SOUTH SUDAN
Some of Them Had No Shoes. Now They’re Running in the Olympics.
How a team of refugee athletes made it to the Tokyo Games.
The World’s Youngest Country Wants to Build a New Capital in a Former Rhino Sanctuary
South Sudan is 10 years old, but it's not a particularly happy birthday. Could a custom-built new capital help?
These Athletes Came to Japan in 2019 To Train for the Games. They’re Still Stuck There.
The Olympians don't mind the long wait: "In South Sudan, we have sandy running tracks, so you can imagine this is a lot better."
Record Flooding Kills at Least 200 in Africa's Sahel Region
Unprecedented rainfall has displaced hundreds of thousands, and led experts to warn of potential food shortages.
How Stealing and Selling Children Became a Business in South Sudan
A warlord may be a mother’s only hope to find her missing children in South Sudan.
South Sudan Just Ended Its Civil War — for Now
The news is a glimmer of hope for the traumatized country, but ethnic tension is just under the surface in the nation's second largest city.
The Second-Deadliest Outbreak of Ebola Ever is About to Spread to a Third Country
A second case in the Congolese border city Goma is raising fears the outbreak will spread into Rwanda.
Key rebel leader in South Sudan’s civil war rejects peace deal, won't lay down arms
“We’re not going to stop. If Juba thinks that without bullets we’re not going to be able to protect ourselves and our people they’re wrong,” rebel leader Thomas Cirillo told VICE News.
A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook
“This barbaric use of technology is reminiscent of latter-day slave markets.”
South-Sudanese Australians Talk Police, Politics and the Media
“We stand with the victims of all these crimes.”
For These South Sudanese Refugee Girls, Education is Everything
“There’s an urgent need to empower refugee girls socially and economically. It’s through education that they can achieve transformation at a personal level and that will also benefit the country of their origin.”
What It's Like to Build a Hospital in a Warzone
An engineer in war-torn South Sudan explains what its like to build medical infrastructure in a place so violent that the UN can't send in its own ground workers.