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In South Sudan youth are defined as anyone between 18-40 years old.
According to the 2008 housing and population census nearly 70 percent of the entire population come into this category.
- Monday 20 May 2013
May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Renowned Eritrean activist Meron Estefanos has told an international conference in Oslo that of all the atrocities taking place in the repressive Red Sea nation, the plight of its youth is the most harrowing. (...)
- Monday 5 November 2012
November 5, 2012 (JUBA) - An explosion in Warrap State has killed three children leaving another in critical condition after sustaining multiple injuries, local authorities told Sudan Tribune on Sunday.
The blast was believed to have (...)
- Wednesday 19 December 2012
December 18, 2012 (WAU) - A local youth leader from South Sudan’s Twic County in Warrap State has been cleared of sabotage by county authorities in November, youth groups and relative told Sudan Tribune on Friday. Warrap State in red. (...)
- Wednesday 1 May 2013
April 30, 2013 (JUBA) - Kajo Keji County commissioner, Ben Yengi, is reported to have ignored an order from the Central Equatoria government and gone ahead with his marriage to a school girl who is reported to be under the legal age. (...)
- Friday 14 September 2012
September 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Anti-narcotics authorities in Sudan rang the alarm bell on Tuesday over what an official described as the “insane” increases in the domestic rate of illicit drugs intake especially among young segments of (...)
- Tuesday 23 October 2012
October 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of Sudan’s main clerical authority, the Religious Scholars Committee (RSC), has publicly advocated girl child marriage, drawing the ire of women activists rights who called for an immediate ban (...)
- Friday 15 February 2013
February 14, 2013 (BOR) - The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) announced on Thursday at a ceremony in Jonglei state that it will sponsor 40 South Sudanese students through secondary school in 2013. The principal of Malek Academy addressing (...)
- Monday 21 November 2011
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
November 18, 2011 (BENTIU) - The commissioner of Unity state’s Payinjiar county Peter Gai Joak has denounced early marriage and initiation ceremonies as violation of the rights of children in the county, while (...)
- Tuesday 7 May 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
May 6, 2013 (BENTIU) - Unity state authorities have removed 27 children from South Sudan’s national army this week as part of the implementation of a series of agreements inked by military and the United (...)
- Wednesday 9 November 2011
By Julius N. Uma
November 7, 2011 (JUBA) - A mass Polio vaccination of children less than five years old has began in South Sudan on Tuesday as health officials and development partners seek to make Africa’s newest nation free from the (...)
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