South Sudan

Louis Lobong, Eastern Equatoria State Governor. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – President Salva Kiir on Tuesday received a security update from Eastern Equatoria State Governor Louis Lobong following last month’s deadly raid on a National Security Service (NSS) base in Kapoeta South... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Colonel Mohamed Nagi Obeid. [Photo courtesy]KHARTOUM — A veteran commander with a career spanning both sides of Sudan’s long-running conflicts, Colonel Mohamed Nagi Obeid, is central to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) dominance of a strategic corridor linking the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Drones. [Photo via BBC]KADUGLI — Several senior Sudanese army officers were killed on Saturday and Monday when drones operated by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the town of Abugubaiha, security sources and residents said, widening the 18-month-old war... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Maj. Gen. Chaplain Khamis Edward, SSPDF Director of Child Protection. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – A senior South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) officer has defended the army’s human rights record, insisting that the military operates within both national and international legal... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
𝐉𝐔𝐁𝐀, 𝐎𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟏𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 —President Salva Kiir Mayardit was briefed on Tuesday by Governor Louis Lobong Lojore on the situation in Eastern Equatoria State as part of a wider security briefing. ‎ ‎Governor Lobong, in his report to the meeting,... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
By admin@juba
WAU, — At about 3 a.m. today, an SSPDF attack helicopter reportedly bombed areas of Jur River in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, in an apparent attempt to strike SPLA-IO bases. However, all the bombs landed in civilian-populated areas.... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
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Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, Spokesperson of SPLA-IO. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – The Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in-Opposition (SPLA-IO) has accused the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) of launching an aerial bombardment in parts of Jur River County in South Sudan’s Western... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Director General of Immigration, Major General Elia Kosta, stated the group was apprehended in two separate incidents in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, near the border with Sudan. According to Maj. Gen. Kosta, the first group of 14 Eritreans (13... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
The appointed leaders include the Minister of East African Community Affairs, Pieng Deng Kuol, Minister of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism, Denay Jock Chagor, Minister of Transport, Rizik Zachariah Hassan and the Deputy Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs, James Koang... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
A 1976 family photograph showing Dr. Siema Jack (bottom right, as a baby) with her mother and siblings in Khartoum. The image of her brother, Ziad Al-Jack (circled, center), was later cropped and falsely circulated online as a childhood photo... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
PHOTO: Colonel Michael Randrianirina and other members of the elite CAPSAT military unit, standing in front of the presidential palace after announcing they had taken power - Courtesy ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (Eye Radio) —Madagascar’s elite military unit seized power, announcing they... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Editor and Radio presenter at El Fasher Radio in North Darfur, Journalist Al-Nour Suleiman El FASHER – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned the killing of Al-Nour Suleiman, an editor and radio presenter at El-Fasher Radio in... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Author: Elsheikh Chol Ajeing | Published: 11 hours ago Signpost of Nasir County [Photo: Courtesy] The Commissioner of Nasir County in Upper Nile State is calling for an urgent humanitarian assessment to determine the scale of the crisis facing the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Author: Wol Mapal | Published: 12 hours ago South Sudan Delegation in Washington D.C, United States for the World Bank Group and IMF Annual Meetings. Courtesy: Bank of South Sudan. JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – The South Sudan delegation... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
A section of returnees arriving in Aweil through Abyei earlier this year. [Photo: Courtesy]RENK – More than 100 South Sudanese women have been deported from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, without their children, prompting a local South Sudanese official to impound the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
