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In May 2017 there was a restructure and the SPLA took on the name of South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF), with another change in September 2018 to South Sudan People's Defence Forces. As of 2018 [update] , the army was estimated to have 185,000 soldiers as well as an unknown number of personnel in the small South Sudan Air Force .
Representatives of each parties participating in the initiative after the signing of eight protocols. Tumaini Peace Initiative, which was launched on May 9, 2024, in the Kenyan Capital Nairobi, is a high-level mediation for the conflict in South Sudan by incorporating all the holdout groups that have not signed the 2018 R-ARCSS (Revitalised Agreement on Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan).
South Sudan (/ s uː ˈ d ɑː n,-ˈ d æ n /), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in Central/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 Central African Republic. South Sudan's diverse ...
Bentiu is located in Rubkona County, Unity State, [1] in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, near the international border with the Republic of the Sudan. It lies approximately 654 kilometers (406 miles), by road, northwest of Juba, the capital and largest city in the country. [2] Bentiu sits on the southern bank of the Bahr el Ghazal ...
Active. 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. It is based in Paris, France, and run by a team of Sudanese and international editors and journalists.
July 15, 1956 (age 68) Bor, Republic of Sudan [2] Nationality. South Sudanese. Spouse. John Garang. Children. Akuol de Mabior. Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior (born 15 July 1956) [2] is a South Sudanese politician who currently serves as the 4th Vice President of South Sudan. [1][3][4] She is also the head of the Gender and Youth Cluster.
Politics of South Sudan. 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 ...
South Sudan's modern history is closely tied to that of Sudan. These ties began in the 19th century with the southward expansion of the Ottoman Khedivate of Egypt and the establishment of Turco-Egyptian Sudan with the land that makes up modern South Sudan remaining a part of Sudan through the Mahdist State, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the Republic ...