Fuerza Aérea de Sudán del Sur
The South Sudan Air Force, the air arm of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces, was created on paper in 2008 and flew its first Russian-built Mi-17 helicopters into Juba at the end of 2010, six months before independence; in the civil war that began in December 2013 it bought Mi-24 gunships and L-39 jets, and since 2025 its air strikes in Upper Nile and Jonglei have been documented by UN, human-rights and medical organisations, while the government has never published what it flies.
The South Sudan Air Force story: Mi-17s before independence, gunships in a civil war and air strikes in Upper Nile and Jonglei
1983–2010: a guerrilla army without aircraft
South Sudan’s armed forces descend from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, founded on 16 May 1983 when Battalion 105 attacked Sudanese army forces at Bor. No SPLA air arm is recorded in the sources reached for the 22 years of war that followed. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in Nairobi on 9 January 2005, ended that war and gave the south its own government and army. Three weeks after becoming Sudan’s first vice-president, the SPLA leader John Garang was killed on 30 July 2005 with six colleagues and seven Ugandan crew when the Ugandan presidential Mi-172 helicopter carrying him back from Rwakitura crashed in southern Sudan. The official explanation was poor visibility; President Museveni later suggested there might have been an external factor.
2010–2011: Mi-17s before a flag
According to Wikipedia’s account, the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly formally created an air force on 24 June 2008, though it had no aircraft. In May 2010 the SPLA announced a "nucleus" air force and navy, and in August 2010 ordered Mi-17 helicopters from Kazan in Russia, reported at US$75 million. Eight were delivered to Juba in December 2010 and two more in January 2011, and President Salva Kiir launched the air force on 11 January 2011, during the week of the referendum in which 98.83 per cent voted for secession. South Sudan became independent on 9 July 2011. When the Heglig crisis with Sudan broke out in March 2012, the air war was again one-sided: Sudanese An-26s, MiG-29s and Su-25s bombed Bentiu, Rubkona and the Unity oilfields, and South Sudan claimed to have shot down a MiG-29 on 4 April 2012, which Sudan called a fabrication. No South Sudanese air operations in that crisis are described in the sources reached.
2013–2016: gunships and jets in a civil war
The civil war that began in Juba on 15 December 2013 turned the helicopter force into a combat arm. The UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan reported that the government procured Mi-24 attack helicopters from early 2014, and in January 2016 counted at least three operational with a fourth awaiting payment. The Panel recorded Mi-24 attacks on Shilluk positions around Malakal in 2015, a Mi-24 kept at the Paloich oil-field airstrip, Mi-24s over Wau in April 2016, and two Mi-24s that crossed about 6 km into the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 17 August 2016 in pursuit of SPLM/A-IO forces. Local officials blamed an unidentified gunship for 50 deaths in Mundri West in November 2015, a figure the army did not address. L-39 jets also appeared: the army announced two jet fighters over Juba for Independence Day in July 2016, and the Panel documented L-39s with photographs, though the First Vice-President denied in September 2016 that South Sudan had any.
Who flew them, and who paid: the UN Panel’s findings
How the aircraft were bought, and who flew them, is told differently by different sources. The UN Panel found that the Mi-24s came from the Ukrainian company Motor Sich for US$42.8 million, under a Ukrainian export licence, with a first instalment of US$21 million routed through the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining; it also found a Diamond 42 reconnaissance aircraft operating from Juba military airport from July 2015 and two helicopter hangars contracted for US$16.4 million. The journalist Peter Martell, as summarised on Wikipedia, writes that Erik Prince sold South Sudan three Mi-24s and two L-39s, with Hungarian mercenary pilots, for US$43 million. The two accounts are not reconciled in any source reached. The government has not published its own account of these purchases, and in its replies to the Panel in 2016 it denied having L-39s at all.
2018–2024: the peace deal and a quiet fleet
The war was formally ended by the Revitalised Agreement of 12 September 2018, and the army was renamed the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces in the same month, after a first renaming had been announced on 16 May 2017. A unity government was formed on 22 February 2020, and in June 2020 Maj. Gen. Samson Mabior was named air force commander. For the next four years the air arm was rarely in the news. The UN Panel of Experts kept reporting on arms purchases, but its 2023 final report discussed armoured vehicles and boats, not aircraft. The fleet has never been published by the government; Wikipedia’s table lists six Mi-24/Mi-35s, seven Mi-17s, two An-26s, two L-410s, two AW109s and a Boeing 727, but FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory, as read, has no South Sudan entry, and none of those numbers could be checked against an official or IISS figure.
