WFP officials warn that unless immediate, large-scale assistance is mobilized, communities in conflict-affected areas of ...

According to a statement issued by the WFP, these distributions mark the first access in over four months to deliver life-saving food and nutrition assistance to more than 40,000 people facing ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday sacked his Defense Chief Gen. Paul Nang Majok and appointed Gen. Dau ...

Fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State is pushing people into famine, according to the United Nations food agency.

The continuous presence of multiple checkpoints along the River Nile between the national capital, Juba, and the troubled ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, where surging conflict since March has forced ...

Cairo has never asked the Upper Nile countries to forego deriving optimal benefit from the river’s waters, from which Egypt receives only the surplus after they have used it, as has been the ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

People in 11 of 13 counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state now face emergency levels of hunger, the World Food Program, the U.N. Children’s Fund and the Food and Agriculture Organization ...

ON A PLANE OVER UPPER NILE STATE, South Sudan (AP) — Swooping low over the banks of a Nile River tributary, an aid flight run by retired American military officers released a stream of food ...

A Fogbow aid plane is loaded at an airport in Juba, South Sudan, on Monday, June 9, 2025, before conducting airdrops of food in the Upper Nile region. (AP Photo/ Florence Miettaux) ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in a conflict-stricken part of South Sudan. People in 11 of 13 counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile ...