NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes ...

Catholic bishops in South Sudan offered to mediate between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar to ...

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Youssouf Ali, has announced the deployment of a high-level delegation from the AU Panel of the Wise to South Sudan as part of efforts to ...

The South Sudanese government has refuted claims that President Salva Kiir directed Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to meet with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni following his visit to ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling "over the abyss" ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as Upper Nile state governor, according to a ...

Norway has temporarily closed its embassy in Juba, South Sudan, citing worsening security. President Salva Kiir's dismissal ...

Speaking later on Thursday in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists that Secretary-General António ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...

The party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar said on Wednesday it was trying to locate him after the defence ...

Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is alarmed by the escalating armed clashes in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, which have displaced thousands and restricted access to healthcare ...