Around 3,00,000 South Sudanese fled country in 2025, largely due to conflict: U.N.

South Sudan has been beset by political instability and ethnic violence since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. File. | Photo Credit: AP Around 3,00,000 South Sudanese have fled the country in 2025 alone, largely due to escalating...

Ex Somali Prime Minister appointed AU Special Representative to South Sudan

Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, former Somali Prime Minister and new AU Special Representative to South Sudan and Head of the AU Liaison Office in Juba. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – The African Union (AU) has appointed former Somali Prime Minister Dr....

Governor Mujung announces leadership changes in Juba City Council

Author: Lasuba Memo | Published: 44 minutes ago CES Governor Rabi Mujun Emmanuel| The Governor of Central Equatoria State, Lt. Gen. Rabi Mujung Emmanuel, has issued a series of gubernatorial decrees announcing significant leadership changes within...

Minister says Irish funds for Gaza rebuilding won't be diverted from other programmes

James Cox A Government minister has said Ireland's aid contribution to the reconstruction of Gaza will not mean funding is diverted from other programmes, adding "at a time like this it's even more important for a small country like Ireland to...

Kenya’s cyber law partially suspended amid rights challenge

Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 6 hours ago Cover of Kenya's Cybercrime Law NAIROBI, KENYA (Eye Radio) — The enforcement of key provisions within Kenya’s controversial Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2024, has been temporarily...

Unite for a Peaceful and Prosperous South Sudan

By Deng Chol South Sudan has endured years of division, conflict, and mistrust. Families live with uncertainty, communities struggle to rebuild, and hope for a better future is often delayed. The question is not whether peace and prosperity are...

300,000 South Sudanese fled country in 2025, largely due to conflict: UN

Mon Oct 13, 2025 04:44 PM Last update on: Mon Oct 13, 2025 04:57 PM AFP, Nairobi Mon Oct 13, 2025 04:44 PM Last update on: Mon Oct 13, 2025 04:57 PM Around 300,000 South Sudanese have fled the country in 2025 alone, largely due to escalating...

Sudan deports 100+ South Sudanese women, leaving children behind

Sudanese authorities have deported more than 100 South Sudanese women from Khartoum, separating at least 61 of them from their children, South Sudanese officials said on Sunday. The women were reportedly detained either on the streets or in their...

Private sector key to peace, equality in South Sudan – report

The private sector can be a transformative force in addressing South Sudan’s interconnected challenges of conflict, climate change and gender inequality, according to a new report unveiled Monday. The report from the Institute of Social Policy and...

Conflict sends 300,000 people fleeing from South Sudan in 2025: UN 

About 300,000 people have fled South Sudan so far in 2025 as armed conflict between rival leaders threatens civil war, the United Nations warns. The mass displacement was reported on Monday by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. The...

Governor Dollar moves to Nasir to tackle insecurity and engage youth

Author: Emmanuel J. Akile | Published: 3 hours ago Vice President Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel greets Upper Nile State Governor Hon. Jacob Dollar Ruot during their meeting on Thursday, October 16, 2025. (Photo courtesy of the VP Office) Juba, South Sudan...

Kenya, Türkiye explore deepened trade, defence and security ties

Turkiye Ambassador Subutay Yüksel and Health CS Aden Duale during the 102nd anniversary of the founding of Türkiye Republic in NairobiKenya and Türkiye have pledged to elevate their longstanding diplomatic partnership into ties focused on peace,...

Veteran South Sudanese journalist Michael Koma dies at 50

Michael Koma, a veteran South Sudanese journalist and editor known for his independent political commentary, has died. He was 50. Koma died Sunday night in the capital, Juba, after a short illness, according to a statement from the Union of...

International monitor says South Sudan rivals recruiting fighters, raising war fears

JUBA, South Sudan — An international ceasefire monitor says parties to South Sudan’s faltering peace agreement have recruited new fighters and abducted children to participate in a conflict that observers have warned could widen again into civil...

CES orders Juba city to report on cemeteries occupied by residents

Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 5 hours ago Makeshift camp for displaced and homeless persons inside abandoned cemetery at Hai Malakal residential area. | 8th August 2022. | Photo: Lou Nelson/Eye Radio. The Central Equatoria State Security...

UN rights body urges AU, UN action to avert new South Sudan war

Members of UN Human Rights Commission on South Sudan addresses journalists at the UN House in Juba on Friday, February 16, 2024. [Photo by Sudans Post]ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA – A U.N. rights commission warned on Monday that South Sudan’s worsening...

CES minister shuts down rock city, Khor Woliang slaughterhouses

Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 5 hours ago The surrounding of Khor Woliang slaughterhouse|Courtwsy Central Equatoria State Ministry of Animal Resources, Fisheries, and Tourism on Wednesday ordered the immediate closure of Rock City and Khor...

Opinion | The dangerous logic: Why arming South Sudan rebels is justified

Every dictator fears talk of resistance more than actual revolt. When people take up armed struggle, regimes rush to rewrite the story, portraying the fight for survival as a threat and the uprising as illegitimate, all to maintain their grip on...

Blacks and whites clash for the first time in Mzansi – 550 years ago

0.5% of the male population are descended from Genghis Khan. (Scientists did a study in 2003 showing that about 16 million dudes share a Y chromosome with the famous Emperor.) 1497 After sailing for almost four months down the Atlantic without...

East African Governments Coordinate Efforts to Quash Dissent, Activists Say

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Agather Atuhaire, a journalist and human rights activist, traveled to Tanzania in May to observe the trial of Tundu Lissu, a Tanzanian opposition leader charged by the government with treason. But a day after she arrived, she...