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

South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an ...

Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it", Uganda's military chief said on Tuesday, but ...

Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil ...

A bloc of East African nations on Wednesday called for South Sudan's government to release detained officials and lift ...

According to Dr Remember Miamingi, a South Sudanese governance expert and human rights advocate, Dr Machar’s power hinged on two key pillars: unwavering ethnic Nuer support, which fuelled his military ...

An airstrike by South Sudan's airforce killed at least 19 people in Nasir, intensifying fears of a renewed civil war. The ...

At least 50,000 people have been displaced in South Sudan since February as forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar have clashed in the northwest, a UN agency said ...

Tensions have been mounting in Nasir County, Upper Nile State, between forces allied to Kiir and Machar, threatening to undermine a fragile peace-sharing agreement.

An airstrike by South Sudan's airforce killed at least 19 people in the country's east, residents said, less than two weeks after government forces withdrew from the area following intense fighting ...

Violence is worsening in South Sudan according to the Vatican representative to the African country, saying the world’s ...