10 Aid Workers Go Missing in South Sudan

FILE PHOTO: An armed man walks on a path close to the village of Nialdhiu, South Sudan February 7, 2017. Picture taken February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/
FILE PHOTO: An armed man walks on a path close to the village of Nialdhiu, South Sudan February 7, 2017. Picture taken February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/
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10 Aid Workers Go Missing in South Sudan

FILE PHOTO: An armed man walks on a path close to the village of Nialdhiu, South Sudan February 7, 2017. Picture taken February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/
FILE PHOTO: An armed man walks on a path close to the village of Nialdhiu, South Sudan February 7, 2017. Picture taken February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/

Ten aid workers have gone missing in South Sudan in unclear circumstances just days after another group of humanitarians was abducted by gunmen, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the civil war-torn country, said Thursday.

Alain Noudehou said in a statement that three UN staffers and seven aid workers, all of them South Sudanese, went missing early Wednesday when their convoy driving from Yei town to Tore in Central Equatoria disappeared.

The aid workers are with South Sudanese Development Organization, ACROSS, Plan International and Action Africa Help.

Noudehou condemned the latest attack against colleagues. This is the third time aid workers have been held by armed groups in the last six months alone, the statement said.

Seven local aid workers seized by opposition forces earlier this month in the same area were later freed. Two other local aid workers were killed in a separate incident this month in Unity state.

"We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of these humanitarian workers and are urgently seeking information about their well-being," Noudehou said.

South Sudan is one of the world's most dangerous places for humanitarians. At least 98 have been killed since the civil war began in December 2013, most of them local workers.

Neither the government nor the opposition claimed responsibility for the latest disappearance.

The opposition leadership "is doing everything to get in contact with the commanders on the ground to find the truth," spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel told The Associated Press, pointing out the presence of many armed groups in the area.

Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said the army was unaware of the incident.



Russian Attack Kills 3 in Ukraine’s City of Dnipro, Governor Says

 A firefighter works at the site of a household item shopping mall which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the city of Kamianske, Dnipro region, Ukraine July 26, 2025. (Reuters)
A firefighter works at the site of a household item shopping mall which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the city of Kamianske, Dnipro region, Ukraine July 26, 2025. (Reuters)
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Russian Attack Kills 3 in Ukraine’s City of Dnipro, Governor Says

 A firefighter works at the site of a household item shopping mall which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the city of Kamianske, Dnipro region, Ukraine July 26, 2025. (Reuters)
A firefighter works at the site of a household item shopping mall which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the city of Kamianske, Dnipro region, Ukraine July 26, 2025. (Reuters)

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack that killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipro and the nearby region on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said.

Moscow's troops launched 235 drones and 27 missiles, damaging residential and commercial buildings and causing fires, the Ukrainian Air Force said. It said in a statement that 10 missiles and 25 attack drones hit nine sites. The rest of the drones and missiles were brought down, the Air Force said.

"A terrible night. A massive combined attack on the region," Serhiy Lysak, the Dnipropetrovsk regional governor, said on the Telegram app.

He said three people were killed in the attacks and six others wounded in the city of Dnipro and the nearby region.

Lysak posted pictures showing firefighters battling fires, a residential building with smashed windows, and charred cars.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed retaliatory strikes.

"Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, and Russian airports should feel that Russia’s own war is now hitting them back with real consequences," Zelenskiy said on the Telegram app.

Ukraine's attacks on Russia have heated up in recent months, with Moscow and Kyiv exchanging swarms of drones and fierce fighting raging along more than 1,000 kilometers of the frontline.