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January 31, 2020 | New Vision
Sucked Dry
Huge swaths of land acquired by foreign investors in Africa's Nile River Basin export profits, displace communities
Country
South Sudan
December 16, 2019 | Field Notes
Satellite Research: How We Used Images for Verification and Analysis in South Sudan
Carolyn Thompson and team used satellite imagery research in refugee camps to confirm accusations of attacks and property destruction.
December 16, 2019 | Field Notes
Reporting From Outside South Sudan: How a Phone Survey Helped Us Get to the Truth
How do you report on a place you can’t visit? Our team of journalists used a mobile phone survey to get information from people we couldn’t go meet in person.
September 12, 2019 | Al Jazeera
Forced Out: Measuring the Scale of the Conflict in South Sudan
We dialed more than 35,000 random phone numbers to paint an accurate picture of displacement across the entire country.
September 04, 2019 | Water Journalists Africa
Uncertainty Over Laws Fuel Land Grabs in South Sudan
The scramble for land along River Nile by foreign investors in has seen swaths and stretches of fertile communal lands being allocated without the due involvement of local communities.
August 30, 2019 | The Lancet
Picturing Health: Health Services in Refugee Camps Are Helping South Sudanese Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence
Health clinics in Ugandan refugee camps provide services to South Sudanese women who have survived sexual violence.
June 17, 2019 | Juba Monitor
Green Horizon Food Security Project Raises Wellbeing of Jebel Ladu Communities While Growing Crops to Appease South Sudan’s Hunger Crisis
More than 2.5 million hectares of land in South Sudan have been acquired mainly by international investors since 2006. An Israeli-run farm is helping to fill the country's gap in food production.
February 13, 2019 | New Vision
Beyond Fueling Land Grabs: Dams and Reservoirs Worsen Water Shortages
While water dams and reservoirs produce much needed renewable energy, provide water for agriculture, industrial use, and control river flow and flooding, a new study by scientists has found that they can potentially worsen the negative impacts of droughts and water shortages.
February 11, 2019 | Liberation
Soudan du Sud Itinéraire d'un Enfant Soldat
In a still-nascent state, South Sudan, thousands of minors are enlisted in the government and rebel armed forces. The invisible victims of a conflict they have no control over.
January 11, 2019 | Magazine Axelle
Cette Terre Est une Extension de Moi-Même / This Country Is an Extension of Myself
A new generation of educated and passionate South Sudanese women, often from the diaspora, have come back to help rebuild their country and search for their identity.
November 25, 2018 | Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS)
Le Problème des Enfants Soldats au Soudan du Sud
Lam is 11 years old. He flees, then follows the men with guns. Today, he still lives with his nightmares. (French language broadcast)
November 22, 2018 | Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
South Sudan at Seven, With Little to Celebrate
South Sudan, the youngest nation in the World, turned 7 years old on the 9th of July 2018. But lives are still lost, and the optimism that came with independance is now a distant memory.
Was Your Sister Disturbed?
South Sudan's five-year war has impacted people in ways that have not previously been reported.
Scars and Resilience in South Sudan
In South Sudan, the trauma of the war and the use of child soldiers is transmitted from one generation to another. But people are also finding ways to keep hope.
Sucked Dry: Land Grabs and Water Access in the Nile River Basin
As world water shortages worsen, foreign companies are scooping up fertile land in the Nile River basin. But how are some of the world’s poorest countries affected? Water Journalists Africa reports.
Stealing South Sudan: Civil War, Land Grabs, and Displacement
Thousands of people have been forced off their properties in South Sudan—and often the perpetrators are those in power.
South Sudan in Crisis
South Sudan is the world’s newest nation but ethnic violence, economic collapse and famine are spiralling. Millions of lives, and the future of the country, are at stake.
A Look Inside South Sudan's Bitter War
Mass killings, mass rape, ethnic cleansing, starvation and a lack of international will to act against the specter of genocide: A rare look inside the crisis in South Sudan.
