This week, South Sudan finalized ratification of the African Union’s Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol), ending ...

Grassroots organising, coalitions, and movement-building majorly contributed to South Sudan's independence in 2011 from Sudan, in which women and girls played a significant role.

South Sudan’s president has called for dialogue amid concerns that the country could relapse into a civil war due to the stalled peace talks, but the opposition had demanded for its members to be rele ...

FILE - Women holding national flags and peace banners await the arrival of Pope Francis at the St. Theresa Cathedral in Juba, South Sudan on Feb. 4, 2023. As South Sudan’s plans to hold its ...

JUBA, South Sudan — Pope Francis warned Saturday that South Sudan’s future depends on how it treats its women, as he highlighted their horrific plight in a country where sexual violence is ...

Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African ...

A federal judge in Washington is briefly blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after the Supreme Court permitted it to go forward ...

Pope Francis warned Saturday that South Sudan’s future depends on how it treats its women, as he highlighted their horrific plight in a country where sexual violence is rampant, child brides are ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Pope Francis warned Saturday that South Sudan's future depends on how it treats its women, as he highlighted their horrific ...