[The Conversation Africa] In early March, South Sudan's Chief of Defence Forces, Gabriel Jok Riak, asked the Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan to suspend the peacekeeping rotation from five Asian countries. T...

[IGAD] Djibouti -We, the Heads of State and Government of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), convening via video-conference at the Extraordinary Summit on coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic on 31st March 2020:

[Monitor] South Sudan refugees have continued to enter Uganda despite the closure of the country's borders as directed by President Yoweri Museveni.

[VOA] Sudan has seen a small handful of coronavirus cases so far, and only one death. But health authorities are concerned because large numbers of people have either escaped quarantine or are refusing to quarantine altogether.

[The Conversation Africa] The novel coronavirus is now being transmitted through the six continents. A key concern is for those who are already extremely vulnerable - those who are caught in ongoing humanitarian emergencies, such as those in Syria, S...

BY: Santino Anek, Up State, NEW YORK, USA, APR/04/2020, SSN; The wondering of Riek’s interest in Ruweng Administrative Area is the enquiry of the moment, and all the moments that have led up to now, and the ones that’re sure to follow. Ac...

By Duop Chak Wuol, Editor-in-Chief, SouthSudanNewsAgency.org., MAR/27/2020, SSN; In recent days, the newly appointed minister of health, Elizabeth Achuei Yol, has come under intense criticism from many South Sudanese, most of whom mocked the minister...

MAR/25/2020, DailyNation; Sudanese Defence Minister Lieutenant General Jamal al-Din Omar died of an unspecified illness Wednesday while in neighbouring South Sudan for peace talks with his country’s main rebel groups, the military announced. Om...

BY: Elhag Paul, South Sudanese, MAR/23/2020, SSN; The international community, African Union, regional organisations and the so-called ‘elites’ of South Sudan are jubilant with the formation of the Revitalised Transitional Government of National ...

BY: Duop Chak Wuol, Editor-in-Chief of the independent South Sudan News Agency, MAR/22/2020, SSN; The 17th of March 2020 defection of a Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) high-ranking military officer Lieutenant General James Ko...