The African Union Commission (AUC) said it is sending a high-level mediation team to South Sudan amid escalating tensions ...

AUC Chairperson Mahmoud Youssouf dispatches a high-level delegation to engage with stakeholders to de-escalate tension and ...

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

The UN warns that South Sudan has been pushed closer to conflict by the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar. He and the ...

Misinformation and online hate speech are fuelling panic and division in South Sudan at a time of acute political tensions ...

Amid rising tensions in Africa’s youngest country and reports that the country’s first vice president was arrested, Bishop ...

Can Salva Kiir change course and lead South Sudan to stability, or is the nation doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated, the government said on Friday - the ...

The South Sudan government said on Friday that First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he ...

Gen Kainerugaba did not give reasons for the deployment to the neighbouring state but said that any move against Kiir "is a declaration of war against Uganda". South Sudan's government has not yet ...

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