South Sudan has five vice presidents, according to the 2018 agreement, which ended five years of civil war and was reached with the help of the U.S. and others.

Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country's latest ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

It is the sixth time Uganda has been hit by an outbreak of the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine. Of the five other Ebola species, just one has licensed vaccines.

February 5, 2025 (PORT SUDAN) – A diplomatic crisis between Sudan and South Sudan intensified on Wednesday, marked by rising tensions and a war of words between their foreign ministries.

Kenya is in discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to extend its Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Uganda and South Sudan This builds on Uganda's October agreement with Yapi Merkezi ...

More than one million people have fled the war in Sudan to seek refuge in neighbouring South Sudan, according to the United Nations. In its latest update on one of the world’s worst displacement ...

Nairobi — The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is mobilizing efforts to support national health authorities in swiftly containing and ending the outbreak of the Sudan virus disease in Uganda.

JUBA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - South Sudan's police imposed a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Friday after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese ...

Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organisation (WHO), and other partners have launched the first-ever vaccine trial against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus. This marks a global ...

A clinical trial of a potentially effective vaccine against Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) has started in Uganda after the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a Sudan Ebola outbreak last week.