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 ...

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva ...

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 ...

If South Sudan again descends into civil war, the conflict observatory said it could prove catastrophic for the country, potentially triggering massacres, ethnic cleansing, a surge in militias and ...

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 ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

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