South Sudan News

EXPERIENCED nurses and midwives on the Isle of Wight are being called-on to give up their time to train medical professionals in Africa's newest country.

The restive state of Jonglei, South Sudan, where the South Sudan Army says it has recaptured the town of Boma from rebels.

Ugandans have been warned against revenging upon the south Sudan refugees in the country following the numerous reports of harassment of the Ugandan Traders operating in southern Sudan.

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Sudan, struggling with an economic crisis and a budget deficit, plans to sell stakes in four state-owned sugar plants to attract partners, the official news agency SUNA said.

Rumbek county court on Friday sentenced a government official to two years in prison for assaulting a reporter for South Sudan Television and threatening him with pistol in the Lakes state capital.

South Sudan has denied allegations that it is marginalising minority tribes in the government, asserting that those making such claims are individuals acting out of their own interests.

Sudan's foreign ministry has stated that the call of the UN secretary General for adding troops to the UN Interim Force for Abyei came in the context of an earlier agreement between Sudan and South Sudan and the UN.

South Sudan's vice-president, Riek Machar, has strongly directed the Sudan People's Liberation Army to distance itself from the ongoing political debates in the country.

A mother and her child from West Point, a low-income neighbourhood of Monrovia, Liberia.

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.

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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)