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[SNA] GENEVA, May 21, 2026 (SUNA) - Federal Minister of Health Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim held a meeting with South Sudan's Minister of Health, Dr. Luke Thompson Thoan, on Thursday in Geneva on the sidelines of the 79th session of the World Health Assembly, to discuss strengthening joint health cooperation between the two countries.

[MSF] Indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian structures - including bombing hospitals - forced recruitment, sexual violence, access constraints and shrinking humanitarian space are realities for people in South Sudan, as described by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in their report on escalating violence in the country, ''They Killed Them While We Were Running''. The report details that a total of 12 attacks on MSF staff and facilities left an estimated 762,000 people without access

[African Arguments] On May 9, 2026, the Sudanese newspaper Al-Sayha first broke the exclusive report alleging that Juba had issued an 'urgent' directive ordering the termination of Egyptian military activities in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. The report rapidly moved beyond Sudanese media circles and became a wider regional and international geopolitical story.

[RFI] Amine Benrachid arrived in France with nothing but the clothes on his back, having crossed the Mediterranean on a rubber dinghy and walked across the border on foot. Today, the Chadian-South Sudanese actor is sitting on the jury of the Citizenship Prize at Cannes, and is preparing to tell his own story on screen.

[Nile Post] The United States government has imposed travel restrictions on people coming from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan following the outbreak of Ebola in the region.

[African Arguments] South Sudan is approaching another decisive moment, but the country is still far from ready for credible elections in December 2026. Nearly two decades after the end of Sudan's civil war (1983-2005) and almost fifteen years after independence, the promise of democratic transition remains unfulfilled. Whether South Sudan can still move toward peace and accountable government depends on confronting political realities that leaders have long avoided.

[The New Humanitarian] Wunthou, South Sudan -- "They kept saying we had to go back to our country."

[Nile Post] President Salva Kiir Mayardit has arrived in Uganda ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, scheduled for Tuesday at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds.

[Nile Post] Senior leaders of ruling parties in Burundi and South Sudan this evening arrived at Entebbe International Airport ahead of President Museveni's seventh inauguration slated for Tuesday.

[Nile Post] The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the ruling party in neighboring South Sudan.

[MSF] Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been forced to permanently close our hospital in Lankien, Jonglei State, South Sudan, after it was bombarded on 3 February. Closing our hospital brings to an end 31 years of continuous medical support to a community which already has extremely limited access to healthcare. MSF calls on all warring parties to prevent attacks on medical facilities and personnel, and for an independent and impartial investigation into the attack.

[Leadership] Following the xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa, especially Nigerians, the global president of Ogoni Youths Development Initiative (OYDI), Comrade Imeabe Saviour Oscar, has cautioned against reprisal attacks.

[IPS] United Nations -- In 2026, the humanitarian situation in South Sudan has taken a considerable turn for the worse, with widespread food shortages, ongoing disruptions to food production systems, and rising rates of malnutrition affecting over half of the population. Compounded by the vast scale of needs and an overwhelming lack of access to basic services, humanitarian experts warn that nationwide levels of hunger are projected to worsen to catastrophic levels if urgent intervention is not secured.

[WFP] As conflict, flooding, displacement and economic shocks converge, millions of people across South Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Programme is racing to deliver food and nutrition assistance in hard-to-reach areas, but access and funding constraints threaten to leave families without support.

[UN News] Conflict and displacement are intensifying South Sudan's hunger crisis, with 7.8 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity while 2.2 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition, according to a joint statement on Tuesday from UN agencies.

[Unicef] Rome/New York -- Conflict and displacement drive worsening crisis, with risk of famine in hardest-hit areas; nearly 700,000 children in danger of severe and deadly malnutrition

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Two Kenyans are among 15 people who died after a small passenger plane crashed in South Sudan, authorities have confirmed.

[Agenzia Fides] Tombura Yambio -- From the heart of South Sudan, a nation still searching for the fullness of peace, the President of the Commission for the Promotion of Integral Human Development of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sudan and South Sudan (SSS-CBC), Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio, expressed gratitude for the recently concluded visit of Pope Leo XIV to the African continent.

[ACNS] The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) has intensified its peacebuilding and reconciliation work across the country as violence continues to rise sharply.

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