The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...

A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a ...

The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia he accuses of allying with his ...

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

A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 ...

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

Since Tuesday, soldiers of the South Sudanese army have surrounded Machar’s home in Juba, according to members of the vice ...

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 ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines.

which mostly comprises armed ethnic Nuer youths who fought alongside Machar's forces in the 2013-2018 war against predominantly ethnic Dinka troops loyal to Kiir. The party denies the allegations.