[ISS] Tensions are once again rising among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, along with the water in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The annual rainy season is fast approaching. Ethiopia will almost certainly undertake a second filling of the 74 billion cubic metre capacity reservoir if there is no prior agreement otherwise among the three disputants.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA(FBC) – Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations (UN), Taye Atskeselassie has recently addressed the Security Council Briefing on United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

[VOA] Rumbek — Authorities in the capital of South Sudan’s Lakes State detained close to two dozen people including police officers and priests on Tuesday, a day after armed assailants shot Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare on the grounds of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek.

[ISS] A year into South Sudan’s transitional government of national unity, there has been little progress in bringing peace and stability to the country. Despite renewed political commitment to the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan reports ‘staggering’ levels of violence across the country.

[Nation] Juba,

[Cameroon Tribune] For more than five years now Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been seeking ways of putting in place an acceptable strategy on the filing and management of the dam.

[UNFPA] Up-to-date and reliable national data on population is critical for evidence-based planning and decision-making to bring progress and sustainable development in South Sudan, according to Vice President James Wani Igga.

[Nation] Juba — Sports officials in South Sudan have condemned a government minister’s decision to pull his wife from a football team in the middle of match.

[Nation] The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) has blasted a government minister for disrupting a National Women’s League game demanding the removal of his footballer wife

[VOA] Juba, South Sudan — South Sudan health officials have stopped administering 60,000 doses of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine that are past the expiration date but still have a shelf life of at least six months, according to the drugmaker and the World Health Organization.