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A Fogbow aid plane is loaded at an airport in Juba, South Sudan, on June 9, 2025, before conducting airdrops of food in the Upper Nile region. (AP Photo/ Florence Miettaux)
August 18, 2025, 7:48 pm
Israel to send humanitarian aid to South Sudan as it battles deadly cholera outbreak
Jerusalem plans to provide Juba with medical equipment, water purification supplies and food, amid reports that it’s in talks to relocate Gazans to the troubled East African nation
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift camp along the beach in Gaza City, August 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
August 13, 2025, 11:54 pm
Israel said in talks with Indonesia, Libya, 3 more countries about taking in Gazans
Somaliland, Uganda and South Sudan also reportedly in discussions, with diplomatic source telling Channel 12 Indonesia and Somaliland are particularly interested
By ToI Staff and AP
FILE - The silhouettes of South Sudanese people are seen through a South Sudanese flag as they line up to cast their votes in Juba, South Sudan, on January 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
August 13, 2025, 5:46 am
Israel said in talks with South Sudan about taking in Gazans; African country denies
Founder of a US lobbying firm working with South Sudanese government says Israeli delegation plans to visit country to look into potentially setting up camps for Palestinians there
By AP and ToI Staff
A woman chats with an Israel-based organization (IsraAID) chatbot in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, February 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
March 16, 2025, 8:49 am
Israeli aid group uses chatbot to help survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan
Assisting survivors in impoverished country with low literacy is major challenge; IsraAid says technology can help maintain data in place of paper files that can go missing
By SAM MEDNICK
People cross the border from Sudan to South Sudan at the Joda border crossing in South Sudan on May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)
June 14, 2023, 11:07 pm
UN says 2 million displaced in Sudan since beginning of conflict in April
Over 900 civilians have been killed and more than half a million have fled
By SAM MAGDY
Illustrative -- Doctors and nurses take a child brought to Israel by Save a Child's Heart to recovery after the infant underwent open-heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, on August 13, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:56 am
In first, 4 children from South Sudan to get life-saving heart surgery in Israel
Children with congenital heart disease will receive treatment at Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center as part of a joint initiative by Save a Child’s Heart and IsraAID
By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok at a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, August 21, 2019. (AP Photo, File)
September 26, 2020, 5:43 pm
Sudan’s PM rebuffs tying Israel relations with removal from US terrorism list
Abdalla Hamdok tells a conference in Khartoum that normalizing with the Jewish state requires ‘a deep discussion in society,’ Reuters reports
By ToI Staff
Major General (Res.) Israel Ziv in Tel Aviv, December 06, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 27, 2020, 10:56 am
US lifts sanctions on ex-IDF general accused of arms sales to South Sudan
Israel Ziv was targeted by Washington over alleged weapons and ammunition deals with both the government and the opposition in war-torn country
By ToI Staff
The flight path of Benjamin Netanyahu's plane over South Sudan en route from Chad to Israel, as seen on a screen inside Netanyahu's plane, January 20, 2019. (Rraphael Ahren)
January 21, 2019, 12:49 am
Khartoum lets Netanyahu’s plane fly over South Sudan, in first for Israel
Flight back from Chad shortened by an hour as Sudan gives permission for PM’s jet to cross over airspace of southern neighbor, amid reports of diplomatic opening
By Raphael Ahren
In this photo taken August 19, 2017, government soldiers cross over to the west bank of the Nile in order to patrol the front lines, in the town of Kuek, northern Upper Nile state, South Sudan. (AP/Sam Mednick)
December 18, 2018, 12:57 pm
South Sudan, Israeli ex-general deny arms deals, reject US sanctions
Government insists Israel Ziv only worked on local agricultural projects; retired Israeli general calls US allegations he fueled conflict ‘ludicrous and baseless’
By Tamar Pileggi
IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv speaks to the Kan public broadcaster in March 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
December 14, 2018, 9:25 pm
US sanctions ex-Israeli general for $150 million in arms sales to South Sudan
Treasury Department says IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv supported both government and opposition group, planned attacks by mercenaries to destabilize situation
By Agencies
Girls walk towards the site of an aerial food drop by the World Food Program (WFP) in the town of Kandak, South Sudan, May 2, 2018. (Sam Mednick/AP)
November 21, 2018, 7:26 pm
Child bride auction in South Sudan goes viral, sparking anger
Highest bidder for 17-year-old is a man three times her age who pays 500 cows, 2 cars and $10,000 for her hand in marriage
By SAM MEDNICK
Avidan Freedman
July 18, 2018, 1:15 pm
Avidan Freedman
Why not to fast on Tisha B’Av
Well, do you make decisions based on realpolitik, or based on religious value commitments?
FILE - In this Thursday, May 18, 2017, file photo, soldiers cheer at a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), attended by President Salva Kiir, in the capital Juba, South Sudan. (AP /Samir Bol)
July 13, 2018, 4:48 am
UN set to impose arms embargo on war-torn South Sudan
Israel, which has forged close ties with country, has been accused of selling guns and surveillance equipment that have helped fuel civil war
By AP
A man inspects rubble after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, February 4, 2018. (Hani Mohammed/AP)
June 28, 2018, 9:08 am
UN: 10,000 children killed, maimed in conflicts worldwide in 2017
Global body says attacks by Saudi Arabia and UAE responsible for half of the 1,300 child deaths or injuries in Yemen
By Verena Dobnik
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