The South Sudan Investment Conference held in Juba in the first week of December has been hailed a huge success for the country’s future investment climate. The conference emphasised six priority areas of investment- agriculture, health, infrastructure, mining, petroleum and tourism. Showcasing a va...

The recent UN Mission in South Sudan has expressed ‘cautious optimism’ about the country’s future. South Sudan has a positive outlook for the future according to UN officials who visited the country last week. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, Hilde Johnson, head of the U.N. Mission i...

The Government of South Sudan in collaboration with development partners is organising a two- day investment conference scheduled for December 4-5 this year. More than 300 companies are attending the international investor’s conference for South Sudan in December, which officials hope will be a step...

Sudan has announced that it will extend a deadline to allow the flow of oil from South Sudan to continue until 6th September in a move following mediation from the African Union. Sudan, the sole channel for South Sudan’s oil exports, previously extended a deadline on August 7th by two weeks. The pos...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has appointed James Wani Igga as his deputy, state radio announced on 23rd August. Previously the speaker of Parliament and a commander in the South Sudan Liberation Movement (SPLM), Mr Igga succeeds Dr Reik Machar who was sacked by the President last month following...

An African Union (AU) mediator announced on Tuesday that Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume the flow of southern oil exports through Sudanese pipelines within two weeks and will export as soon as is ‘technically possible’. The deal signed between Idris Mohammed Abdel Gadir, Sudan’s ch...