The Trump administration is challenging a court ruling on a deportation flight, citing threats to U.S. foreign policy and Article II authority.

South Sudan has long suffered periodic cholera outbreaks, but this one is unique in speed, scale, and scope as conflict-created displacement, flooding, and lack of access to clean water are fuelling the outbreak, according to interviews with experts and officials.

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir removed the country’s long-serving chief justice and Supreme Court president

Destroyed bridges, blackouts, empty water stations and looted hospitals across Sudan bear witness to the devastating impact on infrastructure from two years of war.

The government of South Sudan is facing a $74.32 million penalty over a flopped investment agreement with Vivacell, a foreign telecoms company that had won huge concessions on tax payments, licence fees, investment land and mobile frequencies and tariffs to operate in Juba, prior to independence in 2011.

South Sudan has introduced the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) and rotavirus vaccine into its national immunization program in a bid to protect children under 5 from deadly diseases. The rollout, launched Tuesday in the capital, Juba, targets pneumonia and rotavirus-induced diarrhea—two leading causes of child mortality in the country.

Juba's new order aims to rein in private armies, but history shows the path to disarming militias is fraught with peril.