Three United Nations agencies have issued an urgent warning about imminent famine in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, where conflict and food shortages have pushed 32,000 people into catastrophic hunger conditions three times more than previously estimated. The World Food Programme (WFP), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that […]

Humanitarian actors worry that conflict, disease and other crises in South Sudan are putting a heavy strain on the country’s healthcare system, one of the weakest in the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO).  Escalating violence in Upper Nile State has displaced tens of thousands of people, and is making access to medical care more […]

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has strongly denounced the deliberate bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan, as two helicopter gunships targeted the facility’s pharmacy and opened fire on the town for 30 minutes, killing at least seven people and wounding 20 patients and MSF staff. The destruction of the hospital’s pharmacy, which housed […]

At least seven people were killed and 20 others wounded this Saturday in a helicopter and drone attack on the town of Old Fangak, northern South Sudan, which also targeted a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital. RELATED: AU Mediators Urgently Address South Sudan Crisis “At 4:00 AM today, the MSF hospital in Old Fangak, South […]

African Union (AU) mediators landed in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, on Wednesday for critical talks aimed at averting a return to civil war. Their arrival comes amid heightened tensions following the house arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar last week—a development that threatens the fragile peace established by the 2018 agreement. President Salva Kiir’s […]

On Friday morning, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres raised alarms about what he described as a “dramatic and dire situation” in South Sudan. The country has seen an increase in violent clashes that are severely affecting civilians. Notably, on Wednesday night, First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest, further escalating tensions. Guterres […]

The RSF dismissed claims of defeat, framing their withdrawal from Khartoum as a tactical decision. Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, announced the “liberation” of Khartoum after expelling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from the capital. RELATED: Riek Machar Arrested as Tensions Escalate in South Sudan In a televised address from the presidential […]

South Sudan’s main opposition party has reported the arrest of its leader, Riek Machar, amid rising tensions that have prompted the United Nations to call for adherence to the 2018 peace agreement that ended the country’s civil war. The UN had previously warned that South Sudan was on the brink of renewed conflict following clashes […]

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir amid a tense rivalry with his deputy that threatens a return to civil war in the East African nation. Ugandan special forces have been sent to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, “to support the […]

At least 20 people, including two Chinese nationals, were killed in a plane crash in South Sudan on Wednesday, with only one survivor, after the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff from an oilfield in Unity State en route to the capital, Juba, multiple sources confirmed. Related:South Sudan’s Seasonal Flooding Turns into Annual Catastrophe, Displacing […]