South Sudan President Salva Kiir has urged restraint after an anti-Sudanese demonstration in the capital Juba degenerated into looting.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday it was suspending operations in two South Sudan counties after staff came under attack from an armed group.

South Sudan plans to resume pumping crude oil it hopes to export after fighting in neighbouring Sudan ruptured a key pipeline earlier this year, according to documents seen by AFP Tuesday.

South Sudan is facing a "completely overwhelming" influx of refugees from war-torn Sudan as well as a rapidly growing cholera epidemic, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Monday. The medical charity said up to 5,000 people were crossing the border every day. The United Nations recently put the figure even higher at 7,000 to 10,000 a…

The United Nations on Wednesday denounced "concerning" infringement of rights in conflict-weary South Sudan, citing arbitrary arrests and detention of hundreds, including women and children.

The UN World Food Programme made an urgent appeal Friday for donors to provide early funding for South Sudan, where millions are on the brink of starvation. WFP said its stores of food supplies in South Sudan were empty and that it needed $404 million to prepare assistance for 2025 amid "spiralling operational costs and…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially certified Egypt as malaria-free the achievement marks the culmination of a century-long effort to eradicate a disease that has plagued the nation since ancient times. “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history and not its future,”…

The United States, the United Kingdom and Norway expressed "deep concern" on Saturday at the announcement of a two-year delay in elections in South Sudan, terming the extension of a transitional government a "failure." "This announcement demonstrates the persistent and collective failure of South Sudan’s leaders to create the conditions necessary to hold credible and…

South Sudan said Friday that long-awaited elections would be postponed for a further two years, once again extending a transitional period agreed in a peace deal. Citizens have waited to elect their leaders since the country achieved its hard-won independence from Sudan in 2011, with the world's newest nation still dogged by violence, poverty and…

More than seven million people in fragile South Sudan are at risk of acute food insecurity in the coming months, including tens of thousands at a "catastrophic" level of famine, the United Nations warned Tuesday. "An estimated 7.1 million people will likely be experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between April and July 2024,"…

Fifteen people, including a regional commissioner, died when their convoy was ambushed in South Sudan's eastern Pibor region near the Ethiopian frontier, a senior official said Wednesday. Suspected armed youths belonging to the Anyuak ethnic group from Pochalla county ambushed the convoy on Tuesday morning, said Abraham Kelang, information minister of the Greater Pibor Administrative…

Nineteen people, one of them a humanitarian worker, were killed in ethnic clashes over the weekend in the Abyei region straddling the border between Sudan and South Sudan and claimed by both, local authorities said