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South Sudan authorities have lifted the temporary ban on Facebook and TikTok, which was imposed last week following the circulation of videos depicting the alleged killings of South Sudanese ...
Dinka from Twic County south of Abyei have been involved in a border conflict with Abyei's Ngok Dinka over land and cattle since February 2022. Despite a peace agreement in April 2023, clashes broke out again in September 2023 with Twic Dinka killing Ngok Dinka civilians in raids on border towns.
The National Salvation Front was founded on March 6, 2017, by Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, a member of the Bari ethnic group. Cirillo had been the Deputy Chief of Staff of Logistics for the army of South Sudan, the SPLA, but he resigned on February 11, 2017, in response to what he believed was the "tribalization" of the army under the leadership of president Salva Kiir. [7]
South Sudan (/ s uː ˈ d ɑː n,-ˈ d æ n /), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. [16] It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the west by the Central African Republic. South Sudan's diverse ...
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in South Sudan, Aftermath of the South Sudanese Civil War, Sudanese nomadic conflicts, ethnic violence in South Sudan January 28 – Nairobi Declaration [ 1 ] April 5 – An international human development agency says that 13 Jiye/Jie people have died from conditions related to famine in Kapoeta , while hundreds of ...
General elections are due to be held in South Sudan on 22 December 2026, the first since independence.. Initially scheduled to be held by 9 July 2015, [1] [2] in light of an alleged coup d'état attempt and continuing conflict in the country this was thrown into doubt, especially since no permanent constitution had been formulated.
The Sudan Tribune is an electronic news portal on Sudan and South Sudan [1] and neighbouring countries including news coverage, analyses and commentary, official reports and press releases from various organizations, and maps.
The politics of South Sudan concern the system of government in the Republic of South Sudan, a country in East Africa, and the people, organizations, and events involved in it. As a region, the Republic of South Sudan gained autonomy in 2005 with former rebel leader Dr. John Garang becoming the President of New Sudan and the Vice President of ...