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South Sudan

Family portrait of the Mabior family.

Daughter of South Sudanese freedom fighters reflects on family and country

Arts, Culture & Media

Concerned that her mother’s legacy would be forgotten, filmmaker Akuol de Mabior set out to create a new documentary called “No Simple Way Home.” It tells the story of Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior’s contributions to the liberation of South Sudan.

Internally displaced people form a line at a food distribution center at a camp for displaced people in Juba, South Sudan.

Amid calls for reconciliation in South Sudan, displaced people remain in limbo

Displacement
A large crowd od people are shown outside of the tan-colored Grand Mosque with a man selling beaded jewelry in the nearground.

After the revolution, a secular Sudan?

Sacred Nation
Police officers with guns drawn patrol the streets of Haiti

Haitian police: Foreign hit squad killed President Moïse

Top of The World
A young girl in Ganyiel’s health clinic watches her 3-year-old sister who is sick with cholera. Her mother brought her over from Tayar island to seek treatment in the clinic.

Cholera stalks ‘refugee islands’ in swamplands of South Sudan

Conflict
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South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar, at right, and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir exchange signed peace agreement documents in Addis Ababa in May 2014.

South Sudan president calls for ‘national dialogue’ to end civil war

Conflict

President Salva Kiir said the dialogue would “consolidate peace” in South Sudan.

South Sudan

Tragedy in South Sudan — and $2.1 million for Washington lobbyists

Conflict

Hundreds dead, thousands displaced in the past week, famine in the wings: Why is its government spending so much on high-powered US lobbyists?

LaTanya Dickson's family has to travel 20 miles to get clean water, which they store in jugs under the kitchen table of their hogan on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.

An NGO focused on water poverty turns its attention from Africa back to the US

Environment

A call from a potential donor to an international NGO working on access to clean water proved a turning point for both the group and a fight in the US.

Women hold their ration cards during food distribution in Minkaman, Lakes State, June 26, 2014. About 94,000 people have sought refuge in Minkaman after fighting broke out in neighboring states, according to the International Organization for Migration.

The world’s youngest country turns three — but there’s not much to celebrate

Conflict & Justice

Three years ago, South Sudan became independent. But the hope of the new nation has given way to brutal realities — war, and now impending famine.Three years ago, South Sudan became independent. But the hope of the new nation has given way to brutal realities — war, and now impending famine.

The World

South Sudan prepares for independence vote

Global Politics

Noel King reports from Juba, the southern capital, to set the scene as the referendum draws near.

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