The report highlights that widespread and extreme poverty stems from a combination of complex historical and systemic factors, including persistent conflicts and violence, inadequate capacity of the ...

Report, released today by the World Bank, indicates that poverty is endemic, and vulnerability is almost universal following a decade of economic decline in the world's youngest country. The most ...

JUBA, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Program (WFP) on Monday appealed to donors to provide funds to enable it to preposition 147,000 metric tonnes of food aid in South Sudan ahead of the rainy ...

JUBA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 76 percent of the estimated 12.4 million South Sudan population lives below the national poverty line of 358,724 South Sudan pounds (about 105 U.S. dollars) per ...

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has issued an alert after a surge in the number of displaced people fleeing war-torn Sudan for ...

Gunfire erupted in the capital, Juba, on Nov. 21 when security forces clashed with troops loyal to former intelligence chief ...

The situation in Sudan is ... this vital food and nutrition to arrive safely,” said Alex Marianelli, WFP’s Operations Deputy ...

War erupted last April between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group whose leader ...

A new South Sudan Poverty and Equity Assessment (PEA) Report released on Tuesday by the World Bank indicates that poverty is ...