Zoonotic Diseases: A growing threat to the people of South Sudan

 Diseases like anthrax, brucellosis, rabies, Rift Valley fever, and even Ebola have zoonotic origins and have affected lives across Africa, including here in our own communities. While many factors contribute to this rising danger, a significant and often …

As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens

Violence between armed groups in Upper Nile state and other flashpoints has crippled essential services, triggered food insecurity and worsened disease outbreaks, including cholera – forcing some to be displaced repeatedly. Roughly 65,000 have been …

UN urges South Sudan to avert killings in restive Warrap State

JUBA, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday called on South Sudan to take steps to avert persistent intercommunal clashes in Tonj East County of Warrap State that have resulted in the killing of 280 people since March. The …

Civilian casualties mount in South Sudan amid fighting between army and local militias

MTN South Sudan launches 21 Days of Y’ello Care Campaign

Government officials, MTN Staff and the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp settlement posed for photo after launch of campaign in Juba on Monday (Photo by courtesy) JUBA — MTN South Sudan on Monday launched its annual 21 Days of Y’ello Care campaign, …

South Sudan warns against rampant illegal logging

Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Josephine Napwon Cosmos JUBA — The South Sudan government on Monday warned that stern action would be taken against those illegally cutting forest trees in Central Equatoria State. This followed a meeting over the …

Civilian casualties mount in South Sudan as the army clashes with local militias

AKOBO, South Sudan (AP) — Wiyuach Makuach sat on her bed in a dimly lit ward of a hospital near South Sudan ’s border with Ethiopia and rested her remaining arm in her lap as she recalled the airstrike that took her other arm and nearly killed her. “ …

More than four million refugees have fled Sudan, UN says

More than four million refugees have fled Sudan since the beginning of its civil war in 2023, UN refugee agency officials say.  The world's most "damaging displacement crisis" is now in its third year, with many survivors facing lack of …

More than 4 million refugees have fled Sudan civil war: UN

Sudanese refugees who fled the war in their country are seen in the Egyptian capital Cairo [Mohamed Elshahed/Anadolu via Getty] The number of people who have fled Sudan since the beginning of its civil war in 2023 has surpassed four million, U.N. …

More than four million people have fled Sudan amid war, UN says

More than four million people have fled Sudan since the start of its civil war in 2023, officials with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) say. “Now in its third year, the four million people is a devastating milestone …