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South Sudan in Focus - March 01, 2022 from 2022-03-01T11:30
Lectures and other academic activities have come to a standstill Tuesday at the Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology in Bor town after striking students shut down operation...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 28, 2022 from 2022-02-28T11:30
Officials from Eastern Equatoria State say about 30 people were killed including women and children following an attack on a cattle camp in Eastern Equatoria along Juba – Nimule Highway; Authoritie...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 25, 2022 from 2022-02-25T11:30
Unidentified gunmen attacked Nyirol County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State Thursday killing at least seven fishermen; The head of South Sudan’s Elections Commission says the country needs at least s...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 24, 2022 from 2022-02-24T11:30
South Sudan’s oil production has fallen from 170,000 barrels a day to about 150,000 barrels a day. Petroleum minister Puot Kang Chol says oil production decreased amid negative impacts of heavy flo...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 24, 2022 from 2022-02-24T11:30
South Sudan’s oil production has fallen from 170,000 barrels a day to about 150,000 barrels a day. Petroleum minister Puot Kang Chol says oil production decreased amid negative impacts of heavy flo...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 23, 2022 from 2022-02-23T11:30
Some South Sudanese say two years after the country’s unity government was established, there is little to show that leaders are working to restore peace and stability across the country; Authoriti...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 22, 2022 from 2022-02-22T11:30
Lakes and Warrap States officials are condemning an inter-communal attack over the weekend which left nine people dead and 15 wounded; A 15-member delegation of the African Union Peace and Security...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 21, 2022 from 2022-02-21T11:30
Authorities in South Sudan’s Lakes State say wild fires burned eight women to death in Rumbek East county Sunday; Police in South Sudan’s Jonglei State capital Bor have arrested 5 suspects in conn...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 18, 2022 from 2022-02-18T11:30
Authorities in Leer County of South Sudan's Unity state say at least 12 people were killed and 11 others injured during clashes between armed youths on Wednesday and Thursday in the area; The US Ho...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 17, 2022 from 2022-02-17T11:30
A new report by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan says violence against civilians saw a 42 per cent reduction in 2021 compared with the year before; Civil society activists and residents in...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 16, 2022 from 2022-02-16T11:30
Authorities in South Sudan’s Abyei Administrative Area say hundreds of people have been displaced in Agok town following inter communal clashes last week which left more than a dozen people dead; A...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 15, 2022 from 2022-02-15T11:30
Authorities in South Sudan's Unity State and Ruweng Administrative Area say they have arrested nine people suspected to have been involved in cattle raiding that left a dozen people dead; The Europ...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 14, 2022 from 2022-02-14T11:30
As the world commemorated World Radio Day Sunday, many South Sudanese citizens say they rely on the medium to get current information on socio-economic and political affairs in the county; A group ...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 11, 2022 from 2022-02-11T11:30
Top UN human rights officials are warning that South Sudan may return to conflict as parties to the 2018 revitalized peace agreement drag their feet in implementing the deal; The Jonglei State gove...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 10, 2022 from 2022-02-10T11:30
A police spokesperson in South Sudan’s Lakes State says a gunman killed five police officers and wounded four other people before he was gunned down in Cueibet County on Wednesday; Authorities in P...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 09, 2022 from 2022-02-09T11:30
At least 9 people were injured when hundreds of protesters clashed with the bodyguards of South Sudan's Jonglei State governor in Bor town Wednesday; A Somali-owned fuel depot in Juba exploded last...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 08, 2022 from 2022-02-08T11:30
At least ten soldiers were killed in separate clashes between rival factions of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army ? In Opposition or SPLA-IO in Upper Nile State over the weekend; Central Equatoria...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 07, 2022 from 2022-02-07T11:30
The US government is calling on the government of South Sudan to hold politicians and military officers who are fueling violence in Jonglei State and the Pibor Administrative Area to account; Sudan...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 04, 2022 from 2022-02-04T11:30
Human rights organizations are calling on the South Sudan government to adopt and implement a human rights agenda that will address impunity, end repression, and ensure rights protection for South ...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 03, 2022 from 2022-02-03T11:30
Authorities in South Sudan's Upper Nile State have arrested four suspects behind the killing of a Sudanese businessman in Longechuk County; Sudan’s top military general has ordered the formation of...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 02, 2022 from 2022-02-02T11:30
South Sudan’s Ministry of Environment says the Sudd, one of the largest wetlands in the world, is under threat; US lawmakers have called for swift action to restore civilian rule in Sudan, includin...
