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South Sudanese Refugee Recalls Harrowing Escape Amid Sudan's Conflict
MENAFN
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April 20, 2025
(MENAFN) As the conflict in Sudan escalated, Sarah Williams and her children found themselves ensnared in the violence that swept through their Khartoum neighborhood. Gunfire shattered the tranquility of their home, flames engulfed nearby...
South Sudan opposition party names interim chair as Machar remains detained
MENAFN
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April 10, 2025
(MENAFN) South Sudan's primary opposition party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), announced on Wednesday the appointment of an interim chair. This decision comes as the party's First Vice President, Riek Machar,...
A foreign policy that always faces forward
South African Government
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August 25, 2025
Dear Fellow South African, Last week our country participated in the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Japan. This is an important forum for strengthening bilateral trade and investment between Japan and...
US Cancels Visas for South Sudanese Passport Holders
MENAFN
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April 6, 2025
(MENAFN) On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would be cancelling all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and halting the issuance of new visas. This decision comes after allegations that South...
Visa cancellation: US sanctions South Sudan on deportee issue
MENAFN
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April 6, 2025
(MENAFN) The United States, under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has declared an immediate cancellation of visas for all South Sudanese passport holders. Additionally, the US will prevent any South Sudanese citizens from entering the country at...
South Sudan: Using sports and arts to combat sexual and gender-based violence
International Committee of the Red Cross
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March 4, 2025
In 2024, the ICRC, in partnership with the South Sudanese Red Cross Society (SSRC), organized awareness-raising sessions on sexual and gender-based violence to more than 5,000 community members in nine locations across the country, including...
Chemical Weapons Attack in South Sudan Condemned by World Without War
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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March 24, 2025
NEW YORK, March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- World Without War has condemned recent airstrikes on civilian targets in Nasir, South Sudan, amid reports that the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) used chemical incendiary weapons. Images and...
South Sudan Facts & Figures 2024
International Committee of the Red Cross
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February 19, 2025
In response, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) addressed protection needs for people separated and families of the missing, and visited places of detention to improve conditions and ensure that individuals deprived of their...
Transforming South Sudan’s Agricultural Future: John Ladu Simon Jacob
UN International Training and Research Center
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February 21, 2025
Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent...
Harvesting Hope: Transforming South Sudan’s Agricultural Future
UN International Training and Research Center
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February 20, 2025
Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent...
US locks in agreement to deport migrants Uganda
MENAFN
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August 21, 2025
(MENAFN) Uganda has reached an agreement with the United States to host migrants from third countries being deported from the US, CBS reported on Tuesday, citing internal documents. The deal is part of the Trump administration’s broader push for...
Sudan rejects allegations of discussing forcibly moving Palestinians from Gaza with Israel
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN) Reports indicate that South Sudan has denied claims suggesting it is negotiating with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza. Sources note that Israel is reportedly seeking arrangements with third countries to host people displaced...
Members stress importance of boosting LDCs’ participation in agricultural supply chains
World Trade Organization
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March 27, 2025
LDCs' participation in agricultural supply chains The Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) outlined its current work in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea and Senegal aimed at improving LDCs' agricultural export...
Clear Blue Technologies to Provide Renewable Energy Solutions for Telecom Sites in Rural South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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September 11, 2024
Clear Blue Technologies to implement renewable energy solutions, bringing sustainable power to rural, off-grid telecommunications sites in South Sudan and the DRC. Hybrid renewable energy-battery systems will ensure market-leading 99.97% uptime...
Sudan Battles Deadliest Cholera Outbreak in Years
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN) Sudan is facing its most lethal cholera outbreak in years, with close to 100,000 suspected infections and more than 2,470 deaths reported since August 2024, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. The country’s Health Ministry...
Sudan Reports 40 Fatalities, 2,300 Cases in Cholera
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN) Over 2,300 new cholera cases and 40 deaths were reported in Sudan's Darfur region within the past week, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday, calling the situation the worst cholera crisis the country has faced in years. "On...
Media reports Nigeria excluding accepting US deportees
MENAFN
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August 13, 2025
(MENAFN) Nigeria has announced it will not take in foreign migrants deported from the United States, despite other African nations agreeing to such arrangements, local media report. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kimiebi Ebienfa said the country is...
Nigeria Rejects Deportees from US
MENAFN
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August 11, 2025
(MENAFN) Nigeria has declared it will refuse to accept foreign migrants deported from the United States, even though neighboring countries have agreed to such arrangements under deals with Washington, a local newspaper reported, quoting the...
MSF Criticizes Abduction of Health Worker in Sudan
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) a prominent international humanitarian medical organization, has vehemently denounced the kidnapping of a Ministry of Health employee from one of its ambulances in South Sudan's Morobo County. The organization stated that the incident,...
Over One Million Sudanese Head Back to Their Homes
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) Despite ongoing violence throughout Sudan, more than one million internally displaced individuals have made their way back to their homes as "pockets of relative safety have emerged," alongside approximately 320,000 others who have...