In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Born in 1951 to a family of cattle herders, Kiir joined the southern rebellion against the Sudanese government in the 1960s in what would become Africa's longest civil war. Tensions between Kiir's ...

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that ...

Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ...

When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus of worldwide congratulations and celebrations, ...

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

In a testimony to the UN Security Council last week, the UNICEF chief disclosed that the ongoing conflict has evolved into the world's most severe humanitarian emergency, affecting 30 million ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, a champion of environmental protections and progressive ideals who took on principled but often futile causes during a two-decade career in ...

Senior Adviser, Crisis Management Initiative; International Affairs Fellow in Residence, 2010-2011 Across eight years, two administrations, and the direct interventions of a deputy secretary of ...

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) also first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said that Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan’s capital Juba to “secure it” as tensions between President ...

If surging tensions between South Sudan’s president and first vice president are not addressed on time, the country risks returning to 'full-scale civil war,' says analyst Edmund Yakani 'The ...

The European Union delegation in South Sudan has issued a stark warning about the country’s deteriorating security situation, particularly in the wake of recent clashes in Nasir County, Upper Nile.