South Sudan hosts some 330,000 refugees and asylum-seekers (mainly from Sudan) and has 2 million internally displaced persons due to conflict, insecurity and the impact of climate change. In addition, ...

South Sudan has endured insecurity since its independence in 2011. Now, the spillover effects of the war in Sudan, political instability and the climate crisis land South Sudan in fifth place on the ...

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, according to the peace deal ending Africa's longest-running civil war. Independence, however, has not brought conflict and its consequences to an ...

Manute Bol – a 7-foot-7 center who played 13 seasons in the NBA from 1985-97 – is the country's most famous basketball player. He died in 2010. South Sudan qualified for the 2024 Summer ...

South Sudanese authorities have suspended access to social media platforms for a minimum of 30 days after videos depicting the alleged killings of South Sudanese nationals in Sudan’s El Gezira state ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has called for calm and urged citizens not to take the law into their own hands, following a spate of attacks on businesses and homes owned by people from ...

is among more than 5,000 unaccompanied South Sudanese refugee children who have arrived in Uganda The situation in South Sudan and neighbouring countries has escalated into a full-blown humanitarian ...