• Experts say that a halt in oil production could escalate already acute levels of violence and insecurity in South Sudan.
  • U.S. Embassy lauds South Sudan Basketball on warm-up performance. 22-07-2024 | 16:08. South Sudanese refugees accuse Sudan army of rights violations.
  • South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, following 98.83% support for independence in a January 2011 referendum.
  • South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011 as the outcome of a 2005 agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
  • South Sudan mulls total oil shutdown after deadlock with Sudan. SIHA network reports 14 pregnancies among 75 rape cases in central Sudan.
  • The White Nile passes through South Sudan from south to north, and the republic’s capital and largest city Juba is situated by this river.
  • Within the small town of Renk in South Sudan, a rapidly growing refugee population faces desperate shortages of water, food and shelter.
  • South Sudan continues to be on the frontline of today’s climate crisis and has been heavily impacted by flooding and food insecurity.
  • These projections say that the population of South Sudan will be 13,610,007 in 2020, 17,254,367 in 2030, 21,189,205 in 2040 and 25,366,221 in 2050.
  • The World Bank Group (WBG) has been engaged in South Sudan since the creation of the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan in 2005.