An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an armed group accused of overrunning a military base and attacking a U.N ...

Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil ...

By Nicholas Kristof Photographs by Malin Fezehai Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Kristof reported from South Sudan and Nairobi ... that opened in December in Aweil East County with funding from ...

South Sudanese authorities have arrested at least 22 political and military personnel in the wake of violent clashes that ...

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NAIROBI - Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it", Uganda's military chief said on Tuesday, but South Sudan's information minister denied the presence of ...

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 escalating violence in Nasir, Upper Nile State, has once again raised concerns about the fragile peace in South Sudan. The latest clashes, which have resulted in the deaths of high-ranking ...

Kampala, Uganda — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a ...

South Sudan has formally been at peace since a 2018 peace deal ended a five-year civil war that pitted forces loyal to President Salva Kiir against those of First Vice President Riek Machar and ...