International humanitarian agency Plan International on Wednesday launched a five-year USD 135 million strategy aimed ...

Young girls are still being auctioned off into marriage in exchange for cows in South Sudan, activists have said. The issue was one they had hoped to raise with the Pope when he visited the ...

JUBA, Feb 4 (Reuters ... child brides are common and most girls do not reach secondary education. The rights of girls and women was a recurring theme on the penultimate day of the pope's ...

Nobody is quite sure how the ferry sank. Ayuen Samuel, who manages the old shipyard in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, thinks it ran aground on this treacherous stretch of the White Nile after ...