South Sudan’s media regulator on Friday suspended the operations of the UN-aided Radio Miraya FM.

The U. S. is set to announce an arms embargo against South Sudan, three sources familiar with the decision told Reuters, stepping up pressure against President Salva Kiir to end the country’s civil war and humanitarian crisis.

Officials on Friday said clashes have broken out near South Sudan’s capital Juba between government troops and rebels, the latest violation of a ceasefire signed in December.

Eight years after Boko Haram launched a senseless war that has claimed over 20,000 lives and displaced over 1.8 million people now scattered in IDP camps across North Eastern Nigeria, the real cost of the fratricidal war now beckons: 8.5 million people are in urgent need of life-saving assistance, 5.2 million are in dire need of food security interventions and 3.4 in urgent need of nutrition assistance. But the fund for all of this is not readily available, putting the fate of the victims in the balance and their future in uncertainty.

Eight years after Boko Haram launched a senseless war that has claimed over 20,000 lives and displaced over 1.8 million people now scattered in IDP camps across North Eastern Nigeria, the real cost of the fratricidal war now beckons: 8.5 million people are in urgent need of life-saving assistance, 5.2 million are in dire need of food security interventions and 3.4 in urgent need of nutrition assistance.

The United States said Thursday it will spend another $575 million dollars to help the millions facing starvation and violence amid wars and unrest in Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia.

More than 20 million people are at risk from famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and the northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.

Exiled South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar declined to renounce violence or declare a unilateral ceasefire and instead demanded new peace talks outside the war-torn country, an international mediator told the UN.

Uganda had a goal disallowed and a penalty saved when drawing 0-0 with South Sudan Friday in an African Nations Championship (CHAN) second round, first-leg qualifier in Juba.

South Sudan’s media regulatory body has lifted the ban on foreign journalists to allow them operate in the country.

The escalating conflict in South Sudan has driven more than one million children out of the country, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Monday.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan reported recently that a steady process of ethnic cleansing is underway in the country, involving massacres, starvation, gang-rape and destruction of villages. But the country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Paul Molong Akaro, in this interview, denies the UN report, describing it as false.

South Sudan journalist John Gatluak knew the risks of war: his radio station was destroyed twice but he never stopped broadcasting the news, even when hiding in swamps.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, warned that the lingering crisis in South Sudan must not be allowed to lead to the collapse of the country.

One woman was abducted by soldiers and taken to a military camp, tied up and raped repeatedly for two months.