Fierce fighting continues in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Government army troops from the south have now joined forces already stationed near the presidential palace, which remains under the ...

South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an ...

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital on Wednesday and ...

The U.N. is warning of “an alarming regression that could erase years of hard-won progress” in South Sudan. The latest ...

"We shall protect the entire territory of South Sudan like it was our own," Gen Kainerugaba had written on the social media platform X. Uganda's army spokesperson Felix Kulayigye also confirmed ...

In 1956, Britain and Egypt relinquished their colonial control over Sudan, forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and ...

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Kampala, Uganda — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect ... known as the White Army, that's widely believed to be allied with Machar.

South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar's home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overran an army base in ...