Nasir County News Today

Arrangements are underway for a delegation of South Sudan government officials and security officers to visit Nasir County in Upper Nile State to investigate last week’s clashes between armed locals and elements of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF).

At least one person was killed and two others injured in clashes involving rival Sudan People’s Liberation Army In Opposition (SPLA-IO) forces in Nasir County of Upper Nile state on Sunday.

Over 10,000 people in parts of Nasir County of South Sudan’s Upper Nile State remained without food and shelter weeks after floods destroyed their homes.

Gunmen attacked a passengers’ boat in Nasser County in the oil-rich Upper Nile State on Wednesday, killing one person, a local official said.

Uneasy calm as guns fall silent in Nasir Calm returned to Nasir County of Upper Nile State after three-pronged clashes involving the SSPDF, SPLA-IO, and civilians erupted there on Sunday, a local official said.  “The security situation is now normal. There was a government delegation that came from Juba and they came and briefed the people in Nasir and things are now back to normal. They told people not to fight,” Khor Gatluak, the Executive Director of Nasir County, told Radio Tamazuj W...

March 3, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir has appointed former Labour and Public Service minister, Gathoth Gatkouth as Upper Nile (...)