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MTN Opens Digital Hub in South Sudan IDP Camp
News Ghana
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June 21, 2025
MTN South Sudan has established a technology center at Juba’s Mangateen camp for displaced persons, providing internet access, computers and solar power to underserved residents. The initiative forms part of the company’s annual #21DaysOfYelloCare...
AI Blind Spot: Local languages fuel hate speech in South Sudan
Eye Radio
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June 20, 2025
Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 6 hours ago Eva Yayi Mawa, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Go Girl ICT Initiative - Courtesy JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – In an increasingly digital world, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are...
Watchdog calls for global help to avert famine in South Sudan
Eye Radio
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June 20, 2025
Author: Lasuba Memo | Published: 5 hours ago Women line up at relief food distribution center in GPAA. (Photo: Care South Sudan). A Human Rights Watch activist has warned that South Sudan is on the brink of a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe as...
Charity savings groups support people forcibly displaced in South Sudan
Church Times
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June 19, 2025
AN ANGLICAN microfinance charity, Five Talents, has published new research on its work to support people forcibly displaced in South Sudan, to coincide with World Refugee Day on Friday. Savings Groups and Displaced People in South Sudan: A fresh...
World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
UN News
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June 19, 2025
Their latest data shows that the outlook for international investment this year “is negative”, a sharp course correction from January, when “modest” growth seemed possible. The reasons for this range from trade tensions and tariffs whose main...
Heavy taxes, illegal checkpoints pinch South Sudan farmers, amid food crisis
Number One Citizen Daily
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June 19, 2025
By Kei Emmanuel Duku Across South Sudan, farmers are overburdened with multiple taxes and illegal checkpoints, making agricultural inputs costly for food production in the country. Farmers are appealing to the government to enforce long-standing...
South Sudan, CNPC strengthen partnership to increase oil output
Eye Radio
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June 16, 2025
Author: Obaj Okuj | Published: 9 minutes ago Oil pipeline in Paloch, Upper Nile State - photo: Courtesy The Ministry of Petroleum is planning to increase oil production in South Sudan by strengthening its cooperation with the China National...
Zimbabwe among most targeted in cyber attacks
Bulawayo 24 News
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June 27, 2025
Zimbabwe is increasingly becoming a hotspot for cyberattacks, with experts warning of rising threats to data security and urging urgent action to strengthen the country's digital defences. Speaking at the Computer Society of Zimbabwe's Winter...
South Sudan and China deepen technical cooperation in oil sector
The City Review
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June 16, 2025
Chinese oil company CNPC reaffirmed its dedication to South Sudan’s petroleum sector and expressed readiness to deploy both resources and modern technology in alignment with the country’s development goals. By Aguok Chok China has long played a...
Juba secures over $300k to host regional health conference
Sudans Post
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June 20, 2025
A digital banner of the 7th East Africa Health Scientific Conference held in Tanzania. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – South Sudan has announced that it has secured US$385,000 to fund the 10th East Africa Health Scientific Conference scheduled for...
Opinion| The manufactured cash crisis bleeding South Sudan
Radio Tamazuj
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June 16, 2025
This fact is clear: South Sudan is not at war with nature. There has been no natural disaster except flooding in some parts of the country. There have been no earthquakes shaking the soil and no locusts descending upon the fields. In spite of...
Liberia Named on Proposed U.S. List of Countries for Third-Country Deportations as Funding is Cut for Global Vaccine Program
Front Page Africa
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June 27, 2025
Immigrants looking out the windows of a plane after arriving in Costa Rica on a deportation flight from the United States in February. Costa Rica took 200 deportees in February, including citizens of China, India and Nepal. Credit: Reuters...
Updated: Gov’t secures $385,000 for regional health conference in Juba
Eye Radio
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June 20, 2025
Author: Madrama James | Published: 7 hours ago Beny Gideon, the Undersecretary at the Ministry of East African Affairs, during a press conference in Juba, Friday, June 20, 2025 - Credit: Madrama James/Eye Radio Juba, South Sudan (Eye Radio) –...
South Sudan loses 5000kg of gold to UAE through Uganda annually
Sudans Post
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June 13, 2025
A South Sudanese worker holds a speck of gold in Nanakanak in Greater Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria state, South Sudan, on May 8, 2013. [Photo: Getty Images]JUBA – At least 5000 kg (five metric tonnes) of gold produced by artisanal miners in South...
Vietnamese peacekeeping force discusses sexual violence prevention
People's Army Newspaper
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During the exchange, experts from the U.K. share knowledge and practical experience on CRSV with the Level-2 Field Hospital (L2FH) Rotation 7 and Engineer Company Rotation 4 before their deployment to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations....
America’s most unwanted and the urgent cable that reveals where Trump wants them to go
The Age
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June 27, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size United States diplomats in several overseas missions received an urgent cable from Washington...
Beyond Politics: Could South Sudan Thrive with a Technocratic Government?
PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd
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June 14, 2025
By Tito Tong John, Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, 14 June 2025 (PW) – It all started back at Saint Josephine Bakhita Minor Seminary of Catholic diocese of Rumbek, under the lulu trees of St Comboni’s Secondary School in Mapuordit, Yirol West County,...
From Gaza to South Sudan, private firms deliver aid and face questions
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Aaron Ross JUBA (Reuters) -Fifty-kilo sacks of food hurtled out the open hatch of the cargo plane, scattering in the wind on their 1,000-foot descent to the northeastern flatlands of South Sudan. For the past three weeks, an American company...
Revision Of The Implementation Plan For The International Peace Cooperation Assignments In South Sudan
MENAFN
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June 13, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo At cabinet meeting on June 13, 2025, the Government of Japan decided to revise the Implementation Plan for the International Peace Cooperation Assignments in South Sudan to extend its period, in...
South Sudan at the verge of fully controlling her airspace
The City Review
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June 9, 2025
Since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan has faced major limitations in managing her own airspace By Emmanuel Mandella In a move set to scale South Sudan’s aviation sovereignty, the government on Saturday announced that they were...