Major General Lul Ruai Koang, spokesperson for the South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF), urges calm and calls on officers to return to duty amid rising tensions with SPLM-IO. The South Sudan...

President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar The United States ordered the immediate departure of non-emergency personnel from the capital of South Sudan, citing an increase in crime, kidnapping...

SSPDF spokesperson briefs reporters on the security situation in Juba on Friday, November 22, 2024 (Radio Tamazuj) The heavy gunfire, which erupted in Juba on Thursday night in an attempt...

One of the bodyguards assigned to protect one of the homes of Vice President James Wani Igga who is in charge of for Economic Cluster on Friday morning gunned down...

Angelina Teny, wife of South Sudan Vice President Dr Reik Machar South Sudan’s president has dismissed the defense minister who is the wife of his longtime political rival, Riek Machar....

Pope Francis speaks at an audience with the Democratic Republic of Congo's authorities, diplomats, and representatives of civil society on Jan. 31, 2023. At right is President Felix Tshisekedi of...

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is in South Sudan’s capital Juba for a four-day tour of the world’s youngest...

Businesses with connections to the ruling class—including President Salva Kiir’s family, the then-governor of the central bank Kornelio Koriom, and multiple military officials—were among those that received contracts collectively worth...

Ebola Screening along the Ugandan-DRC border 2019. JUBA —Health officials in Nimule, the border town between South Sudan and Uganda are holding one person with suspected Ebola Virus symptoms. The...

An isolation ward in Uganda during a 2000 Ebola outbreak. Despite mounting evidence that infectious diseases can be spread via the handling or eating of bushmeat, local people’s attitudes towards...