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[Agenzia Fides] Juba -- "The political stalemate between the various parties in South Sudan must be resolved before it is too late," said George Owinow, President of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC), the body responsible for monitoring the implementation of the peace agreements in South Sudan, on October 7.

[CPJ] Washington, D.C. -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the United Arab Emirates to explain the detention of South Sudanese freelance commentator Samuel Peter Oyay, who was arrested at his home in Dubai on September 30, and to immediately disclose his whereabouts.

[SAnews.gov.za] Deputy President Paul Mashatile will undertake a working visit to Juba, South Sudan, on Thursday and Friday this week, in his role as the Presidential Special Envoy to South Sudan.

[SNA] Port Sudan, October 6, 2025 (SUNA) - Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of South Sudan, Ambassador Mandi Samaya Kent Komiya, concluded Monay a three-day official visit to the Republic of Sudan, during which a joint statement was issued and read by Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Mohy-Eddin Salim Ahmed, and his South Sudanese counterpart.

[ISS] President Salva Kiir has repeatedly flouted the peace deal and now seems to be putting a succession plan into action.

[The Conversation Africa] Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, met with then US president Barack Obama at the White House in 2011 to discuss the future of the newly independent state.

[DW] South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar is on trial for charges that include murder and treason, sparking fears of renewed civil war and political strife. Civil society groups are calling for transparency and oversight.

[Shabelle] Kismaayo -- Jubbaland state security forces, particularly the Third Battalion of the Darawiish Brigade, have carried out a large-scale, three-pronged military operation targeting Al-Shabaab hideouts in the Lower Juba region, officials said Tuesday.

[allAfrica] Geneva -- A new report on South Sudan rebukes the country's political elites for systemic government corruption and brazen predation, and the UN Human Rights Commission says it must be urgently addressed.

[The New Humanitarian] Juba -- "What we want is for the community to live peacefully."

[UN News] In South Sudan, "systemic government corruption" and "brazen predation" on the part of political elites have created a human rights crisis that must be urgently addressed, the UN Commission on Human Rights in the country said in a new report issued on Tuesday.

[United Nations Human Rights Council] NAIROBI/GENEVA, 16 September 2025 - Systemic government corruption and brazen predation by South Sudan's political elites have unleashed an immense human rights crisis that must be urgently addressed, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said in its latest report issued today.

[ISS] The UN mission's mandate was eventually renewed, but concerns about a US retreat from peace support operations abound.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Justice Minister Indicts Riek Machar, Others After 6 Months of Arbitrary Detention

[UN News] Over 100,000 people in South Sudan have been displaced by what the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has called "new deadly floods."

[DW] Riek Machar has been under house arrest since March, and the latest charges threaten the fragile power-sharing agreement with President Salva Kiir.

[Nigeria Health Watch] A group of mothers gather to share learnings on how their recently planted gardens are performing in the remote villages of Panyagara, in Uganda's northeastern district of Kotido. "We all planted in anticipation of rain, and I want us to advise each other on how we can manage the flooding," Agness Lomela, the group leader stated as she opens the afternoon meeting.

[Crisis Group] South Sudan is at risk of major upheaval. President Salva Kiir's dismantling of the 2018 peace deal that ended the civil war and his recent move to elevate political newcomer Benjamin Bol Mel, potentially as his successor, have pushed the country into new turmoil. With the economy in disarray, a severe humanitarian crisis and escalating violence in Equatoria and Upper Nile regions, the future of the world's youngest country is at stake.

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