South Sudan In Focus - VOA Africa Voice of America (VOA)

People living with HIV/AIDS in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State capital Torit say stigma and poverty has contributed to the spread of the virus in the state; expert confirm famine in Sudan's Darfur; plus, more.

South Sudanese basketball fans are recovering from their shocks after the United States team beat the country’s men’s Olympics basketball team, 103 to 86. Some fans who gathered to watch the game at a basketball gymnasium in Juba say they are hopeful the national team could still reach the finals.

South Sudan in Focus airs at 7:30 pm in Juba (1630 UTC) and can be heard on FM stations throughout South Sudan, on shortwave, and on VOA’s 24-hour channel in Nairobi at 8:30 pm. The program is hosted by John Tanza in Washington D.C., and a network of reporters around South Sudan and in Washington.

Juba town resident say they are living in a police state following heavy deployment of security forces on the streets of the capital; authorities in Yei, Morobo and Kajokeji counties say gunmen attack villages; South Sudan commemorates the death of politician and revolutionary leader John Garang de Mabior.

South Sudan Basketball fans celebrated the first Olympic win by the Bright Star with watch parties hosted across the country; basketball fans in Malakal celebrated South Sudan’s victory against Puerto Rico on Sunday in the Summer Olympics being held in Paris. The fans say the game united them, irrespective of tribes; plus, more.

Relatives of South Sudan’s Olympic basketball players are excited to watch them play in Paris; officials at the Catholic Church’s St. Theresa Hospital in Nzara country allege the state and national governments have neglected patients; hunger force South Sudanese to return to Sudan; plus, more.