South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, ...

South Sudan is projected to experience universal poverty in 2025, driven by a combination of factors such as a decline in oil production and external shocks, the World Bank said in a report released ...

Global trade in gum arabic centres on the African nation – and proceeds bankroll conflict between the army and paramilitary ...

Since exploration began in the upper Paleozoic reservoirs of the Wind River, Bighorn and Powder River basins in the 1920s, the area has produced some 4 billion bbl of oil, equivalent to about six ...

South Sudan’s economy will contract by about 30% in the fiscal year ending June, but could rebound after the resumption of ...

Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil ...

Tensions are spiraling in South Sudan amid escalating militia violence in Upper Nile state in the east of the country, cabinet reshuffles, and the arrests of several senior officials in the capital, ...

For now, it’s mostly only available for purchase online. Unlike neighboring Ethiopia or Uganda, oil-rich South Sudan has never been known as a coffee-producing nation. Its British colonizers ...

South Sudan, Africa’s youngest nation and heavily reliant on oil for over 90 per cent of its revenue, has seen its primary export stream severely disrupted for the past year. Oil shipments via ...

South Sudan's economy contracted by 24.5 per cent last year, mainly due to the collapse in oil exports and its knock-on effects, according to an estimate by Andreu Paddack, sub-Saharan Africa ...