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UN reports a 35% increase in people affected by violence in South Sudan

Mar. 19, 2024 05:47 AM EDT

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The number of people affected by violence in South Sudan surged by 35% in the last three months of 2023, the United Nations reported. The U.N. Mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, documented 233 incidents of violence affecting 862 people. Of that, 406 were...

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...

Violence and rights abuses threaten South Sudan's stability, a UN report warns

Mar. 02, 2024 14:26 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Mass violence and gross human rights violations in South Sudan continue unabated ahead of landmark elections due to take place in December, a report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has warned. Patterns of violence, violations and...

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...

37 people killed in disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei in fighting linked to spiritual leader

Feb. 04, 2024 19:47 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Thirty-seven people were killed over the weekend in fighting apparently tied to a land feud in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, an official said Sunday. The bloodshed came a week after 52 people died in a land dispute in the same region. Information...

38 people killed and 52 wounded in communal clashes over land in South Sudan, officials report

Feb. 01, 2024 18:14 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Residents of a swampy area in central South Sudan battled with cattle herders who moved in looking for water and pasture during the dry season, and at least 38 people were killed and 52 suffered gunshot wounds, officials said Thursday. The fighting started...

52 killed in clashes in the disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei, an official says

Jan. 28, 2024 16:31 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Gunmen attacked villagers in the oil-rich region of Abyei claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a U.N. peacekeeper, and 64 wounded, a regional official said Sunday. The motive for the attack Saturday evening was...