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 President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

In the early years of South Sudan’s independence, peace processes failed to address long-standing grievances and widespread disenfranchisement. Weak governance and pre-existing ethnic tensions ...

raising concerns that the conflict could assume an ethnic dimension," he said in a speech to the African Union. Analysts say the war in neighbouring Sudan has also spurred the breakdown of the peace ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A major party in South ... could assume an ethnic dimension," he said in a speech to the African Union. Analysts say the war in neighbouring Sudan has also spurred the ...

In a testimony to the UN Security Council last week, the UNICEF chief disclosed that the ongoing conflict has evolved into ...

S.Sudan President Sacks Upper Nile Governor After Clashes With Ethnic Militia NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where ...

In a decree read on state TV late on Wednesday, Kiir sacked Upper Nile governor James Odhok Oyay who is from SPLM-IO and replaced him with James Koang Chuol, a lieutenant general who hails from Nasir.

The fall of the Republican Palace, a compound along the Nile River that was the seat of government before the war erupted and ...

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital ... the U.N. accuse the RSF and allied Arab militias of again attacking ethnic African groups in this war. Since the war began, both the Sudanese ...

As part of a book project on the mechanisms of genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo's North Kivu Province, Harvard scholar ...