WASHINGTON, Jul 7 (IPS) - Two days before celebrating the independence of South Sudan in Juba, senior U.S. officials warned Thursday that unresolved issues between the new country and Khartoum, as ...
South Sudan won independent statehood following an internationally supervised referendum in 2011. The transitional constitution, drafted after the referendum, is the country’s founding law. It ...
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan's polling centres closed their doors on Saturday after a week-long vote on independence from the north that could end a vicious cycle of civil war with the creation ...
A record 4.5 million children – two out of three – in South Sudan are in desperate need of humanitarian support, UNICEF warned today, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the country’s independence. In a ...
South Sudan's government and rebels are set for New Year's Day peace talks in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to thrash out a ceasefire to end weeks of ethnic bloodletting in the world's newest state ...
A U.S. diplomat on Tuesday questioned the impact of billions of dollars in oil revenue and international aid spent in South ...
Fourteen years ago, South Sudanese danced in the streets, drunk on the promise of freedom and self-determination. The world celebrated with them, hailing the birth of Africa’s newest nation. But this ...