2025–2026: bombing returns to Upper Nile and Jonglei
Fighting in Nasir in March 2025, during which a UN helicopter evacuating SSPDF soldiers was attacked on 7 March, brought air power back. Uganda sent troops at Juba’s request, and local officials and witnesses blamed both the SSPDF and Uganda for strikes on Nasir that Radio Tamazuj’s sources said killed at least 21 people on 16–17 March. Human Rights Watch found that government incendiary weapons killed at least 58 people in Nasir, Longechuk and Ulang in early March, and that a 3 May 2025 bombardment of Old Fangak, including the MSF hospital, killed seven. Strikes followed in Warrap and Jonglei; MSF facilities at Pieri and Lankien were hit in December 2025 and February 2026, and MSF closed Lankien hospital, saying government forces were believed to be the only party able to bomb from the air. The Upper Nile governor said in December 2025 that areas attacking government forces "will be bombed". The SSPDF has not published its own account of these operations.
The South Sudan Air Force in numbers
Servicio
- Nombre oficial
- Fuerza Aérea de Sudán del SurThe name used by Wikipedia and in the SSPDF’s 2018 structure (ground forces, air force, air defence forces, presidential guard). The SPLA spokesman spoke of the "SPLA Air Force" in 2016. No official SSPDF website could be reached; English is the official language
- Fundado
- 24 June 2008 (on paper); launched 11 January 2011Created by the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly without aircraft; first Mi-17s delivered in December 2010; launched by President Salva Kiir in January 2011. These dates come from Wikipedia; its original source (an archived aviation news page) could not be read
- Parte de
- South Sudan People’s Defence ForcesThe SPLA was renamed the SSPDF in September 2018, after a renaming to South Sudan Defence Forces had been announced on 16 May 2017. The SPLA itself dates from 16 May 1983
- Sede
- JubaJuba International Airport (HJJJ) is shared between civil traffic, the military and UNMISS; the UN Panel calls the military side Juba military airport
- Comandante
- Maj. Gen. Samson Mabior (named June 2020)Not confirmed as still in post in 2026; Wikipedia gives James Kong Kong from December 2017
- Comandante en jefe
- President Salva Kiir MayarditCommander-in-chief of the SSPDF; South Sudan became independent on 9 July 2011
Fortaleza
- Personal
- Wikipedia describes "an unknown number of personnel"; no IISS or government figure was reached
- helicópteros de ataque
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- Mil Mi-24/Mi-35 — 3–6
Sources disagree: the UN Panel counted at least three operational in January 2016 and one more awaited; Peter Martell (via Wikipedia) gives three; Wikipedia’s inventory gives six. Still flying in 2024–2026 according to local reports of gunship flights and strikes
- Helicópteros de transporte
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- Mil Mi-17, Mi-172 and Mi-17V-5 — about 7 (Wikipedia)
- AgustaWestland AW109 — 2 (Wikipedia)
Ten delivered in December 2010 and January 2011; Wikipedia’s inventory lists seven, one for VIP transport. No official count
- Ala fija
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- Antonov An-26 — 2
- Let L-410 Turbolet — 2
- Boeing 727 (VIP) — 1
All counts are Wikipedia’s; none could be checked against an official or IISS figure. FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory, as read, has no South Sudan entry
- Chorros
- L-39: status disputedTwo L-39s according to Martell (via Wikipedia); documented by the UN Panel in 2016 and denied by the government. Wikipedia’s service article lists the type as retired, its L-39 article as still in service
- Drones
- Reported, type unknownA drone was among the aircraft the Fangak commissioner described on 3 May 2025, and the Vice President referred to drones on 8 May 2025. No type, number or supplier has been published
Infraestructura
- Base principal
- Juba International AirportRunway 13/31, 3,100 m, elevation 461 m (Wikipedia, not the AIP). Two helicopter hangars were contracted for US$16.4 million according to the UN Panel
- Forward airstrips
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- Paloich (Upper Nile) — Mi-24 kept there in 2015 (UN Panel)
- Bor — gunship stopover, October 2024
- Malakal — gunship operations 2015 and 2024
Airfields named in connection with air-force aircraft in the sources reached; none is a dedicated air base
- UN arms monitoring
- UN Panel of Experts on South SudanThe Panel reported the Mi-24, L-39 and Diamond 42 purchases in 2016–2017; its 2023 final report records no aircraft
- Foreign air support
- UgandaUgandan troops deployed at South Sudan’s request in March 2025 (HRW); the Uganda People’s Defence Air Force flew aid airdrops to Nasir in May 2025, and local officials attributed some March 2025 strikes to Ugandan aircraft
How the South Sudan Air Force is organised
The air arm of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces, one of four branches beside the ground forces, the air defence forces and the presidential guard, has its headquarters and main base at Juba International Airport. Mi-24 gunships, three to six depending on the source, are its combat aircraft, beside about seven Mi-17 transport helicopters; the L-39 jets the UN Panel of Experts documented in 2016 were denied by the government, and their status is disputed. The government has never published its fleet, its units or which aircraft are based where.
