When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental response to mpox with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Sudan has been engulfed in a devastating war that has crippled its health system and displaced millions. The conflict that erupted in April, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy ...

If surging tensions between South Sudan’s president and first vice president are not addressed on time, the country risks returning to 'full-scale civil war,' says analyst Edmund Yakani 'The ...

Mounting tension in South Sudan leads to clashes as power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar unravels. South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, left, and Vice ...

South Sudan's government has denied earlier reports that Uganda had deployed special forces to its capital, Juba. Uganda's military chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said the soldiers had gone to the ...

Mogadishu — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud expressed Somalia's "full solidarity" with the people of South Sudan on Sunday, as political tensions escalated in the neighboring country ...

The United States ordered the immediate departure of non-emergency personnel from the capital of South Sudan, citing an increase in crime, kidnapping and armed conflict, the Department of State ...

US Orders Its Non-Emergency Personnel to Leave South Sudan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has ordered its non-emergency government personnel in South Sudan to leave the country because of ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — A crew member was killed and two others were injured when a United Nations helicopter on an evacuation mission in a remote part of South Sudan was attacked on Friday ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

The UN Mission in South Sudan condemned the attack on its personnel as a potential war crime. South Sudan President Salva Kiir urged citizens to remain calm and assured them that the country would not ...