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South Sudan in Focus - February 01, 2022 from 2022-02-01T11:30
Authorities in Jonglei State say thousands of civilians displaced by recent inter-communal violence in Bor County are in dire need of food, medicine and shelter; A delegation from the Intergovernme...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 31, 2022 from 2022-01-31T11:30
Some residents of the South Sudan capital, Juba, Gumbo suburb are calling on the Rajaf Payam authorities to legalize their settlement. They threaten to stop paying taxes if their settlement is not ...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 28, 2022 from 2022-01-28T11:30
Frequent travelers in the South Sudan’s capital Juba are complaining about high fares charged by Kenya Airways; Some displaced people living in the protection of civilians (POC) site in the South S...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 27, 2022 from 2022-01-27T11:30
Community leaders at the Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan’s Unity State capital Bentiu are accusing armed forces of kidnapping at least 15 children from the camp; Hundreds of protesters ...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 26, 2022 from 2022-01-26T11:30
South Sudanese express mixed reactions to a decision by the country’s lawmakers to increase their monthly allowances from around 23 US dollars to 2,000 US dollars; The France based medical charity ...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 25, 2022 from 2022-01-25T11:30
The chief administrator for the Greater Pibor Administrative Area denies armed men from that locality were responsible for attacks in Jonglei State’s Bor County that killed 32 people and injured 27...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 24, 2022 from 2022-01-24T11:30
Rival members of the Anglican Church in South Sudan’s Jonglei State attacked a church compound with automatic weapons over the weekend injuring a bishop and several members of the clergy; Rights ac...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 21, 2022 from 2022-01-21T11:30
Authorities in Warrap State's Gogriel East County are pursuing a suspected member of the South Sudan People’s Defense Force who reportedly killed two women with a knife and shot another man in Kong...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 20, 2022 from 2022-01-20T11:30
Thousands of people are fleeing their villages in Kapoeta East County of South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State due to hunger; Local leaders and communities in Twic County of South Sudan’s Warrap St...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 19, 2022 from 2022-01-19T11:30
A presidential committee formed last year to address the issue of land grabbing and illegal settlement in the South Sudan capital, Juba, says it is mapping plots illegally seized to address conflic...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 18, 2022 from 2022-01-18T11:30
Some South Sudanese political analysts warn the deals the SPLM-In Government signed with the SPLM-In Opposition Kit-Gwang faction and the Agwelek group may hamper efforts to restore peace and stabi...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 17, 2022 from 2022-01-17T11:30
The leader of the SPLA-IO breakaway Kit-Gwang faction, Simon Gatwech, signed an agreement in Khartoum Sunday to be integrated into the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF); Authorities in No...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 14, 2022 from 2022-01-14T11:30
Western Bahr el Ghazal State in South Sudan has suspended its government operations in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19; Authorities in Maban County of Upper Nile State say nearly 2,000 ...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 13, 2022 from 2022-01-13T11:30
Sudanese resistance committees, the main force behind Sudan’s revolution, have called for a mass protest in Khartoum Thursday; The United States, the United Kingdom and Norway are urging the South ...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 12, 2022 from 2022-01-12T11:30
South Sudanese lawmakers say they are working to implement the revitalized peace agreement, with 90% of the provisions already enacted; Authorities in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State sa...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 11, 2022 from 2022-01-11T11:30
Sudan’s Sovereign Council has welcomed the United Nations initiative aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis; The new governor of South Sudan's central bank says he is working to cut infl...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 10, 2022 from 2022-01-10T11:30
Authorities in the Jonglei State’s Nyirol County says at least two bodies have been found days after four boys went missing in Uror County; Juba residents are expressing mixed views following the e...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 07, 2022 from 2022-01-07T11:30
Dozens of former employees of the World Food Program have blocked the entrance to a humanitarian hub in Bor on Friday. The workers, who are protesting a three-month delay in payment, blocked the ga...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 06, 2022 from 2022-01-06T11:30
Authorities in Jonglei State say they have managed to convince a large number of Lou Nuer young men against revenge attacks in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area; A community leader from Rejaf v...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 05, 2022 from 2022-01-05T11:30
Authorities in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal State's Aweil East County say at least 15 people were killed and several others injured by suspected Messeriya Arab nomads yesterday; The mayor of South S...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 04, 2022 from 2022-01-04T11:30
South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly has nominated leaders to head specialized committees in the parliament; Authorities in the Lakes State's Awerial County have detained more t...
