At least 20 people have been killed and 18 others injured in South Sudan's Jonglei State after two rival communities clashed over renaming of a contested village, a local government official said Wednesday.
Jacob Akech Deng, Jonglei State Information Minister, told Xinhua by phone that clashes erupted in Bor South County over the weekend after rival groups disagreed on changingRead more
More than 170 people have been killed in fighting between rival cattle herders in central South Sudan in the past week, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.
"When it comes to those who are wounded, it is almost 200," added Dharuai Mabor Teny, a member of parliament from the Western Lakes area, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of the capitalRead more
At least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in battles in South Sudan, local officials said Friday, the latest in a series of attacks between rival communities.
"More than 60 people were killed," Akol Paul Kordit, a member of parliament for the area and deputy information minister, wrote in a statement. Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny confirmed theRead more
Fifty people were killed in raids by a tribal militia in eastern South Sudan, a local official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks between rival communities.
Dut Achuek, a state minister, said eight people died in an attack on Monday in Jonglei state, while a follow-up raid on Tuesday left "23 women killed and... 19 men killed."Read more
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is set to visit neighboring Sudan next week to hold talks with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Bashir on ways of enhancing bilateral ties between the two countries, a presidential spokesman said Saturday.
Ateny Wek Ateny said the South Sudanese leaders' visit to Khartoum on Tuesday seeks to revive implementation of the nine cooperation agreements theRead more
Rebels in South Sudan killed four soldiers when they attacked a strategic northeastern town to try to push the government out ahead of a resumption of peace talks, a government spokesman said on Monday.
The soldiers came under heavy fire on Sunday in Waat town and 14 were also wounded, said Dickson Gatluak Jock, spokesman for Vice President Taban DengRead more
South Sudan's parliament has passed a $300 million (250 million euro) budget despite the war-torn country's government conceding it lacked the funds to pay for it.
Nearly four years of civil war, as well as inadequate and decrepit infrastructure, have left the country with few sources of revenue, with oil fields that used to account for 90 percent of governmentRead more
Military helicopters to carry troops, others to carry bombs and giant cargo planes to carry food: Welcome to shattered South Sudan’s Juba airport.
A handful of commercial airliners are also visible not far from the terminal, but they are heavily outnumbered by aid agency aircraft that every day take personnel and equipment all over this war-torn country, landing in oftenRead more
The South Sudanese government on Friday denied that there is genocide taking place in the country.
The denial followed remarks by the Britain Secretary for International Development Priti Patel, who said Wednesday that tribal genocide is taking place in the war-torn country.
President Salva Kiir's spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told Xinhua that the government can not commit genocide against itsRead more