South Sudan

South Sudanese women’s rights activist Riya William Yuyada has been named one of three winners of the Ginetta Sagan Award by Amnesty International USA, recognises women who ‘protect the dignity, liberties and lives of women and...

Sudan is a diverse country where its population merges its African roots with Arab blood. Unfortunately in Sudan there are many people who have never really felt Sudanese. There has always been a divide between the North and...

The French government donated 59,520 doses of COVAX’s AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccines arrived in Juba, South Sudan on 31 August 2021 and were received at the airport by senior government officials led by Minister of...

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) South Sudan, more than 380,000 people have been affected by flooding in areas along the Nile River, Sudd wetlands and the rivers Lol...

South Sudanese politician Edward Lino Wuor Abyei has passed away on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at the age of 74 of an unidentified illness in Bangalore, India. He was one of the original and leading members...

South Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech Bior has officially been named “Model of the Year” by the British Fashion Council (BFC) at its 2019 Fashion Awards, which took place in London at the Royal Albert Hall on...

A 35-year-old Cambridge University PhD student, Peter Biar Ajak, has been sentenced to two years in prison in South Sudan at the Juba High Court on 11 June 2019 for allegedly threatening South Sudan’s national security....

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual World Happiness Report on 20 March, revealing the world’s happiest and least happy countries in 2019. Finland has once again been ranked as the happiest country in the world,...

The beginning South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan and became an independent country on 9 July 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote. Not long after our celebration of the greatest...

500 Words Magazine gets in conversation with South Sudanese-British vegan blogger, Bachay Akolawin, of Make, Eat, Repeat. Akolawin is a relatively new vegan. She became vegan about two and half years ago, which then motivated her...