South Sudan is due to hold long-delayed general elections in December 2026, and some wonder if the world’s youngest nation ...

The SPLM leadership should have recognized that since Southern Sudan was going to gain independence from Sudan in 2011, a ...

Yet 13 years on, things in South Sudan have not gone to plan. The country is experiencing perhaps its worst economic crisis ...

South Sudan, the world’s newest nation ... civil war concluded with the promise of an independence referendum. This pivotal vote in January 2011 marked the birth of South Sudan six months ...

As Sudan prepared for its 1956 independence ... the south got a share of power—and more importantly, an option to become independent six years later via a referendum. That six-year deadline ...

As part of a cease-fire agreement, a referendum led to South Sudan’s declaration as an independent state in 2011. But its short history has been fraught with conflict. Almost immediately after ...

was planned to be held simultaneously to the South Sudanese independence referendum in January 2011, but was postponed indefinitely because of disagreements over the process. AllAfrica publishes ...

The elections are to be the first in South Sudan since its independence in 2011. The postponement was over pending ...

When the world’s newest country declared independence in 2011 ... its birth, South Sudan still awaits its promised brighter future. Ravaged by violence and corruption, it has not held a single ...

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, according to the peace deal ending Africa's longest-running civil war. Independence, however, has not brought conflict and its consequences to an ...