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The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization has warned of a growing trend of land-grabbing in public school environments in Juba, and urges the parliament to take urgent action against encroachment on school lands.

Prominent activist Edmund Yakani won the “African Outstanding Professional Award” for his peace and human rights activism in the country.

The peace dialogue between the Ngok people of Abyei Administrative Area and the Twic of Warrap State - has come up with a nine-point resolution in Western Bahr el Ghazal to end violence between the two communities.

The Directorate of Nationality, Passport, Immigration and Civil registry on Wednesday deported 20 foreigners who did not have proper travel documents despite a push from the civil society to spare them.

A renowned South Sudanese civil society activist has called on the governments of South Sudan and Sudan to expedite the process of deciding the final status of the contested Abyei Area which straddles the border of the two counties.

An official and locals in South Sudan’s Morobo County in Central Equatoria State people are fleeing villages in the area following atrocities by elements of the SPLA-IO there.

South Sudan’s Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved the electronic payment for civil servants' salaries to weed out ghost names.

Members of the South Sudan national legislative assembly have elected nine representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).

A lobby group, the Women Bloc of South Sudan, has demanded the formation of a ministry of women and children affairs.

The unity government is expected to introduce a new slogan for the unified security forces to replace the partisan slogans of Oyee and Viva among others, an activist has disclosed.