Fuerza Aérea de Sudán del Sur
The air arm of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces, created on paper on 24 June 2008 and launched by President Salva Kiir on 11 January 2011, with its headquarters at Juba. Maj. Gen. Samson Mabior was named Air Force Commander in June 2020; no later appointment was found, so whether he is still in post in 2026 is not confirmed. The President is commander-in-chief.
Mi-24 gunships
Bought from early 2014, according to the UN Panel of Experts, which traced the purchase to Motor Sich of Ukraine for US$42.8 million; Peter Martell, as summarised on Wikipedia, has Erik Prince selling three Mi-24s and two L-39s with Hungarian pilots for US$43 million. Counts range from three to six, none official. The Panel found one kept at the Paloich oil field in 2015; gunship strikes were reported again in 2024–2026, without the types being identified.
Mi-17 and AW109 helicopters
The air force’s first aircraft: ten Mi-17s ordered from Kazan in August 2010 and delivered to Juba in December 2010 and January 2011. Wikipedia’s inventory lists about seven, one used for VIP transport, and two AW109s; none of these counts is official.
Aviones de transporte de ala fija
Wikipedia’s inventory lists two An-26s, two L-410s and a VIP Boeing 727. Delivery dates are not published, none of the numbers could be checked against an official or IISS figure, and FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory, as read, has no South Sudan entry.
L-39 jets
Status disputed. The UN Panel documented L-39s with photographs in 2016, two according to Martell, and the army announced two jet fighters for the Independence Day air show that July; the First Vice-President denied on 28 September 2016 that South Sudan had any. Wikipedia lists the type as retired in one article and in service in another.
Diamond DA42 and drones
The UN Panel observed a Diamond 42 at Juba military airport from July 2015, "providing advanced integrated aerial reconnaissance and targeting capabilities"; whether it still flies was not found. The Fangak commissioner described a drone among the aircraft that struck Old Fangak on 3 May 2025, but no type, number or supplier has been published.
What the South Sudan Air Force flies today
Cada tipo está sujeto a cargos, vinculado a su página en el Libro de las Bestias, cuando existe. Las cifras corresponden a aeronaves registradas, no a aeronaves disponibles en un día determinado.
| Tipo | Role | En servicio | Desde | Unidades | Notas | |
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| Mil Mi-24 / Mi-35En servicio | Helicóptero de ataque | 2014 | 3–6.
MásThe UN Panel counted at least three operational in January 2016 with a fourth awaiting payment; Peter Martell (via Wikipedia) gives three; Wikipedia’s inventory gives six, as Mi-35s; Wikipedia’s SSPDF article says four were bought from Ukraine in 2015. No official figure. |
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| Mil Mi-17, Mi-172 and Mi-17V-5En servicio | Helicóptero de transporte y VIP | 7 | 2010 | Wikipedia’s inventory figure; ten were delivered in 2010–2011. Not confirmed by an official or IISS source. | ||
| AgustaWestland AW109En servicio | Helicóptero utilitario ligero | 2 | Wikipedia’s inventory figure; not corroborated. | |||
| Antonov An-26En servicio | Transporte | 2 | Wikipedia’s inventory figure; not corroborated. | |||
| Deje el turbocompresor L-410En servicio | Transporte ligero | 2 | Wikipedia’s inventory figure; not corroborated. | |||
| Boeing 727En servicio | Transporte VIP | 1 | Wikipedia’s inventory figure; not corroborated. | |||
| Diamante DA42En servicio | Reconnaissance and targeting | 2015 | Number not stated; seen from July 2015. |
Every type the South Sudan Air Force has retired
2 types, from the Aero L-39 Albatros to the Aero L-39 Albatros. Las cifras máximas corresponden a las aeronaves puestas en servicio durante toda su vida útil, no al número total de efectivos de la flota en una fecha concreta.
