South Sudan News » Upper Nile News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: South Sudan: IRC launches emergency response in Upper Nile and Unity state following escalation of conflict and deepening nutrition crisis
Juba, South Sudan, August 7, 2025 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has launched an emergency response in Unity and Upper Nile states in South Sudan to address growing humanitarian needs ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: UNHCR prepares for refugee influx into South Sudan's Upper Nile state
MABAN COUNTY, South Sudan, November 8 (UNHCR) - Aneim has just reached South Sudan's newest refugee camp, Gendrassa, after fleeing a devastating mid-October air attack on his village across the border ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: Fighting in South Sudan's Upper Nile drags into third day
JUBA (Reuters) - Opposing groups of government soldiers in South Sudan's Upper Nile state fought for a third day on Thursday, a ruling party official said, adding that the defense minister will travel ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: Another civil war looms in South Sudan
Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: What a wrecked ferry reveals about war in South Sudan
Nobody is quite sure how the ferry sank. Ayuen Samuel, who manages the old shipyard in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, thinks it ran aground on this treacherous stretch of the White Nile after snapping ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: Thousands displaced by escalating conflict in South Sudan's Greater Upper Nile Region
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the escalating armed conflict in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state which has displaced at least 20,000 people since August, some of them forced to flee for ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: South Sudan president sacks Upper Nile governor after clashes with ethnic militia
NAIROBI, March 20 (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » History: UN calls for calm as violence flares in South Sudan
The United Nations has called for calm as it reported deadly clashes in South Sudan have killed civilians and wounded a peacekeeper. Fighting broke out between the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces ...