South Sudan president sacks Upper Nile governor after clashes with ethnic militia
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...
How South Sudan Returned to the Brink of War
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 party partially withdraws from peace process
A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 ...
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Oil-rich South Sudan 'on precipice' of new civil war
The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again ...
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Uganda deploys special forces to South Sudan to protect the government as fears of civil war grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines.
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US orders non-emergency staff to leave South Sudan as tension rises
On Sunday, the US State Department said that fighting was ongoing in South Sudan between various political and ethnic groups ...
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Instability in South Sudan
Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...
Sudan's military says it has retaken Khartoum's Republican Palace, seat of country's government
Sudan's military has reportedly retaken the Republican Palace in Khartoum after almost 2 years of fighting, marking a ...
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Fighting flares in South Sudan: Is the 2018 peace deal in danger?
In 2013, South Sudan descended into full-scale war when Kiir, a Dinka, fired Machar as vice president after escalating rows between them. Machar is from the Nuer ethnic group, South Sudan’s ...