Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

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

South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said Thursday a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s government on Monday asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an armed group accused of overrunning a ...

The agency has also reported fighting in Western Equatoria state in the southwestern part of the country. Earlier this week, South Sudan’s information minister, Michael Makuei Lueth, blamed the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s ...

US urges South Sudan to release Vice President Machar UN warns of potential resurgence of ethnic conflict Peace deal between Kiir and Machar at risk of collapse African Union, regional bloc ...

UNMISS, which first deployed to South Sudan in 2011, added that the warring parties, which it also did not name, used “heavy weaponry” and fighting had also been reported in Western Equatoria ...

Analysts are urging the international community to push for peace in the fragile country. In South Sudan, the world's youngest country, a fragile power-sharing deal is teetering. On Thursday ...