James W. Cousins is an Untapped Cities correspondent working in South Sudan. Please note that this piece is a retrospective written in June 2012. He blogs about his experience in South Sudan at ...

Around the Nyakuron Market in downtown Juba, the stench of rotting trash hangs heavily in the air. Traffic congestion limits access to shops, and power outages are rife, disrupting business in South ...

Turkish Airlines continues to expand its flight network with flights to Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Connecting Africa to more destinations than any other in the world, the Turkish flag carrier ...

JUBA, South Sudan, May 16 (UNHCR) - A first group of 326 South Sudanese was flown home this week after waiting for many months in a congested and increasingly tense site in Sudan. The movement on ...

The easiest way to travel to Juba, the Capital city of South Sudan from Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, by road is to pass through Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. There are many buses plying ...

The soaring hopes at South Sudan’s creation in 2011 have been cruelly dashed. Pope Francis arrived in the country on Friday and immediately offered blunt criticism of its leaders. A street scene in ...

Africa's youngest nation was devastated by a war that broke out in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir sacked his vice president, Riek Machar. Africa's youngest nation was devastated by a war that ...

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan said Sunday it planned to move its capital to a more central location in the next few years, a project analysts say would be a costly distraction for a nation with almost ...

Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard throughout the night in the South Sudanese capital Juba. Local media said the fighting was between rival factions of the presidential guard and focused ...