November 23, 2015 (RUMBEK) – At least 25 civilians were massacred in cold blood in South Sudan’s Jonglei state county of Akobo county on Sunday, an area lawmaker said. The map of Jonglei state ...

A probe will take place at the appropriate time to find the truth of the slaughter and many other hidden atrocities against the Anyuak people in Akobo County, Southern Sudan. Akobo massacre will ...

The killings, near the town of Akobo, were the latest in a string of ethnic clashes in Sudan's oil-producing south, many of them attacks and counter attacks provoked by cattle rustling.

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, a boy comes out of the water after going for a swim in the Nile in Akobo town, one of the last rebel-held strongholds in South Sudan. Child abductions ...

AKOBO, Sudan — Three-day-old Odong Obong lay in the hospital bed, his pencil-thin arms almost motionless and his shriveled, gaunt face resembling that of an elderly man. Emaciated babies and ...

AKOBO, Sudan (AP) — Three-day-old Odong Obong lay in the hospital bed, his pencil-thin arms almost motionless and his shriveled, gaunt face resembling that of an elderly man. Emaciated babies ...

JUBA, (April 9, 2025) – At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek ... The children from a remote part of Akobo County in the country's east, along with ...

"By 4 p.m. yesterday, 177 dead bodies had already been found by our team," the commissioner of Akobo county ... and counter-attacks in southern Sudan has plagued the oil-rich region since ...

"The U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) will try to extract unarmed U.N. personnel from Akobo while reinforcing the base in Akobo with additional 60 troops from Malakal tomorrow," Haq added.

Thanks to a two-day peacebuilding workshop hosted by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), through its Civil Affairs Division in Akobo, Jonglei state, youth leaders across this ...