July 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1850, U.S. President Zachary Taylor died suddenly of cholera. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ...
South Sudan celebrated its 14th Independence Day on Wednesday without official fanfare, reflecting the mounting political and economic problems for the country since 2011. The last official ...
South Sudan won independent statehood following an internationally supervised referendum in 2011. The transitional constitution, drafted after the referendum, is the country’s founding law. It ...
Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla greets Pope Francis in 2023. (Creidit: Vatican Media.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – In the 14 years after South Sudan gained independence from Sudan, problems have ...
As South Sudan celebrates its independence on July 9th, becoming the newest African nation, feelings of jubilation are widespread among Southern Sudanese, and understandably so. Secession, which is ...
Elections are pivotal milestones in post-conflict countries – and nowhere is voter anticipation felt more keenly than in South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation. The country, which won independence ...
UNITED NATIONS — South Sudan is not ready to hold its first post-independence elections in December and political players are discussing whether voting should be held this year, the U.N.’s top envoy ...
July 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1850, U.S. President Zachary Taylor died suddenly of cholera. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ...