South Sudan News

As they gathered in caps and gowns before Saturday's commencement ceremony, the line of students and faculty snaking through the sunny campus plaza, SUNY Canton's class of 2013 recalled their time at college.

Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has set the tone for his party's election campaign, saying the terrain "will be determined by those that are able to give answers to Zimbabwe's challenges". Juba - Major Western nations are "deeply disturbed" about the abuse and killing of civilians and the looting of property in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, ... (more)

The US government has provided Rwanda Defense Force a field Catering Equipment worth 1.2 Million USD.

As pressure between Sudan and South Sudan builds, it seems that the church in Khartoum may expect renewed scrutiny and accompanying pressure.

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An MSF doctor examines a baby in Pibor town in South Sudan's Jonglei state, after ethnic violence flared up in the area earlier this month.

Thank you for that kind introduction, and for having me here today. And thank you for your decades of service to refugees in this country and around the world.

Members of parliament seating on parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure have today grilled the minister of works and transport Eng Abraham Byandala over the construction of the road connecting Karamoja region to South Sudan.

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.

If you've already crossed the Appalachian Trail off your bucket list, hiked the length of New Zealand along the Te Araroa and walked through the Alps on the Haute Route , then I may have found your next big adventure: a new long-distance hiking trail set to open in Africa early next year that will give adventurous travelers an opportunity to follow ... (more)

Some of the world's leading beauty pageants from a number of countries in Asia, America, Europe, Middle East and Africa are expected to visit Juba next month in response to an invitation by their South Sudanese counterpart, Atong Ajak De Mach.

The study by Revenue Watch, which was released Wednesday in Washington, D.C., says that less than 20 percent of the 58 countries studied "embraced openness and accountability." These 58 countries produce 85 percent of the world's petroleum, 90 percent of the world's diamonds, and 80 percent of the world's copper, according to Revenue Watch.

Governors from Greater Bahr el Ghazal states are at odds over who to support for South Sudan's presidency, highlighting the internal differences within the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement in the run up to the 2015 general elections.

Sudanese defence minister Abdel-Rahim Hussein was Wednesday in Al-Obeid, capital of North Korodfan state to review the ongoing preparation to retake Abu-Kershola, an area the rebels control since 27 April.

The UN Mission in South Sudan says it will stay in Jonglei state, where government troops are battling rebels led by David Yau Yau, but calls on the government to do its part, too.

"Today we are launching a very high-level committee to investigate the dura contracts," Minister of Legal Affairs John Luk Jok said.

The chairman of the Islamic Center for Preaching and Comparative Studies Ammar Saleh said that cases of apostasy and atheism are on the rise in the country and accused authorities of negligence in addressing this issue.

Four people have been arrested in connection with last week's highway robbery incident, in which a senior South Sudan army official was injured in Lakes state.

A group of Sudanese opposition politicians visiting neighboring South Sudan have accused Khartoum of complicity in the May 5 killing of the paramount chief of the contested border region of Abyei, Kuol Deng Kuol, who was murdered by Arab nomads from the Misseriya tribe, while he was travelling in a United Nations convoy.

After some time out of the limelight following his spectacular fall from grace in 2011, former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resurfaced in unusual circumstances.