[DW] The country’s Foreign Ministry dismissed rumors spreading on social media that President Salva Kiir had passed away.

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[HRW] Amid Renewed Fighting, Enforcement Needs to be Bolstered

[HRW] Hold Abusers Accountable in Fair Credible Trials

[Agenzia Fides] Tambura — A new act of violence has shaken the parish of St. Mary Help of Christians, in Tombura County, Western Equatoria State, one of the ten states of South Sudan. According to local media reports, Paul Tamania, a young coordinator of the Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CODEP), was shot dead on Wednesday, May 8, inside the parish premises. CODEP is an organization born within the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio.

[ENA] AUMISS, IGAD, UNMISS and RJMEC (the Quartet) call on South Sudan’s leaders to cease hostilities and urgently resume dialogue to progress R-ARCSS implementation deterioration of the political and security situation across South Sudan.

[UN News] The Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for another year, as the world’s youngest nation teeters on the brink of renewed conflict.

[Africa Regional Media Hub] Ambassador Dorothy SheaActing U.S. RepresentativeNew York, New YorkMay 8, 2025

[WFP] Juba — More than 60,000 malnourished children in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state are at risk of plunging deeper into malnutrition as treatment supplies run critically low and resupply efforts are hampered, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today. Intensified fighting along the White Nile river has meant no humanitarian supplies have reached the area in almost a month. The river is the main humanitarian supply corridor into Upper Nile.

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