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            <title><![CDATA[At Least 169 Killed as Insurgents Attack Village in South Sudan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:17:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Risks Returning to ‘Full-Scale’ War, UN Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:41:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Picks Ninth Finance Minister in Less Than Six Years]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:37:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Says Oil Flowing to Facility Rebels Seized]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:33:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Says Oil Exports Back to Normal After Attacks]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:17:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Cabinet Approves 68% Jump for Delayed 2025-26 Budget]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Asks Crude Producers for $2.5 Billion Pre-Payment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:51:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil-Rich South Sudan’s President Fires His Deputy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:59:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Names Eighth Finance Minister in Five Years]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:24:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Stands by His Climate Agenda]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Bochove]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Severe Birth Defects Plague South Sudan’s Oil Fields]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In 2011, Petronas was warned its South Sudan oil wells may be causing congenital disease. Mercedes-Benz, partner in its Formula 1 team, arranged meetings with the company to press for answers. Over a decade later, children are still being born with serious deformities.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Marks]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Charges Vice President Machar With Treason]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:13:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ghana Joins Growing Africa List Willing to Take US Deportees]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ekow Dontoh]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:03:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Denies Talks With Israel on Relocating Palestinians]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:47:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Deportees Welcomed Into South Sudan to ‘Normalize Relations’]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan May Dismiss Vice President, East African Reports]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-05/south-sudan-may-dismiss-vice-president-east-african-reports</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 10:30:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UN Urges Ceasefire as Fighting Flares Between South Sudan Rivals]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:11:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan to Coordinate Return of Deportees With US Government]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:25:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Renewed Fighting in South Sudan Leaves 180 People Dead, UN Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:13:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Women wash clothes in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Bentiu, South Sudan.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Sudan Says Vice President Detained for Plotting Rebellion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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