The 2013-2018 war was marked by ethnic divisions, with Kiir’s Dinka-led forces clashing against Machar’s Nuer-aligned troops.

South Sudan is admittedly a frustrating portfolio for policymakers. The country’s leadership is corrupt and unreliable. Too ...

Mediators from the African Union have arrived in South Sudan to prevent a new civil war following the house arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar. President Kiir accuses Machar of inciting ...

African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after ...

Kenya's Special Envoy to South Sudan, Raila Odinga, has revealed that he was denied access to South Sudan's First Vice President, Riek Machar, who is currently under house arrest following a deadly ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from ...

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

The flight was rescuing wounded government soldiers who had clashed with an armed group in Upper Nile State in the northeast. A day later, the United States said it was removing all nonemergency ...

In South Sudan's Akobo County, located in the Upper Nile region, 1,300 cholera cases have been reported in the past four weeks, according to MSF. It said recent violence in Upper Nile between the ...

They had been trying to leave Nasir, a town engulfed in fighting in the oil-producing Upper Nile state near the border with Sudan (see map). Mr Kiir has had several of his rival’s allies ...

One of the ministers has since been released. The arrests followed clashes in the Upper Nile state between government forces and a militia known as the White Army. It had fought alongside Machar ...