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South Sudan Withdraws Troops From DRC

South Sudanese soldiers. Photo: File Juba, December 9, 2023 (SSNA) -- South Sudanese troops who were sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in April this year have returned to South Sudan, a senior officer at the Ministry of Defense who asked to remain anonymous told the South Sudan News Agency...

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News

United Democratic Revolutionary Movement’s Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the December 2013 Juba Massacre

4 months ago

News, Press Releases, South Sudan

“…Nyamet Steven, who was born with cerebral palsy, walks with a walker at Mahad camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Juba on April 17, 2018.” Photo: AFP UDRM/K Press…

South Sudan Withdraws Troops From DRC

4 months ago

Breaking News, News, South Sudan, Top Stories

South Sudanese soldiers. Photo: File Juba, December 9, 2023 (SSNA) — South Sudanese troops who were sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in April this year have returned…

World

Evangelical Group Offers Farming Opportunities for Families in Unity State

6 months ago

News, South Sudan, World

Photo: samaritanspurse.org Bentiu, November 3, 2023 (SSNA) — A nondenominational evangelical Christian organization, Samaritan’s Purse, is helping South Sudan’s Unity State struggling families grow their own food. The agency helps…

UN Honors Chinese Peacekeepers in South Sudan

6 months ago

News, South Sudan, World

Chinese peacekeepers receive UN peace medals in Wau, South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS Juba, October 30, 2023 (SSNA) — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has awarded peace medals…

Education

Over 69,000 students are expected to take primary school examinations

6 months ago

Education, News, South Sudan

Photo: globalpartnership.org Juba, October 18, 2023 (SSNA) — The South Sudan National Examinations Council (SSNEC) has announced that it has set the date of the examinations for primary school students…

WFP launches school feeding program

1 year ago

Education, News, South Sudan

Photo: WFP Juba, January 25, 2023 (SSNA) — The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a school feeding program in South Sudan, saying the program is needed as the young…

Health

President Kiir Backs “Zero Malaria Campaign”

1 year ago

Health, News, South Sudan, Top Stories

President Salva Kiir. Photo: South Sudan Presidential Press Unit Juba, January 18, 2023 (SSNA) — South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has endorsed the “Zero Malaria Campaign” spearheaded by the Ministry…

WHO distributes medical kits to partners in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State

1 year ago

Breaking News, Health, News, Top Stories

Photo: WHO Juba, October 31, 2022 (SSNA) — The World Health Organization( WHO) says it has distributed at least 21 medical emergency kits to health cluster partners carrying out healthcare…

Business

Egypt to hold industrial products exhibition in Juba next year

3 years ago

Business, News, South Sudan, World

Chairman of the Egyptian Chemical Industries Export Council Khaled Abul Makarem. Photo: Getty Images/File Juba, December 27, 2020 (SSNA) — Egypt is set to hold an exhibition of Egyptian products…

South Sudan lacks adequate port as Africa become fast-growing grain import market

5 years ago

Business, News, South Sudan

Scientist say whole grain is good for health. Photo: aarp.org/Getty Image Juba, February 16, 2019 (SSNA) — Africa is rapidly becoming one of the world fast-growing grain importer as some…

Travel

CDC recommends “avoiding all travel” to South Sudan over Coronavirus

3 years ago

Health, News, Travel

“Passengers from an international flight are given a temperature screening at Juba International Airport in Juba…on January 31, 2020.” Photo: AFP Juba, December 27, 2020 (SSNA) — The United States-based…

Founder of ‘African Food Map’ once lived in South Sudan

5 years ago

Culture, News, South Sudan, Travel

Photo: iol.co.za Juba, February 16, 2019 (SSNA) –– In a recently featured article in South Africa, a woman named Tuleka Prah – a chief, was named as one of the…

Opinion

The actions are right if they promote happiness of all people, and they are wrong if they promote unhappiness of all people in society

February 12, 2024

Articles, Columnists, Opinion

Peter Reat Gatkuoth. Photo: File “Actions are right insofar if they promote the happiness; and they are wrong insofar if they promote unhappiness of all people in society.” By Peter…

Justifying Dictatorship in South Sudan: A Case Against the East African Community

December 4, 2023

Analyses, Articles, Opinion, South Sudan

EAC leaders at the 23rd Heads of State Summit in Arusha, Tanzania. Photo: File By Duop Chak Wuol December 4, 2023 (SSNA) — The East African Community (EAC) has recently…

Maintain Tyranny or Die: Salva Kiir’s Devious Peace Strategy

November 3, 2023

Analyses, Articles, Opinion, South Sudan

President Salva Kiir. Photo: AFP/File By Duop Chak Wuol November 3, 2023 (SSNA) — Soon after the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) was formed in February 2020, the…

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