The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s ...

Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan by Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for OCHA, on behalf of Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for ...

Kiir belongs to the Dinka, South Sudan’s largest ethnic group, while Machar is a ... Sudan’s current war has been spilling into the conflict-ridden peripheries of South Sudan, referencing ...

Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018. South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, agreed to a ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia he accuses of allying with his ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. But the country slid into a civil war in ...

In the early years of South Sudan’s independence ... From the outbreak of conflict, armed groups targeted civilians along ethnic lines, committed rape and sexual violence, destroyed property ...

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 ...

Credit: AP/Brian Inganga His rivalry with Machar, compounded by ethnic divisions ... without being paid. Conflict in neighboring Sudan has affected landlocked South Sudan’s exports of oil.

The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict ... largely along ethnic lines, left ...