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[CPJ] Kampala -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in South Sudan to urgently reform its new cybercrimes law, which punishes defamation with up to five years in prison, criminalizes speech on overbroad grounds, and fails to protect whistleblowers and public interest reporting.

[allAfrica] At least 74 mine workers have been killed by gunmen in South Sudan's mineral-rich Jebel Iraq area near Juba, with government and opposition officials trading accusations over who was behind the deaths.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The National Police Service (NPS) on Wednesday welcomed back a contingent of 11 officers who completed an 18-month peacekeeping mission in South Sudan under the United Nations.

[Horn Diplomat] Addis Ababa, April 2 (Horn Diplomat) -- Intergovernmental Authority on Development "IGAD" Special Envoy for South Sudan Moussa Djama held consultations with Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Gideon Timotheos in Addis Ababa, focusing on efforts to advance peace in South Sudan, the IGAD Secretariat said.

[ISS] With the window for holding meaningful elections fast closing, can the three initiatives underway deliver more than previous efforts?

[Daily Maverick] While industry associations and government (the President included) are trying to reassure the public that there is no national fuel shortage, their reassurances are disconnected from the reality that motorists are facing at fuel stations around the country.

[MSF] A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Nyatim, in Nyirol County, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Some 30,000 people have fled to Nyatim in search of safety after recent violence in Lankien and Pieri, finding shelter under trees next to a swamp. According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members who are in the area, at least 58 people have died over the past four weeks, where authorities are blocking humanitarian access to aid organisations.

[U.S. Embassy Juba] If the transitional government truly means to hold elections, we urge that it first create conditions to ensure that the elections are both peaceful and advance the objective of sustainable peace. This requires an immediate return to dialogue among the parties to the 2018 peace agreement. Genuine dialogue cannot happen when key leaders are imprisoned, including when the head of the second largest party to the agreement is under arrest and on trial.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Uganda's refugee population is set to rise to over two million as the country is expected to host another 27,000 in the 2026/2027 financial year.

[African Union] The African Union Pan-African Institute for Education for Development (AU IPED), through the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) Africa 19 Hub a joint initiative with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), has successfully concluded a three-day workshop in Juba, South Sudan, to support the strengthening of the country's Education Management Information System (EMIS).

[allAfrica] Geneva -- The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has expressed its profound sorrow at the passing of Nicholas ''Fink'' Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

[UN News] The UN is mourning the loss of Nicholas Haysom, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for South Sudan, whose went from advising Nelson Mandela following the historic anti-apartheid struggle to becoming a "tireless" champion of crisis diplomacy for the UN in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

[RFI] South Sudan's army forced an estimated 100,000 people to flee across the border into Ethiopia after ordering the evacuation of the opposition-held town of Akobo earlier this month, Unicef said Tuesday.

[allAfrica] Geneva -- The world's youngest nation, South Sudan, is facing a severe and worsening health emergency driven by conflict, displacement, flooding, food insecurity and repeated disease outbreaks, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday.

[Agenzia Fides] Juba -- "Mental Health - Invisible Wounds: Mental Health, GBV, and the Lived Realities of Women with Disabilities in South Sudan - Let us take action!" is the title of the roundtable organized by the ResPEct project at the University of Juba.

[The New Humanitarian] Akobo, South Sudan &amp; Nairobi -- "There is no other description other than a full-scale war."

South Sudan News