YAMBIO – The residents of Tambura County in Western Equatoria State have expressed outrage following the killing of three civilians in an ambush carried out by suspected SPLA-IO forces along the Tambura–Rii-Yubu road. According to eyewitnesses and local community leaders,... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Author: Obaj Okuj | Published: 2 hours ago Activist and political commentator Samuel Peter Oyay - courtesy photo The wife of detained South Sudanese political activist Samuel Peter Oyay says the family is still waiting for answers from authorities in... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Author: Madrama James | Published: 2 hours ago Akum David Sabahker, the Director of the National Payment System at the Bank of South Sudan speaks on Eye Radio Sunday Down Program on Monday Oct. 13, 2025 - Photo credit: Awan... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Author: Wol Mapal | Published: 3 hours ago Aerial view of Torit, the capital of Eastern Equatoria State | Credit | Courtesy TORIT, Eastern Equatoria (Eye Radio) — Local communities in Eastern Equatoria State have welcomed the constitutional review commission... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Governor Rabi Mujung Emmanuel of Central Equatoria State - Photo credit: Central Equatoria State Governor's Press Unit JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) — Central Equatoria State (CES) civil servants can expect timely payment, and state institutions are set to receive... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) — The governor of Central Equatoria State Rabi Mujung Emmanuel has directed the state ministry of finance and planning to enhance their efforts in revenue collection for affective operations of the government institutions and improve... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 3 hours ago National football team Bright Stars pose for photo before their match with Togo team on October 13, 2025 - credit: SSFF South Sudan’s national football team has wrapped up their 2026 FIFA... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
A section of returnees arriving in Aweil through Abyei earlier this year. [Photo: Courtesy]MAJOK-YITH-THIOU — Authorities in the border town of Majok-Yith-Thiou in Aweil East County of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Gahzal State say at least 300 spontaneous returnees... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
The map of South Sudan showing the country’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. [Photo: Courtesy]KUAJOK – A woman in a remote boma in Twic County of South Sudan’s Warrap State has died while giving birth due to excessive bleeding compounded... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Author: Elsheikh Chol Ajeing | Published: 6 hours ago Counties of Unity State Authorities in Mayendit County, Unity State, say cases of malaria have increased due to ongoing flooding that has submerged several health facilities. County Commissioner Marco Joung Magok... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Author: Elsheikh Chol Ajeing | Published: 6 hours ago Nasir County Commissioner addresses police personnel during a formal parade in Nasir town on Monday October 13, 2025. The gathering focused on key security objectives for the country - Courtesy Authorities... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Presiding Judge in Machar’s trial, Justice James Alala (L), sits alongside fellow judges during a swearing-in ceremony at the State House earlier this year. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – A legitimacy dispute has erupted over the Special Court handling the trial of... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-14
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, former Somali Prime Minister and new AU Special Representative to South Sudan and Head of the AU Liaison Office in Juba. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – The African Union (AU) has appointed former Somali Prime Minister Dr. Abdiweli... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Heartbreak at the border: Some of the hundreds of South Sudanese mothers forcibly deported from Sudan, stranded after being separated from their children. (📷 Courtesy) JODA, Upper Nile (Eye Radio) — A humanitarian crisis is unfolding at the southern border... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Heartbreak at the border: Some of the hundreds of South Sudanese mothers forcibly deported from Sudan, stranded after being separated from their children. (📷 Courtesy) JODA, Upper Nile (Eye Radio) — More than 100 South Sudanese women say they were forcibly... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
KHARTOUM – On October 10, two armed men entered the emergency room of Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum, a facility supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), accompanying a wounded patient. Inside, they threatened Ministry of Health staff, forcing them to... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Author: Lasuba Memo | Published: 10 hours ago Opening of the newly constructed water yard|Courtesy Aweil Centre County, Northern Bahr El Ghazal | October 13, 2025 — The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the German Development... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Author: Wol Mapal | Published: 11 hours ago El shabah children hospital is one of the health facilities supported by HEALTH Pooled Fund in South Sudan - credit | Charles Wote/Eye Radio - Nov. 6, 2021 Women leaders in Central... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Author: Wol Mapal | Published: 11 hours ago Bentiu IDPs Protest Machar Trial. Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bentiu, Unity State, stage a demonstration on Thursday, September 25, 2025, to protest the indictment and trial of suspended First Vice President... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Author: RFI | Published: 11 hours ago The evacuation followed an agreement with French president Emmanuel Macron. French authorities said they are not intervening in Madagascar’s internal crisis, which has rocked the country since 25 September. The unrest began over... