South Sudan

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...

All over the world, there has been a rise in veganism and vegetarianism, mostly out of compassion for animals and a personal responsibility towards sustainability and reducing carbon emissions. It is believed there are at least one billion vegetarians worldwide....

Edward Luka explores the most common mean of public transportation in Juba, the Bodaboda, its disadvantages, and...... its disadvantages...Read More

Edward Luka shines some light on the nature of the health system, and the virtual nonexistence of health services, in South Sudan. ...Read More

Edward Luka experienced Ramadan in Sudan as an onlooker, and here he lets us in on what he saw during the holy month....Read More

John Garang was sent from Khartoum to Bor, in May of 1983, to quash a mutiny by 500 Southern government soldiers. He never returned. Choosing not to follow the orders that were given to him, John...