The World Food Programme (WFP) says 1.7 million people are at risk of starvation in South Sudan as it has to suspend planned aid for the people of the world’s youngest country due to the current crisis in Ukraine.

A mystery illness claims nearly 100 lives in South Sudan, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to deploy a rapid response team to the region.

Sudan agrees with protesters to allow the resumption of oil exports from neighboring South Sudan via a Red Sea terminal.

Heavy flooding has affected and displaced about 426,000 people in South Sudan, including 185,000 children.

The WHO has urged African countries to take hold of expired Covid-19 jabs and wait for further instructions reassuring that the "vaccines can still be used even after nine months".

At least ten people, including two pilots, die when a plane crashes at an airstrip in South Sudan's Jonglei State.

Nearly a million and a half children face acute malnutrition in the conflict-ravaged eastern African nation.