The Latest Breaking News from South Sudan

In tonight's edition: Kigali says that a refund is not on the table now that the UK's new PM, Keir Starmer, has scrapped the controversial deportation plan. Hundreds of millions of pounds have already been spent building homes as planned. Meanwhile, a deal signed between Benin and Nigeria in May…

In tonight's edition: Ethiopia's prime minister becomes the first foreign leader to visit Sudan since its descent into brutal conflict as trapped residents from the besieged city of Al Fashir speak of drones hunting down civilians in the streets. Also, neighbouring South Sudan is facing more economic turbulence as the…

Discover the challenges and efforts to protect the world's largest land mammal migration in South Sudan's Badingilo and Boma National Parks.

South Sudan's most comprehensive aerial wildlife survey found about 6 million antelope — a figure that would make it the world's largest land mammal migration

The movement is more than double that of east Africa’s renowned ‘great migration’ and has continued despite decades of war and instability

South Sudan’s vice president says peace talks in neighboring Kenya have failed to acknowledge the country’s peace agreement established in 2018, alleging a new draft agreement is aimed at replacing the original peace deal

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that without concerted peace efforts in war-torn Sudan, people will continue to flee to neighbouring countries. Filippo Grandi's comments came ahead of World Refugee Day Thursday, when he highlighted the desperate plight of millions of refugees and internally displaced people across Africa.

The conflict in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which broke out on April 15, 2023, has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and the displacement of over 9 million people. More than 650,000 of them have now fled to neighbouring South Sudan. These survivors have…

The divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan despite appeals from the world’s newest nation, the African Union and half a dozen countries including Russia and China to lift or at least ease the restrictive measure