Rwanda targets full electricity access by 2030, accelerates Solar push

Author: Koang Pal Chang | Published: 11 hours ago Rwanda plans $16 billion in solar investments to achieve universal electricity access by 2030, despite financing and policy barriers. [Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images] According to...

UK, Norway warn S. Sudan peace has ‘reversed,’ demand dialogue

“It is with deep regret that now, seven months further on, even the limited progress that had been made has been reversed,” Ashly stated. “Instead, we are witnessing repeated and consistent breaches of the peace agreement.” The joint statement...

Nearly half a million displaced in South Sudan in 2025, says UN official

Author: Madrama James | Published: 11 hours ago Families displaced by flooding in Fangak County of Jonglei State cram themselves on heaps of papyrus leaves as the entire area sinks underwater. (-) Over 497,000 people have been displaced across the...

South Sudan peace deal in “man-made” collapse, UN says

A senior United Nations official on Tuesday accused South Sudan’s leaders of creating a “man-made” political crisis that has shattered the 2018 peace agreement, fueled a surge in civilian casualties, and pushed the world’s youngest nation toward a...

Aid cuts risk pushing 13.7m people into extreme hunger: WFP

Agence France-Presse . Rome, Italy 15 October, 2025, 22:52 The UN’s World Food Programme warned Wednesday that ‘staggering’ cuts to its funding risked pushing up to 13.7 million people currently receiving food aid into ‘emergency’ levels of hunger...

14 soldiers killed as South Sudan’s peace forces clash in Abyei

Map of the Abyei region. [Photo courtesy]JUBA – Fourteen soldiers were killed and at least 14 others wounded after fighting broke out between South Sudan’s unified forces in the disputed Abyei region over a love triangle, a military spokesman said...

Juba City Council launches construction of largest shopping mall

Author: Wol Mapal | Published: 2 hours ago Ongoing construction of Juba Mall - Photo credit: Juba City Council The Second Deputy Mayor of Juba City Council, Thiik Thiik Mayardit, has announced the start of construction of what is expected to be...

Kenya Feels Squeeze of China’s Railway Debt Trap

Kenyans called it the “railway to nowhere” years before the phrase took on a literal meaning. Today, the end of the line for the vaunted Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) sits unused in a cornfield in the Rift Valley, about 468 kilometers...

Irish Loreto Sister Receives Honorary Doctorate for Work With Girls in South Sudan Crisis

St. Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland, has conferred an honorary doctorate to Sister Orla Treacy, whose work spanning 19 years in South Sudan has transformed the lives of hundreds of girls in the war-torn east African nation. In...

14 soldiers killed as "love triangle" turns deadly in South Sudan

At least 14 soldiers were killed and several others injured in South Sudan after a suspected "love triangle" dispute led to a deadly shootout, the army said on Wednesday. A clash between members of the Unified VIP Protection Force, which comprises...

At least 14 soldiers killed in South Sudan as 'love triangle' turns bloody

[AFP] At least 14 soldiers were killed and several others injured in South Sudan after a suspected "love triangle" dispute led to a deadly shootout, the army said on Wednesday. A clash between members of the Unified VIP Protection Force, which...

Preview: South Sudan vs Senegal - prediction, team news, lineups

Sports Mole previews Friday's World Cup Qualifying - Africa clash between South Sudan and Senegal, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. Bottom-placed South Sudan will face group leaders Senegal at the Juba National Stadium on...

South Sudan foreign minister returns from Sudan after talks

South Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Monday Semaya Kumba, returned to Juba on Monday after what he described as a “successful, promising, and important” visit to Sudan, where the two nations agreed to strengthen security and economic ties. South Sudan...

UN’s World Food Programme warns donor cuts are pushing millions more into hunger

SEVERE funding cuts from the United Nations's top donors could see nearly 14 million people forced into emergency levels of hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. The WFP, traditionally the UN’s best funded agency, said in a new...

UN Funding Crisis and Credibility Gap Threaten Humanitarian Efforts in Conflict Zones

Wed 15 Oct 2025 | 11:21 PM As multiple humanitarian crises deepen across the developing world, attention is turning to two increasingly critical barriers: chronic underfunding and a growing trust deficit facing international institutions. In...

South Sudan rejects appointment of Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury

Rt. Rev’d Dame Sarah Mullally, the new Archbishop of Canterbury. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – The head of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, Archbishop Justin Badi Arama, has expressed dismay over the appointment of the Rt. Rev’d Dame Sarah Mullally...

West Virginia Vincent Moscarelli Memorial Breeders' Classic Stakes: Tricks R for Juba

Opinion| What will happen to South Sudan if Gen. Kiir dies in power?

Beyond the daily struggles for survival, a deeper existential fear looms over South Sudan, a fear shared by regional powers whose stability is inextricably linked to its own: the carnage his sudden departure could trigger. The question is not if...

“No alternative”: UN insists peace deal is South Sudan’s only path

Author: Koang Pal Chang | Published: 4 hours ago Anita Kiki Gbeho, Officer in Charge, SRSG, and Deputy Special Representative in South Sudan - Courtesy File Photo Anita Kiki Gbeho, the Officer in Charge and Deputy Special Representative of the UN...

SOUTH SUDAN: Sixth Year Of Flooding Deepens One Of World’s Worst Hunger Crises

The sixth year of flooding in South Sudan combined with aid cuts is exacerbating one of the world’s worst hunger crises with newly arrived refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan resorting to foraging for food and eating leaves to survive, Save the...