Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil ...

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

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, ...

Peace and Security Council (PSC) was this week warned South Sudan is “on the brink of relapse into civil war” by Nicholas ...

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

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, Nicholas Haysom, on Tuesday, said the gains made ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war lasted ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government ...

Sporadic fighting has broken out in South Sudan in recent days as tension threatens to pull Kiir and Machar back into conflict. The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an ...

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...