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By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA (Reuters) - Six people including a senior local administrator were killed in an ambush by armed men in the Abyei region clai...

The UN Secretary-Generals Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Nicholas Haysom stressed that South Sudan must secure public confidence to ensure that its first...

The Primate of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS), Justin Badi Arama, has called on the government to honour its commitment to conduct elections in December 2024.

The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on Tuesday strongly condemned attacks by a group of armed youths on villages in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan which resulted in an estimated 27 people killed and 14 injured. The organization denied reports published in the media claiming UNISFA peacekeepers were killed or wounded during the incident. In response to the attacks, UNISFA said in a statement that it rushed to enhance security in the affected area ...

19 (Xinhua) -- At least 32 people were killed Sunday in deadly communal fighting along South Sudans border with the disputed Abyei Administrative Area, an official said.

Calm has returned to the Abyei Administrative Area following a deadly attack in Athony village last week, which resulted in the loss of five lives. However, senior officials in Abyei and Warrap have traded accusations of mobilizations of armed youth on either side.

Our teams are seeing alarming levels of measles and malnutrition among people fleeing the conflict in Sudan and arriving in South Sudan. We call for an urgent scale up to the humanitarian response before more lives are lost.

Measles in South Sudan: People Escaping Conflict in Sudan Face New Health Crisis

The authorities of Warrap State on Monday received a total of 301 returnees. Among them were 151 individuals who had returned from Paloch town of Upper Nile State and another 150 from Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.

Abyei’s Minister of Information said that four suspected armed youth from Twic County in Warrap State were killed, and one local youth from Abyei was seriously injured during an attempted cattle raid in the village of Wunruop over the weekend.