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South Sudan in Focus - January 03, 2022 from 2022-01-03T11:30
Some Sudanese political parties have praised Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok’s decision to resign, describing it as courageous; The Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition or SPLA-IO in Jonglei...
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South Sudan in Focus - December 31, 2021 from 2021-12-31T11:30
A senior Catholic leader says South Sudanese lawmakers have done very little to stop violence in the country; South Sudanese on the streets of Juba expressing their wishes as they celebrate the arr...
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South Sudan in Focus - December 30, 2021 from 2021-12-30T11:30
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemns the looting of food from UN facilities in Darfur; Twenty young men are arrested in Jonglei state for starting intercommunal violence; And civil s...
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South Sudan in Focus - December 29, 2021 from 2021-12-29T11:30
Clashes between two rival SPLA-IO factions have left an unknown number of soldiers dead on both sides; Authorities say several people drowned when a boat they were traveling in capsized in the Soba...
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South Sudan in Focus - December 28, 2021 from 2021-12-28T11:30
The Sudanese Sovereign Council will begin preparations early next month for general elections expected in July 2023; Civil servants in the Jonglei state capital, Bor, have started receiving their s...
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South Sudan in Focus - December 28, 2021 from 2021-12-28T11:30
The Sudanese Sovereign Council will begin preparations early next month for general elections expected in July 2023; Civil servants in the Jonglei state capital, Bor, have started receiving their s...
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South Sudan in Focus - December 27, 2021 from 2021-12-27T11:30
Police say at least four people died and 43 others were injured Sunday as a result of road-related accidents in Juba; Authorities in Jonglei state capital Bor say at least two people were killed an...
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South Sudan in Focus - August 21, 2019 from 2020-08-21T13:14:56
Rebels of the National Salvation Front (NAS) say their forces killed six bodyguards assigned to South Sudan’s Vice President James Wani Igga during an attack at Lo’bonok village nearly 90 kilometer...
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South Sudan in Focus - August 19, 2020 from 2020-08-19T15:51:24
Four people were killed and others injured during an attack on the bodyguards of South Sudan’s vice President James Wani Igga; a soldier from the south Sudan Peoples Defense Forces shot and killed ...
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South Sudan in Focus - August 17, 2019 from 2020-08-18T09:11:06
The Archbishop of the Internal Province of Jonglei in the Episcopal Church of South defies orders to quit his job; Sudanese and Egyptian officials say negotiations are the best solutions to the Eth...
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South Sudan in Focus - August 14, 2020 from 2020-08-14T13:01:43
The Trump Administration plans to impose visa restrictions on people believed to be undermining Sudan’s civilian-led government. U.S Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a statement released T...
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South Sudan in Focus from 2020-06-10T13:28:46
The United States, United Kingdom and Norway call on the Transitional Government of National Unity to form state and local governments in South Sudan; a government official who recently recovered f...
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