Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva ...

A Nuer militia with ties to Machar overran a government army base in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, on March 4th. Machar has accused Kiir’s forces of initiating attacks on his troops.

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

The White Army, mostly from the Nuer ethnic group, fought alongside Machar's forces in the 2013-2018 civil war that pitted them against predominantly ethnic Dinka troops loyal to Kiir. Machar's ...

The arrests followed heavy clashes in recent weeks in the strategic northern town of Nasir between national forces and the White Army militia, a loosely-organised group mostly from the Nuer ...

The White Army, which mostly comprises armed youth from the Nuer ethnic group, fought alongside Machar's forces in the 2013-2018 civil war that pitted them against predominantly ethnic Dinka ...

Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba, and later rebels loyal to him came close to capturing ...

a loose band of armed youths in the region from the same ethnic Nuer community as the vice-president. Kiir urged calm late Friday and told citizens there would be no return to war, but ...

a loose band of armed youths in the region from the same ethnic Nuer community as the vice-president. A government garrison in the region was overrun by the rebels on Tuesday, the information ...

Earlier this week, South Sudan’s information minister, Michael Makuei Lueth, blamed the violence, in part, on the White Army, a Nuer armed group operating in Upper Nile. He accused the group of ...