| Tipo | Role | Cima | Servido | Reemplazado por | Notas | |
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| Aero L-39 Albatros | Entrenador a reacción y ataque ligero | 2 | 2016– | Two according to Peter Martell (via Wikipedia); the army announced two jet fighters for the July 2016 Independence Day flypast. | ||
| Beechcraft 1900 | Transporte ligero | Número no encontrado. |
Where the South Sudan Air Force flies from
Los marcadores negros indican bases activas; ninguno de los aeródromos que aparecen en la lista ha cerrado. Juba International Airport, where the first Mi-17s were delivered in December 2010, is the only base the sources describe, its military side sharing one runway with airliners and the UN mission. Malakal, Paloich and Bor are civil or oil-field airstrips named in reports of the air force’s gunships; the UN Panel found a Mi-24 kept at Paloich in 2015 to guard the oil installations. Coordinates come from Wikipedia, as the South Sudan AIP could not be reached.
| Base | OACI | Estado | Pista | Unidades y aeronaves |
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| Bor AirportJonglei | HSBR | Activo | 01/191,280 mdirt | |
| Juba International AirportCentral Equatoria | HJJJ | Activo | 13/313.100 m | |
| Malakal AirportUpper Nile | HSSM | Activo | 05/232.000 metros | |
| Paloich AirportUpper Nile (Melut County) | HSFA | Activo | 01/192.500 m |
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Who is stationed where in the South Sudan Air Force
Unidades voladoras por base, unidades actuales primero. South Sudan publishes no order of battle: no squadron names or aircraft counts by base appear in the sources, so the air force at Juba is listed as one headquarters and helicopter force. The Mi-24 detachment the UN Panel found at Paloich in 2015 is listed as former because no later report of it was found.
- SPLA Mi-24 detachment2015–
- Mil Mi-24
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South Sudan Air Force milestones, 1914 to today
16 May: the Sudan People’s Liberation Army is founded when Battalion 105 attacks Sudanese army forces at Bor. No SPLA air arm is recorded for the 1983–2005 war.
9 January: Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Nairobi. 30 July: John Garang is killed with 13 others in the crash of the Ugandan presidential Mi-172.
24 June: the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly formally creates an air force, still without aircraft (Wikipedia).
May: the SPLA announces a nucleus air force. August: Mi-17s ordered from Kazan, reported at US$75 million. December: eight delivered to Juba.
January: two more Mi-17s arrive; President Kiir launches the air force on 11 January during the independence referendum. 9 July: independence.
Heglig crisis with Sudan: Sudanese aircraft bomb Bentiu and Rubkona; South Sudan claims a MiG-29 shot down on 4 April, which Sudan denies.
15 December: civil war begins in Juba. 27 December: Riek Machar accuses Ugandan aircraft of bombing his forces at Bor.
The government begins buying Mi-24 attack helicopters, according to the UN Panel of Experts.
Mi-24s strike opposition positions around Malakal; 18 May: the government denies an opposition claim to have shot one down. July: a Diamond 42 begins flying from Juba. November: 50 reported killed in a gunship attack in Mundri West.
April: Mi-24s over Wau. 7–9 July: two jets fly over Juba for Independence Day. 17 August: two Mi-24s cross into the DRC. 28 September: the First Vice-President denies South Sudan has L-39s.
16 May: renaming to South Sudan Defence Forces announced.
12 September: the Revitalised Agreement ends the civil war. September: the army becomes the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces.
22 February: unity government formed. June: Maj. Gen. Samson Mabior named Air Force Commander.
July: an Upper Nile MP complains of daily gunship flights over Nasir. 20 October: a gunship makes an emergency landing in Bor; the army denies it.
March: fighting in Nasir, a UN helicopter attacked on 7 March, and air strikes in Upper Nile; Ugandan troops deploy. 3 May: Old Fangak and its MSF hospital bombed. December: strikes on Pieri and Lankien.
