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The "shocking scale" of violence against women and girls in South Sudan is double the global average, a new study released Wednesday says.
Twenty-seven people have been killed when rebels attacked government forces in South Sudan, a local government official says.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has ordered troops to surround the house of the country’s former military chief of staff, Paul Malong, amid rising political tensions the country’s capital city.
South Sudanese rebel groups fought each other this week in a strategic area near the Ugandan border leaving at least three dead, rebels said.
The United Nations says attacks against aid workers are increasing in South Sudan.
The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million, the United Nations said on Thursday, a grim milestone for what has become the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis.
South Sudan’s rebels say they have retaken control of their stronghold town of Pagak near the border with Ethiopia from government forces.
Fifteen children have died in South Sudan after receiving contaminated measles vaccines that had not been properly refrigerated, and were mixed using the same syringe for four days.
The United Nations says at least 114 civilians were killed in and around the South Sudanese town of Yei by pro-government forces in the period from July 2016 to January 2017.
The United Nations has urged donor countries to raise their contributions to South Sudanese refugees, saying some USD 1.4 billion would be needed to help people out of famine inside and outside the war-torn country.