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For the first time in the history, the South Sudan men's basketball team, the youngest basketball nation in Olympic history, qualified for Paris, through the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, as the highest rank from African zone. [2] Team roster. A 50-player roster was announced on 30 April 2024. [3] It was cut to 25 players on 3 June 2024. [4]
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission for South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011. UNMISS [1] was established on 8 July 2011 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996 (2011). Since December 2016, UNMISS has been led by the Secretary-General's Special Representative ...
6 August – Two people are killed after Sudanese warplanes enter South Sudanese airspace and bomb the town of Khortumbak in Upper Nile State. [6]9 August – Petronas pulls out of South Sudan after 14 years in operation, citing changes in the industrial environment.
2737 →. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2736, adopted on 13 June 2024, demands that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in Sudan halt a siege and de-escalate fighting in North Darfur's capital Al-Fashir. It also demands that parties involved in the fighting to adhere to international humanitarian law, by protecting ...
The 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup, officially the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons, [1] is the 22nd edition of the CAF Confederation Cup and 50th overall season of Africa's secondary club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Bam Adebayo came off the bench and scored a team-high 18 points in a 103–86 win over South Sudan that clinched a spot in the quarterfinals. [68] After nearly beating the United States in their exhibition game, the South Sudanese led 7–6 and 10–8 before the Americans outscored them 25–4 for a 33–14 lead and 55–36 edge at halftime.
Preceded by. 1998 Sudan famine. Throughout 2024, the population of Sudan suffered from severe malnutrition and human-made famine conditions as a result of the Sudanese civil war beginning in 2023, primarily in Darfur, Kordofan, and neighboring refugee-taking nations such as Chad. Famine conditions were caused in part by deliberate attempts by ...
The 2024 South Sudan floods refer to catastrophic flooding across the African nation of South Sudan, resulting in "over 735,000 people across 38 of South Sudan’s 78 counties and the Abyei Administrative Area " being directly impacted, and 65,000 people being displaced, of which 41,000 were displaced from Warrap. [1][2]