A plan to drain the Sudd Wetland has caused problems in South Sudan’s government and highlighted geopolitical fault lines with Egypt
State television broadcast patriotic songs as it announced the coup attempt and urged “the people to confront it”.
South Sudan has nearly run out of foreign currency – and this is just the tip of a much bigger economic crisis.
The international organisation has been on the receiving end of bitter criticism since South Sudan’s first case of Covid-19 was confirmed to be a UN staffer
Examples from Rwanda and Sierra Leone can be incorporated into transitional justice frameworks
The survivors of the brutal Terrain attack are demanding just compensation – but say the government is ignoring their claims
South Sudan’s five-year-long civil war has left possibly tens of thousands of people without limbs — a toll that may never be accurately established
Ethiopia’s new prime minister may have to do more to convince thousands of refugees belonging to the Anuak ethnic group to return to their homelands
A South African citizen was sentenced to death in a courtroom in Juba. But what exactly was William Endley doing in South Sudan to begin with?
For a regional connectivity plan to work, there must be stability in east Africa, writes Peter Biar Ajak.
A well-connected regional political consultant said Machar was being kept ‘basically under house arrest’ near Pretoria with his movements restricted.
Former president Thabo Mbeki was the African Union’s chief mediator in the conflict in Sudan that led to the creation of South Sudan in 2011.
Where you see a proliferation of Toyota Land Cruisers in a developing nation, you know there’s trouble.
When Osman Abdelmoniem first arrived in Juba in 2005, there was one tarred road and a tent in a camp cost him $350 a night.
In the International Bank Building overlooking Juba’s remarkably active airport, we meet with a journalist named Clement Lochio Lomornana.
Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom are in South Sudan this week. Their first stop: Juba, a capital coming into its own.
China, the largest purchaser of oil from South Sudan, has agreed to loan the fledgling country $8-billion.
US President Barack Obama has called for negotiations between the leaders of the two countries to settle their conflict and end fighting.
A contingent of South African soldiers is providing security for South Sudan’s independence day celebrations in Juba this weekend.
The African Union will welcome the birth of an independent South Sudan, its chief said on Wednesday.