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Journalist Michael Koma. [Photo courtesy]JUBA – Veteran South Sudanese journalist Michael Koma has died at the age of 50 from complications related to low blood sugar, his family said on Monday. Koma, a former secretary of the Union of Journalists... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Floods in Leer Couty, Unity State. [Photo by Sudans Post]LEER – At least 50,000 people have been displaced by severe flooding in Leer County of South Sudan’s Unity State, local authorities said, as heavy rains inundated farmlands and villages across... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Learners march with a banner on World Teachers’ Day. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – A member of the National Teachers’ Union of South Sudan, Garang Deng, has called on the government to improve teachers’ welfare and ensure the timely payment of their... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA – South Sudan’s escalating political crisis is driving renewed armed violence, compounding already dire human rights and humanitarian conditions, while heightening regional instability, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned today. Despite one decade of efforts by... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
By admin@juba
Nicholas Coghlan, Canada’s first resident ambassador to South Sudan. [Photo courtesy]JUBA – A former Canadian diplomat has warned that a new United Nations report detailing systemic corruption within South Sudan’s government could discourage international donors and undermine ongoing humanitarian and... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Author: Irene Jackson | Published: 2 hours ago Former national women’s team manager, Victoria Nasera, has been appointed to the FIFA Women’s Football Development Committee - courtesy photo Former national women’s team manager, Victoria Nasera, has been appointed to the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Members of UN Human Rights Commission on South Sudan addresses journalists at the UN House in Juba on Friday, February 16, 2024. [Photo by Sudans Post]ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA – A U.N. rights commission warned on Monday that South Sudan’s worsening political... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
Western Equatoria State Deputy Governor Joseph Marona speaks during launch of Azande Kingdom Cultural Festival in Yambio on Saturday, October 11, 2025. [Photo by Sudans Post]YAMBIO – The government of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State (WES) has issued a call... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-13
Source: Sudans Post
By Sudans Post
JUBA — The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces ordered members of the Red Belt Movement to join the army and turn over personal and support weapons, a statement seen by Thejubamirror News Desk said. The order, issued by South Sudan... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-12
By admin@juba
By Dr. Sunday de John I don’t give a damn. Let me state this clearly: many leaders have been appointed, and President Salva Kiir Mayardit has publicly acknowledged that he is searching for a solution; specifically, a solution to the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-11
By admin@juba
By  Hon  Mogga Charles  Guya South Sudan, a nation born out of struggle and immense sacrifice, continues to face challenges that threaten the foundation of its future: its youth. Across towns, villages, and cities, the pain of losing young people... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-11
By admin@juba
By an undercover correspondent in Juba in collaboration with Bol Mel associates In the glare of public eye, Bol Mel always put on a façade of an innocent, hardworking and loyal young man who has won the trust of President... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-11
By admin@juba
‎The $250 million construction project under the man in question at the VIP Protection Unit of J1 in South Sudan has left many speechless. It was meant to secure the highest office in the land. Instead, it became a monument... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-10
By admin@juba
‎South Sudan’s economy didn’t collapse on its own. It was pushed, drained, and mishandled at the hands of those who were supposed to protect it. Among the key figures who must be held responsible are former First Undersecretaries of the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-09
By admin@juba
Juba, October 9, 2025 — President Salva Kiir Mayardit has called on the newly appointed Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Dr. Paul Nang Majok, to champion reforms and professionalism within the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF). Speaking during the... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-09
By admin@juba
JUBA, The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) has denounced what it calls politically and tribally motivated “court proceedings” in Juba against First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and other party leaders, according to a statement seen by... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-07
By admin@juba
By Dr. Sunday de John Last week, precisely, October 4th, 2025, marks a moment that carried great spiritual and national significance. Hon. Adut Salva Kiir Mayardit, the Senior Presidential Envoy for Special Programmes, visited the Stone International Church and Generation... Read more
Published on: 2025-10-06
By admin@juba