COVID travel health notice for all travellers. Avoid all travel to South Sudan, due to armed conflicts, inter-ethnic violence and high levels of violent crime. Back to top. While the security environment has improved since the signing of the peace agreement in and the formation of a transitional government in , fighting continues between the government and opposition groups. Tensions remain following a two-year extension of the transitional period, now set to end in Many security checkpoints have been set up throughout the country, making road travel difficult.
Vehicles are regularly stopped and searched and violence has occurred during such encounters. Restrict your movements. With the deteriorating economic conditions, urban crime rates are rising significantly.
Tensions are high and the potential for spontaneous unrest is significant. Inter-tribal clashes occur without warning throughout the country, and there is frequent fighting between the army and armed militia groups.
Regions bordering Sudan are particularly insecure due to periodic tension between Sudan and South Sudan. The situation is extremely volatile in Jonglei state, more specifically in Bor and Pibor due to inter-communal fighting.
Anti-government forces control of much of the countryside, while the government retains control within Bor and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area. Conflict between breakaway armed opposition forces continues in Unity and Upper Nile states. The government currently controls Malakal, but anti-government forces are in control of much of Upper Nile state, west of the Nile River. The government holds most of Unity, including Bentiu.
