TEHRAN, Jun 20 -South Sudanese lawmakers stormed out of a budget presentation for the 2019/20 financial year by the finance minister on Thursday, with one citing frustrations over non-payment of salaries of civil servants and soldiers.
TEHRAN, Apr 21 - South Sudan's opposition is calling for a six-month extension to implement next steps in a fragile peace deal as a major deadline approaches next month to form a power-sharing government between the president and his longtime rival.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - South Sudan's oil economy should be examined by the U.N. Human Rights Council for evidence that oil interests are responsible for war crimes, a member of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 - A military court on Monday began hearing the trial of an army general charged with treason for allegedly plotting a rebellion against President Salva Kiir's government.
TEHRAN, October 07 - Prisoners rioted and seized weapons at a detention centre in South Sudan's capital Juba early on Sunday, a security source and local residents said.
TEHRAN, October 07 -Prisoners at a detention center in South Sudan’s capital Juba staged a riot early on Sunday, seizing from a storeroom and triggering a stand off with guards, a security source and residents in the area said.
TEHRAN, September 25 - A South Sudanese doctor who runs an overcrowded hospital with a dimly-lit surgical theatre and no regular supply of general anaesthesia on Tuesday won the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen award.
TEHRAN, September 19 - A rights group on Wednesday accused the government of South Sudan and its allied militias of carrying out "war crimes" of "staggering brutality" during an offensive earlier this year.
TEHRAN, September 08 - At least six people died in South Sudan on Sunday when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, an eye witness said.
TEHRAN, July 12 - South Sudan's parliament voted on Thursday to extend President Salva Kiir's term in office until 2021, a move likely to undermine peace talks as opposition groups have said the change would be illegal.
TEHRAN, July 10 -At least 232 civilians were killed and 120 women and girls raped in attacks by South Sudan government troops and aligned forces in opposition-held villages, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, July 09 - South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, has canceled Independence Day celebrations for the third year in a row as its devastating civil war grinds on.
TEHRAN, July 08 - South Sudan’s warring parties have agreed to a power-sharing agreement according to which rebel leader Riek Machar will be reinstated as vice president.
TEHRAN, June 25 -A new round of peace talks is set to start in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, with the aim of ending the bloody civil war gripping neighboring South Sudan for more than four years.
TEHRAN, April 26 - Ten aid workers have gone missing in South Sudan's Yei town in unclear circumstances, a U.N. official said on Thursday, the latest incident involving relief staff in the country.
TEHRAN, April 25 - South Sudan President Salva Kiir has rejected opposition calls for him to resign as part of efforts to end a civil war, accusing anti-government groups of making "unreasonable demands" in peace talks.
TEHRAN, February 26 - One year after South Sudan briefly declared a famine, more than half of the people in the world’s youngest nation face extreme hunger amid civil war and famine could return, a new report says.
TEHRAN, February 26 -One year after South Sudan briefly declared a famine, more than half of the people in the world’s youngest nation face extreme hunger amid civil war and famine could return, a new report says.
TEHRAN, February 24 -U.N. investigators said on Friday they had identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.