MTN South Sudan launches 21 Days of Y’ello Care Campaign

Government officials, MTN Staff and the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp settlement posed for photo after launch of campaign in Juba on Monday (Photo by courtesy) JUBA — MTN South Sudan on Monday launched its annual 21 Days of Y’ello Care campaign, …

South Sudan warns against rampant illegal logging

Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Josephine Napwon Cosmos JUBA — The South Sudan government on Monday warned that stern action would be taken against those illegally cutting forest trees in Central Equatoria State. This followed a meeting over the …

Civilian casualties mount in South Sudan amid fighting between army and local militias

Sudan UN Aid Convoy Heading for Darfur Attacked: Many Killed

Sudan UN Aid Convoy Heading for Darfur Attacked: Many Killed Kanako Mita and Noriko Watanabe Modern Tokyo Times The Secretary-General António Guterres of the United Nations (UN) recently expressed his alarm at the growing menace of drone attacks against …

Sudan: Collapse of a forgotten country

There are some crises that effortlessly make their way to headlines and those that, despite everything, mire into silence. Sudan’s crisis falls into the latter category as more than two years of civil war, 13 million displaced people, widespread famine, …

Displacement, cholera drive up humanitarian needs in Sudan: UN

UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Conflict-related displacement of people and the spread of cholera continue to increase humanitarian needs across Sudan, said a UN spokesman on Wednesday. Nearly 9,700 people in Khartoum state alone were recently displaced …

Bol Mel’s Rise to Power: A Political Transformation in South Sudan

By Morris Kuol Yoll, Alberta, Canada Tuesday, 03 June 2025 (PW) — South Sudan’s political landscape has undergone significant shifts, with Bol Mel’s rapid rise sparking intense debate. His appointment as First Vice President by President Salva Kiir, along …

Darfur: bearing the brunt of over two years of civil war in Sudan

JOHANNESBURG — The food that a United Nations convoy was taking to the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher would have been the first humanitarian aid desperate families there had received in over a year. But they never got it. The 15-truck convoy was on …

RSF attack on Sudan displacement camp in Darfur kills 14

Shelling by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 14 people Wednesday in a famine-hit displacement camp in the Darfur region, volunteer rescuers said. The attack hit a market and residential areas of the Abu Shouk camp, …

Warning as Sudan 'stares into humanitarian abyss' - with direct impact on UK

War-torn Sudan is “staring into a humanitarian abyss” as millions of children increasingly face violence, extreme hunger and disease, a report has found. Sudan is currently in the midst of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis as a result of a civil war …