Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in South Sudan: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
South Sudan’s surveillance powers are set out in the National Security Service Act of 2014, which the legislature amended in 2024. As printed in 2014, the Act charges the service with monitoring frequencies, wireless systems, publications, broadcasting stations and postal services, allows service officers to arrest without a warrant for offences against the state and takes other warrants from a High Court judge.
The National Security Service Act, 2014, as printed by the Ministry of Justice, charges the service to detect and prevent cyber crimes and other dangers (s. 13(7)) and to monitor frequencies, wireless systems, publications, broadcasting stations and postal services in respect of security interests (s. 13(11)).
It places no stated duty on telecommunications or internet providers and sets no retention period. Whether the Act or any telecommunications statute reaches a VPN operator is not established.
The National Legislative Assembly passed amendments to the Act on 3 July 2024; according to International IDEA, the amended Act became law by default when the President neither signed nor vetoed it. The sections described here are those of the 2014 print.
As printed in 2014, the Act sets out no power to block websites or services. It defines crimes and offences against the state (s. 7) as those in the Penal Code together with espionage, sabotage, terrorism or subversion, unlawful efforts to overthrow the constitutional system of government, and foreign-influenced activity that is detrimental to South Sudan’s interests and clandestine or deceptive.
Under section 54 of the 2014 print, a service officer may arrest without a warrant a person found committing, or reasonably suspected of committing, an offence against the state; the person must reach a magistrate within 24 hours. Section 55 lets the Director General apply to a High Court judge for a warrant valid for up to one month at a time, with appeal to the Court of Appeal within 14 days.
The Act provides for an annual report by the Minister to the National Legislature (s. 19) and a Complaints Board chaired by a person who is or is qualified to be a High Court judge, appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, with the Service’s head of legal department as a member (s. 20). The service may cooperate with friendly organs in the exchange of information (s. 13(10)).
Human Rights Watch noted in 2014 that the bill left unclear when warrants are required and urged warrants for all acts affecting protected rights, surveillance included. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
South Sudan
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
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Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
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