As the country marks two years of war this week, the question that looms large is whether hope for a democratic future still lives or has it vanished amid the gunfire and violence of war?

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

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the ...

What began as a power struggle between two military factions is now transforming into a much wider conflict, marked by ...

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

Two years since the start of the war in Sudan, the news remains exceedingly grim.The world's most damaging displacement crisis is now happening amid the worst humanitarian funding situation in decades ...

Hunger in South Sudan's northeast has reached a critical tipping point, with nearly 7.7 million people facing severe food insecurity as conflict escalates, the UN's emergency food relief agency warned ...

The ongoing crisis in South Sudan has been long in the making – its roots lie in a faltering peace implementation process.

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the Trump administration has ...

More than a year after Pope Francis visited South Sudan, the country is still plagued with high levels of violent crime and armed conflict between ethnic groups.

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 ...