    South Sudan rebel leader Machar: We are for peace

    The new deal aims to end a civil war that erupted in the world's youngest country in December 2013 and uprooted about four million people - roughly a third of the population.

    1294 days ago
  • FILE: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. Picture: United Nations Photo

    South Sudan govt agrees to peace deal with hope to end war

    South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011, but civil war broke out two years later between the government led by Kiir and a rebel movement led by Machar.

    1381 days ago
  • FILE: Refugee children from South Sudan walk in Bidibidi resettlement camp. Picture: AFP

    South Sudan, facing humanitarian crisis, waives some fees for aid groups

    South Sudan has been criticised in the past for imposing massive charges on aid groups and their workers to register them to operate in the country.

    1570 days ago
  • Residents from South Sudan pictured at the protection of civilians (PoC) site adjacent to the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base. Picture: United Nations.

    UN moves to protect South Sudan civilians after years of criticism

    South Sudan was the world’s youngest country when it became independent from neighbouring Sudan in 2011 following decades of conflict.

    1724 days ago
  • South Sudanese flags flutter in Juba. Picture: AFP

    Fighting between South Sudan rival rebel groups wounds two

    South Sudan’s war has largely been fought between the forces of Kiir, a Dinka, and the SPLA-IO of former vice president Machar, a Nuer.

    1752 days ago
  • Former Vice President of South Sudan Riek Machar. Picture: Vumani mkhize/EWN.

    South Sudan rebel Machar declines to renounce violence – mediator

    Rather than speaking with one voice, regional leaders have largely worked on South Sudan on a bilateral basis.

    1762 days ago
  • South Sudanese flags flutter in Juba. Picture: AFP

    South Sudan deports three US citizens who served in military

    Social media accounts and a magazine interview in the names of two of the men suggested they had recently been fighting pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.

    1784 days ago
  • FILE: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir stands for South Sudan's national anthem before signing a peace agreement in the capital Juba, on 26 August, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Africa leaders push South Sudan sides to revive peace, delay vote

    The forum would be set up urgently, leaders from the East African bloc IGAD said, without specifying when or what form it would take.

    1799 days ago
  • FILE: A Japanese engineer at work at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, in Juba. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    Last Japanese troops leave UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan

    Oil-rich South Sudan has been ravaged by civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.

    1818 days ago
  • FILE: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir stands for South Sudan's national anthem before signing a peace agreement in the capital Juba, on 26 August, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    South Sudan president replaces army chief

    President Salva Kiir has appointed General James Ajongo as the new army chief, said Minister of Defence Kuol Manyang Juuk.

    1834 days ago
  • FILE: Refugee children from South Sudan walk in Bidibidi resettlement camp in the Northern District of Yumbe on 14 April, 2017. Picture: AFP.

    War forces 2 million South Sudanese children to flee homes

    The civil war in the oil-producing country began two years after it won independence from neighbouring Sudan.

    1836 days ago
  • FILE: Young girls carry luggage in a United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) IDP camp on June 20, 2014 in Juba. 20 June marks the World refugee day, according to statistics over 1.3 million people have been displaced from their homes due to the current conflict. Picture: AFP.

    Crisis-hit South Sudan hikes fees to register aid agencies

    The new order will require an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) seeking to work in South Sudan to pay $3,500, up from $600.

    1840 days ago
  • Young girls carry luggage in a United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) IDP camp on in Juba. Picture: AFP.

    South Sudan Africa’s 'worst refugees’ crisis' country

    According to the UN, more than three years of civil war in South Sudan has forced 1.5 million people to flee into neighboring countries.

    1920 days ago
  • FILE: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir stands for South Sudan's national anthem before signing a peace agreement in the capital Juba, on 26 August, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    South Sudan president says soldiers who rape should be shot

    South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in 2013 when Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, an ethnic Nuer.

    1926 days ago
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