South Sudan

In 2024, South Sudan reported clearing almost 0.58km2 of anti-personnel (AP) mined area, almost the same output as the previous year. In contrast, 159 AP mines were destroyed in 2024, an increase of more than one half on 2023. South Sudan will not clear all AP mined areas by its first Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) Article 5 extended deadline of 9 July 2026. In May 2025, it requested a four-year extension to 9 July 2030, and it revised its request in August 2025. The request was due to be considered at the Twenty-Second Meeting of States Parties in December 2025. Implementation of the South Sudan National Mine Action Strategy 2024–28 has been slow given competing priorities and a drop in funding.

• South Sudan should ensure consistent financial support for the National Mine Action Authority (NMAA) and start to fund mine action operations directly.

• South Sudan and its mine action partners should continue to support the NMAA to take on greater responsibilities and increase the number of national deminers.

• South Sudan should develop a resource mobilisation strategy.

• South Sudan should continue to work towards establishing an evidence-based baseline of AP contamination, and ensure that it consistently disaggregates AP mine contamination and release data from other mined areas and explosive remnants of war (ERW).

• South Sudan should continue to strengthen gender mainstreaming across its mine action programme, also an aim of the new National Mine Action Strategy, and support marginalised groups to participate in its mine action programme.

Click here to download the "Clearing the Mines 2025" report for South Sudan.