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South Sudan dismisses UN report on corruption
The UN's Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned last week that the plunder risks derailing an already fragile peace process in the world's newest...
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South Sudanese refugees homeless again after Sudan floods
Over 288,000 residents and refugees have been affected in Sudan where heavy rains and flash floods have hit 13 of the 18 states, according to the United Nations.
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Tight security, shops shut as South Sudan warns against protests
The world's newest nation has suffered from chronic instability since independence in 2011, with deepening discontent prompting a coalition of civil society groups to urge South Sudan's leadership to step down, saying they have "had enough".
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Tight security, shops shut as South Sudan warns against protests
The government has taken a hard line against the People's Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) and its calls for a peaceful public uprising, arresting at least eight activists and detaining three journalists this month in connection with the demonstrations, according to rights groups.
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IMF extends $334m in aid to South Sudan: central bank
Central Bank Governor Dier Tong Ngor said the IMF loan would 'substantially boost' foreign reserves and allow room to try and recover in the midst of the pandemic.
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Deadly fighting erupts between rival factions of S.Sudan VP Machar's party
The clashes erupted after Machar's rivals declared this week they had deposed him as the head of the party and its military forces.
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South Sudan's VP Machar deposed by party: rival leaders
Riek Machar, a pivotal figure in South Sudan's bloody road to independence and subsequent civil war, was deposed following a three-day gathering of senior SPLM/A-IO leaders in the country's far north, the party's military wing said.
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Riek Machar: Wily warlord with pivotal role in South Sudan's bloody history
Born in 1953 in the oil-producing state of Unity, Machar was the son of a chief and comes from the Nuer, a cattle-keeping people who are the second-biggest ethnic group in South Sudan after the Dinka.
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Salva Kiir: The man who led South Sudan to independence then war
President Salva Kiir's political rivalry with vice president Riek Machar triggered a civil war in late 2013 that was characterised by ethnic atrocities, rape, torture and the deaths of almost 400,000 people.
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'Just a dream': Hope for South Sudan dashed after horror decade
Hunger has reached levels not seen since independence. Some 60% of the population -- around seven million people -- are enduring severe food shortages, according to the UN's World Food Programme.
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From hope to despair: South Sudan marks 10 troubled years
The optimism that ushered in its hard-fought independence from Sudan evaporated as the country's new leaders went to war in 2013.
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South Sudan president announces new parliament
A decree by President Salva Kiir was then read out on the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) on Monday, including the names of the national assembly legislators.
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As peace deal drifts, South Sudan risks fresh crisis
The peace process has drifted as South Sudan reels from economic crisis, brutal ethnic violence, an armed insurgency, and its worst hunger crisis since declaring independence from Sudan in 2011.
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South Sudan hotels kick out politicians over $50mln in unpaid bills
Some 300 politicians from different opposition groups, the ruling party and the military, have been staying in more than 18 hotels in Juba for several years.
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60% of South Sudan's population facing acute hunger, says UN
In a new joint report, UN agencies on Friday said that 1.4 million children face acute malnutrition in the conflict-ravaged eastern African nation.
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Ramphosa calls for lifting of economic sanctions on Zimbabwe, South Sudan
President Cyril Ramaphosa in his address to the UN general assembly said that developed countries needed to help underdeveloped nations fight the coronavirus.
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Rebel commander welcomes Sudan peace deal
Conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile erupted in 2011, in the wake of South Sudan's independence, resuming two decades of war.
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South Sudan: An unexplored Eden of biodiversity
South Sudan boasts Africa's biggest wetland, the Sudd, and its largest intact savanna, a stretch of untouched wilderness east of the White Nile that reaches all the way to Ethiopia.
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10 South Sudan ministers test positive for COVID-19
Minister of Information Michael Makuei told the BBC that the ministers came into contact with a former member of the high-level task force on the coronavirus.
