South Sudan refugee children attend a class in Juba, South Sudan Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/)

The Council of the South Sudan Bar Association on Thursday announced that 83 lawyers have lost their practicing licenses in an ongoing registration aimed at reorganizing the lawyers’ body.

South Sudan has announced the closure of all schools for two weeks due to an ongoing extreme heatwave that has caused some students to collapse

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overrun an army base in the country’s north.

The information minister told reporters that a government garrison in the region was overrun by the rebels early Tuesday and that fighting was ongoing.