Milk and Blood: The Making of South Sudan
An immersive, transmedia book project for the iPad on the birth of the world's newest country from photographer Trevor Snapp and reporter Alan Boswell.
April 28, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Patricia Huon and Andreea Câmpeanu
Patricia Huon and Andreea Câmpeanu traveled to South Sudan and Uganda to report on children and youth who were associated with armed groups—looking at how these children were dealing with trauma while reintegrating back home.
June 26, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Cassandra Vinograd – South Sudan
Cassandra Vinograd discusses her reporting in South Sudan—the world's newest nation and a country on the brink of collapse.
May 12, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Jane Ferguson
Jane Ferguson, a foreign correspondent for PBS NewsHour, traveled to South Sudan to cover its complicated conflict and humanitarian disaster.
September 22, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Beatrice Obwocha
Meet Beatrice Obwocha, a Kenyan journalist reporting on road safety.
May 02, 2012 | Education Resources
Pre-visit materials: Jen Marlowe
Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.
March 09, 2020 | Awards
Pulitzer Center Data Project Wins Third Place at Philip Meyer Awards
The Philip Meyer Award recognizes the best uses of empirical methods in journalism. The awards were presented on March 7 in New Orleans during the 2020 NICAR Conference.
January 15, 2020 | Awards
Carolyn Thompson Wins 2019 IRE Award for Reporting on South Sudanese Refugee Crisis
Pulitzer Center grantee wins IRE award for reporting on refugees and tracking human displacement in South Sudan amidst civil war.
October 03, 2018 | General news, Awards
Cassandra Vinograd, Peter Tinti, and Jack Losh Named Finalists for Kurt Schork Memorial Award
Grantees Cassandra Vinograd, Peter Tinti, and Jack Losh were finalists for an award honoring some of the most courageous, yet least recognized, journalists around the world.
June 09, 2017 | General news
Gender Lens: Women in Conflict Zones
For female reporters covering conflict, being pigeonholed to report "women's issues" is one of many unique challenges.
May 18, 2017 | General news
Female Journalists Featured on @PulitzerCenter Instagram for Gender Lens Conference
For a week, the Pulitzer Center will be featuring photography by female journalists around the world.
May 09, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: South Sudan's Endless War
This week: violence against civilians in South Sudan's civil war, a review of Emmanuel Macron's win in France, and China's investment in renewable energy.
July 06, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: Untold Truths
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer highlights this week's reporting from the Ivory Coast, South Sudan and Burma.
May 25, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: Peace Looks a Lot Like War
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Japan to South Sudan.
April 24, 2012 | Project news
Support "Milk and Blood" South Sudan Emphas.is Fundraising Campaign
The "Milk and Blood" project has launched a crowdfunding campaign through the Emphas.is platform. The Pulitzer Center will match up to $10,000 of the money raised.
April 20, 2012 | General news
This Week in Review: After the Oil Is Gone
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on United Arab Emirates' renewable energy investment, Afghanistan, the LRA and our new iPad book project on South Sudan.
November 30, 2011 | Project news
Magnum Foundation Interviews Cedric Gerbehaye and Rebecca Hamilton on Sudan
The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund interviewed Pulitzer Center grantees Cedric Gerbehaye and Rebecca Hamilton on the transition occurring in Sudan after the South gained independence July 9.
June 27, 2017 | All Grades, College
Exploring Other Countries
In this lesson, students use the Pulitzer Center website to research a specific country before giving an oral presentation.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
September 23, 2016 | All Grades
Exploring Fragile States: Sudan
Sudan has been a "fragile state" for more than two decades. Through this webquest, students are able to explore this complex country using several different reporting projects on Sudan.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
April 10, 2016 | College
Human Rights Reporting
Students will critically examine the legal, professional and moral obligations of journalists as witnesses to all kinds of human rights violations.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
August 05, 2015 | All Grades
What Should the United States’s Foreign Policy Be When Militiamen Rule?
Students will develop a foreign policy proposal regarding fragile states, which they will plan to submit to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.