3 February: bomb hits the MSF hospital warehouse at Lankien; MSF closes the hospital in April. June: ceasefire monitors investigate reported bombing in Panyijiar.
Every war the South Sudan Air Force has fought
Salidas y pérdidas donde consta en el registro, y un espacio en blanco honesto donde no.
- Heglig crisis 2012 No South Sudanese air operations are described in the sources reached; the air war was flown by Sudan
- South Sudanese Civil War 2013–2018 Close air support and attack by Mi-24 gunships, with L-39 jets and a Diamond 42 reconnaissance aircraft reported; Mi-17 transport
- Upper Nile and Jonglei fighting 2025– Air strikes by gunship helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft against opposition-held areas, with drones reported
Who built the South Sudan Air Force fleet
Cada empresa que fabrica los aviones que aparecen en esta página tiene su propia página: la historia, todos los tipos que ha fabricado, las cifras y las demás fuerzas aéreas que los utilizan.
Flota actual y pedidos
Mil, AgustaWestland, Antonov, Boeing, Aeronaves Diamond, Dejen que Kunovice
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- UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan: final report, S/2016/70 (January 2016)Paras 52, 55, 75, 78–79: Mi-24 attacks near Malakal in 2015; a Mi-24 kept at Paloich under SPLA headquarters control; at least three operational Mi-24s and one more awaited, bought from Motor Sich of Ukraine for $42.8 million, first instalment of $21 million paid through the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining; Diamond 42 reconnaissance aircraft at Juba military airport from July 2015; two helicopter hangars contracted for $16.4 million.
- UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan: report S/2016/963 (15 November 2016)Para 49: L-39 jets documented with photographs and eyewitness accounts; First Vice-President Taban Deng Gai denied their presence on 28 September 2016. Para 12: two Mi-24s crossed about 6 km into the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 17 August 2016 attacking SPLM/A-IO positions.
- UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan: final report S/2017/326 (April 2017)Para 43: offensives supported by Mi-24 attack helicopters "that the government has procured since early 2014". Contains a section headed "L-39 jet acquisitions", whose text could not be read in the copy reached.
- UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan: interim report S/2017/979 (20 November 2017)Para 36: Mi-24s deployed in Wau town in April 2016; the Panel concluded this would not have happened without approval from senior officials including the then Chief of General Staff, Paul Malong.
- UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan: final report S/2023/294 (26 April 2023)Read for aircraft: the arms-procurement chapter covers armoured vehicles and boats; no aircraft or air strikes are discussed in the text reached.
- Eye Radio: SPLA Air Force to conduct air show (7 July 2016)SPLA spokesman Brig. Lul Ruai Koang announced that two jet fighters would fly over Juba from 7 to 9 July 2016 for the fifth Independence Day and asked the public "not to panic".
- Eye Radio: SSPDF helicopter returns to Juba after emergency landing in Bor; army denies report (21 October 2024)A gunship flying from Malakal to Juba landed on Baidit Road in Bor on 20 October 2024 in bad weather and left from Bor airport on 21 October; confirmed by the Jonglei information minister, denied by the SSPDF spokesman after consulting "our Air Force commander".
- Eye Radio: Nasir residents in panic over daily SSPDF helicopters patrol: MP (18 July 2024)MP Gatwech Lam Puoch on gunships over Nasir; the SSPDF spokesman called them routine flights.
- Radio Tamazuj: UPDATED: Airstrike kills 21 civilians in Nasir (17 March 2025)At least 21 civilians killed according to local officials and residents; witnesses blamed the SSPDF and the Ugandan army; the SSPDF could not be reached.
- Eye Radio: Renewed airstrike in Nasir injures woman and child, Commissioner confirms (19 March 2025)Nasir commissioner James Gatluak Lew: 11 bombs at about 03:30 on 19 March 2025 from "an Antonov aircraft from Uganda"; a woman and a two-year-old injured. No army reply in the article.
- Eye Radio: UN reports SSPDF commander, several soldiers, UN personnel killed in Nasir helicopter attack (7 March 2025)UNMISS statement by Nicholas Haysom on the attack on a UN helicopter evacuating SSPDF soldiers from Nasir.
