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

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...

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

March 12, 2025 (ABYEI)– Traditional authorities in Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan, have rejected pressure to join the ongoing war in Sudan, citing its negative impact on ...

The leaders, representing the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms and the Misseriya, made the commitment after an 11-day training session held in Todach, north of Abyei town, from February 16 to 26.

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ...

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa ... Kiir is from the rival Dinka ethnic group. On Saturday two United Nations helicopters operating ...