Latest South Sudan government News

South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave

Mar. 17, 2024 22:22 PM EDT

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is closing all schools starting Monday in preparation for an extreme heat wave expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45 degrees...

A South Sudan activist in the US is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup back home

Mar. 05, 2024 19:46 PM EST

PHOENIX (AP) — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the government...

South Sudan blames fighting in neighboring Sudan and attacks in the Red Sea for its crisis

Feb. 28, 2024 07:15 AM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's government on Tuesday blamed the country's economic crisis in part on the fighting in neighboring Sudan and the instability in the Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking international shipping. With most government workers...