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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The war in Sudan is spilling over into South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, exacerbating internal divisions and widespread ...

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

NAIROBI - 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 ...

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.