BERLIN — The German government said Saturday that it is temporarily closing its embassy in South Sudan. “After years of ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

This month, a United Nations helicopter was attacked during an evacuation mission in a remote area in South Sudan, with one ... and a half after it gained independence amid hope and fanfare.

Two years after South Sudan gained independence in 2011, Kiir and Machar were engaged in a bitter civil war until a peace deal was struck in 2018. However, the latest arrests — linked to ...

South Sudan Connection: Since South Sudan’s independence in 2011, Sudan has remained a major player in its fragile stability, particularly concerning oil exports that rely on Sudanese pipelines.

In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence referendum, and South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. In the early years of South ...

Ushering in a parallel government during an active conflict would signal a serious risk of secession, potentially leading to Sudan’s second partition, following the independence of South Sudan ...

After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan quickly fell into political turmoil. The power struggle between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar led to the outbreak ...

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 ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

The deal provides for a referendum on southern secession. South Sudan declares independence in 2011. * 2019. Bashir is toppled after a popular uprising. This is followed by a period of rising ...