- Eye Radio: SSPDF and SPLA-IO trade blames over Wunaliet airstrike, Nyamini withdrawal (25 March 2025)SPLA-IO spokesman Col. Lam Paul Gabriel accused the SSPDF of bombing the Wunaliet cantonment site near Juba on the evening of 24 March 2025; the SSPDF spokesman said he was gathering information.
- Eye Radio: 4 killed, 25 injured in Fangak airstrikes, including 9-month-old — Official (3 May 2025)Fangak commissioner Biel Butros Biel: two gunships, a drone and a fixed-wing aircraft struck Old Fangak at about 04:00 on 3 May 2025; four killed and 25 wounded; MSF pharmacy burned; the SSPDF spokesman said he would respond when authorised.
- Human Rights Watch: World Report 2026, South SudanHRW findings for 2025: indiscriminate government aerial bombardment of opposition-held areas; at least 58 killed and 17 severely burnt by government incendiary weapons in Nasir, Longechuk and Ulang in early March; seven killed and at least 20 injured in the 3 May bombardment of the MSF hospital and market in Old Fangak; Ugandan troops deployed at South Sudan’s request.
- Eye Radio: MSF Pieri facility in Jonglei hit in airstrike (4 December 2025)A gunship helicopter fired on Pieri on the morning of 3 December 2025, hitting the MSF facility without casualties; strikes also reported at Lankien.
- Eye Radio: Jonglei civil society condemns reported airstrike killing 26 civilians in Nyirol (30 December 2025)The Jonglei State Civil Network reported 26 civilians killed, including 11 children and 10 women, in a strike on Lankien on 29 December 2025 and blamed the SSPDF, which had not responded.
- Eye Radio: Governor Dollar defends bombardments, rejects ethnic targeting claims (7 December 2025)Upper Nile governor Jacob Dollar Ruot: places that attack government forces "will be bombed"; bombing has not targeted any one community.
- Eye Radio: SSPDF airstrike hits MSF hospital in Lankien of Jonglei state (4 February 2026)Strike late on 3 February 2026 destroyed the MSF hospital warehouse at Lankien; MSF said government forces are the only armed party able to carry out aerial attacks; no government comment.
- Eye Radio: MSF permanently closes Jonglei’s Lankien hospital after February airstrike (29 April 2026)MSF closed Lankien hospital after 31 years; it could not independently confirm responsibility but said government forces were believed to be the only actor with aerial bombing capability in the area; at least 12 violent incidents affected MSF since the start of 2025 and four hospitals were shut.
- Eye Radio: CTSAM-VM reports at least six civilians killed in recent ceasefire violations (23 June 2026)The ceasefire monitoring body was still investigating allegations of aerial bombardment in Panyijiar County, Unity state.
- Eye Radio: Gov’t denies shooting down of its gunship (18 May 2015)Opposition forces claimed a government gunship shot down at Malakal; the Upper Nile information minister and the SPLA spokesman denied it.
- Eye Radio: 50 killed in Mundri gunship attack (28 November 2015)Western Equatoria information minister Daniel Ezbon: 50 dead and over 100 wounded in a gunship attack in Mundri West County; the gunship was not identified and the army had not commented.
- Eye Radio: Kiir reshuffles top SSPDF commanders, appoints ex-SPLA-IO general (12 June 2020)Maj. Gen. Samson Mabior named Air Force Commander; Lt. Gen. Chol Thon Balok named deputy chief of defence forces.
- Eye Radio: ‘Gunships and drones will come for you,’ VP Taban warns peace spoilers (9 May 2025)Vice President Taban Deng Gai at Awerial, Lakes state, on 8 May 2025 warned that gunships and drones would be used against attackers.
- Eye Radio: Ugandan Air Force delivers aid in joint emergency operation in Nasir and Ulang (30 May 2025)Uganda People’s Defence Air Force airdrops of food to Nasir on 24–25 May 2025; no South Sudanese aircraft mentioned.
- Eye Radio: SSPDF conducts airstrikes as tensions rise in Warrap State (5 June 2025)An SSPDF helicopter fired on armed youth in Tonj North and Gogrial East on 5 June 2025, injuring one man; the Warrap information minister, Mamer Bak, described it as intimidation requested by the state government.
- FlightGlobal: Fuerzas Aéreas Mundiales 2025Checked for South Sudan: no South Sudan entry was found in the text reached, so no FlightGlobal count is used.
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