South Sudan

The White House says U.S. citizens will not be allowed to return directly home aboard commercial flights from the Congo due to the growing threat of Ebola.

Roger Kamba, Minister of Public Health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), complained on Friday that travel restrictions against his country due to the Ebola outbreak are “discriminatory” and cannot be justified by science or medicine.

Canada and the Bahamas on Tuesday announced temporary travel bans on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda, and South Sudan due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) and World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Friday confirmed an outbreak in Ethiopia of the lethal Marburg virus, a pathogen with symptoms similar to the infamous Ebola virus, but even more deadly and difficult to treat.

A group funded by Alexander and George Soros’s network of left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is behind a lawsuit that is now preventing President Donald Trump from deporting violent criminal illegal aliens to South Sudan.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a federal judge’s court order blocking the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens to South Sudan will cause “significant and irreparable harm to United States foreign policy.” 

DHS has released detailed rap sheets of eight illegal aliens deported to South Sudan this week, but whose deportations have been halted.

A federal judge in Massachusetts is denouncing the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to deport immigrant criminals and murderers to South Sudan.

The U.S. is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders under orders from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said the African nation’s government is “taking advantage of the United States.”

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the extension and redesignation of temporary amnesty status for nearly 300 nationals of South Sudan in the United States who would otherwise be illegal aliens.

South Sudan reported 27 people were killed in battles between cattle herders and insurrectionist militia fighters on Thursday, just one day before the scheduled arrival of Pope Francis during his tour of Africa.

Local media in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported on Wednesday, citing event organizers, that “about 2 million” people convened in the capital of Kinshasa that day to attend a Mass by Pope Francis.

A United Nations (U.N.) diplomatic representative of South Sudan successfully fled to his home country this week after he was arrested on August 21 for allegedly raping a woman in New York City but released the next day after invoking diplomatic immunity, the New York Post reported on Thursday.

Police officers in New York City arrested a United Nations (U.N.) diplomat from South Sudan on Sunday after he was accused of rape by a woman that day — but released him from custody Monday morning after he successfully claimed diplomatic immunity, the New York Post reported.

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis’ trip to two African nations, previously postponed due to health issues, has been definitively canceled and the Vatican Secretary of State will go in his place.

South Sudan is set to endure its “worst hunger crisis to date” in the coming months, Voice of America (VOA) quoted World Food Program (WFP) representative Marwa Awad as saying on Friday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is renewing and expanding temporary amnesty status for more than 3,400 Sudanese and South Sudanese nationals living in the United States. 

Islamist extremists raided the Christian community of Yinh Pabol in South Sudan, killing at least 28 residents and torching 57 houses in early January, the Barnabas Fund reported this week.

ROME — Pope Francis has denounced a road ambush in South Sudan that took the lives of two Catholic nuns Sunday morning along with three other victims.

South Sudan’s Health Ministry on Monday announced it will return 72,000 of the 132,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine it received from COVAX, the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) program for distributing vaccines to impoverished countries.

Having a child in this day and age may be a form of “environmental vandalism,” Vogue magazine UK suggests in a Monday article, with the author detailing her own struggles with having children who she “hopes” won’t destroy “future humanity.”

South Sudan President Salva Kiir condemned Monday’s non-fatal shooting of the Bishop-elect of Rumbek as a “shameful act of intimidation.”

Two gunmen broke into the home of Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare in Rumbek, South Sudan, early Monday, shooting him twice in the legs.

The Interior Ministry of Kenya announced Wednesday it would shut down two camps populated by over 400,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia and Sudan.

Pope Francis sent a Christmas message to South Sudan’s political leaders this week, inviting them to greater generosity and service of their people.

At least 57 workers with a United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in conflict-stricken South Sudan have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus since April, the organization’s top official confirmed on Friday

South Sudan’s first confirmed case of coronavirus infection was identified on Sunday as a 29-year-old Dutch woman who works for the United Nations. Local and U.N. officials said they were attempting to track down everyone she came in contact with during her five weeks in the country.

Recent developments in Niger and South Sudan could signal a turning point for preventing girls from being married off before they become adults in two countries with the highest prevalence rate of child marriage in the world, news outlets reported this week.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen extended a temporary amnesty status for nationals from South Sudan weeks after announcing a similar move for Sudanese, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and El Salvadorans living in the United States.

The much-feared spread of Ebola virus from rural regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to larger cities and across the border into neighboring countries may be coming to pass.

Contents: Ebola in DR Congo spreads southward to large cities; Uganda and South Sudan vaccinate health workers against Ebola

Contents: Latest South Sudan peace agreement appears close to collapse; Brief generational history of South Sudan and Dinka-Nuer clashes

More details have been revealed about a child bride from South Sudan who was sold through Facebook, which the social network only took action on two weeks after the auction post had been made. The girl, now 17, is reportedly the man’s ninth wife.

Facebook allowed a child bride to be sold to the highest bidder before the social network finally decided to take action against the post over two weeks later, according to charity organization Plan International, which called the Facebook auction “beyond belief.”

The nearly 400,000 fatalities linked to the nearly five-year-old civil war in South Sudan exceeds some estimates for the death toll from the slightly older conflict in Syria, according to a U.S. Department of State (DOS)-funded report released this week.

A South Sudanese man taken in by Australia as a child refugee has been stripped of Australian citizenship ahead of his deportation over a decade after the “violent and terrifying attack” on a 17-year-old girl.