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 return to civil war in the world's youngest nation. In early March 2025, ...

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 ...

March 7, 2025 (JUBA) – South Sudan risks a return to full-blown war following ... be supplying the Nuer militia, exploiting historical ethnic divisions between Kiir’s Dinka and Machar ...

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

Crudely speaking, these pit the Dinka, Kiir's ethnic group and ... Many South Sudanese, including many Nuer, have joined Sudan's war on both sides. Local alliances could shift frequently.

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.

a Nuer, of collaborating with the White Army, which fought alongside Machar's forces during the civil war against the predominantly ethnic Dinka troops loyal to President Salva Kiir. Machar's ...