[East African] Juba — South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit over the weekend asked his Finance and Economic Planning Minister Athian Diing to cancel a Sovereign Guarantee transaction worth $650 million.

[East African] Juba — At least 40 Afghans have entered South Sudan without following the required legal procedures according to the country’s immigration authorities.

[Vanguard] South Sudan is “ready to turn a new page” towards greater peace, development and prosperity, Vice-President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior said in her speech at the UN General Assembly on Friday.

[allAfrica] Welcome to allAfrica’s Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I’m Mantsadi Sepheka from allAfrica. And today our focus is South Sudan.Africa’s youngest independent state has been plagued by chronic instability since gaining its independence a decade ago. civil society groups have called on the country’s government to step down as South Sudan deals with what Amnesty International is calling a new wave of repression. Now in this wave of repression, authorities are targeti

[allAfrica] My name is Nandege and I am a peacemaker. I come from the village of Homiri in Chukudum county, South Sudan, where most of the population of some 150,000 people are subsistence farmers, just like my mother. When I was 24, I brokered peace between two communities who had fought each other for decades over cattle thefts that often turned violent, to the extent that people were killed. It was destroying livelihoods and the communities.

[Nation] Security printing firm De La Rue may have paid bribes to South Sudan officials through a Kenyan bank, this is according to a report by a United Nations body, which detail many other suspicious transactions.

[Nation] South Sudanese women’s football team captain Amy Lasu has three beaded bracelets on her left hand; a black one bearing the name Lauya which belongs to her paternal grandfather Lauya Sururu Joja, and two others which have national flags of her “home” countries, South Sudan and Kenya.

[VOA] South Sudan’s Vice President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior is calling on the United Nations to lift its three-year-old arms embargo on South Sudan.

[HRW] Item 4 Enhanced Interactive Dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

[Shabait] Asmara, 23 September 2021- Mr. Yohannes Teklemicael, Eritrean Ambassador to South Sudan, met and held talks with Mr. Mayiik Ayii Deng, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Sudan, on strengthening bilateral relations and regional issues of interest to the two countries.