A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return to civil war in the world’s youngest nation. In early March 2025, ...

Sudan’s army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

South Sudanese authorities have arrested at least 22 political and military personnel in the wake of violent clashes that ...

Tensions are spiraling in South Sudan amid escalating militia violence in Upper Nile state in the east of the country, cabinet reshuffles, and the arrests of several senior officials in the capital, ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, regional mediators are scrambling, and a US evacuation is underway.

The deployment of Ugandan troops to South Sudan underscores rising tensions in the oil-producing country that has been ...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, announced on Friday the completion of arrangements to form ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir ... arrested after an armed group allied to him overran an army base in the country’s north. Machar, whose political rivalry with President Salva Kiir has in the ...

FILE - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5 ...

Machar, whose political rivalry with President Salva ... the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan and cripples the Joint Defence Board, a vital institution ...

It added that such actions "complicate the situation in Sudan, hinder ongoing efforts to unify political visions and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis". Egypt also called on "all Sudanese forces to ...