Sources: BBC
South Sudan orders the closure of all schools in the country for two weeks due to a heat wave, with temperatures expected to reach 42 C. 2025-02-21
South Sudanese authorities arrest six journalists from the country's public broadcaster on suspicion of distributing unauthorized footage of President Salva Kiir Mayardit that went viral internationally in December. 2023-01-7
A hand grenade explodes in a night club in the city of Yambio in South Sudan, killing at least ten people and injuring dozens of others. The police commissioner in the city confirmed that the explosion is not related to the ongoing civil war in the country. 2018-10-1
Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria. 2017-03-10
The Ethiopian Army crosses the border into South Sudan with the latter's approval in search of more than 100 children who were kidnapped and spirited across the border in a surprise attack by unknown assailants that also killed 208 people a few days ago. 2016-04-21
North Sudan dismisses calls by the United Nations Security Council to leave the disputed Abyei region on the border with South Sudan. 2011-06-4
People in Southern Sudan vote in a referendum on independence. 2011-01-9
The commission overseeing the independence referendum in Southern Sudan rejects a lawsuit to halt the referendum on the basis that the commission violated the law. 2010-12-27
Crowds gather in the South Sudan capital Juba to mark one month until the referendum on independence. 2010-12-9
In South Sudan there is violence for the third time in a week between the army and forces led by the former general George Athor. 2010-05-12