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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 » Security: South Sudan, 15 years on: Still fighting for peace
A stalled peace process, deepening humanitarian needs and economic challenges test the world’s youngest nation.
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » Security: South Sudan's economic stability very likely reliant on Chinese and Emirati activity but weakened by Sudan conflict
Political instability has worsened since the South Sudanese government announced in September 2024 that it was postponing the country’s first national elections until December 2026. China, Sudan, the ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » Security: South Sudan stability report, January-March 2025
16–19 January Social Nationwide riots were sparked by the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF’s) killing of South Sudanese civilians in Sudan’s Wad Madani city. Riots and looting affected Aweil, Bor, Juba, ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » Security: South Sudan at 15: how the political elite have found a way to profit from peace as well as war
South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa’s longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did not end ...
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » Security: 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 » Security: 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 » Security: In maps and charts: South Sudan’s 15 years of independence
AJLabs breaks down the 15 years of liberation from Khartoum and the impact on 12 million people.
News South Sudan » Upper Nile » Security: Germany temporarily shuts embassy in South Sudan amid fears of civil war
BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan's capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the East African country to the verge of civil war, ...