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

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

Sudanese army forces advancing on Khartoum converged on Monday with troops in the capital's centre, a military spokesman said ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered nonemergency government ...

One person working with the United Nations peace-keeping mission to South Sudan and several members of the South Sudan People ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, ...

the capital of North Darfur, carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “Pope Francis continues to follow the events in South Sudan and prays for this country. We can now return those ...

Ivor Prickett for The New York Times Peace, always shaky, has been severely tested in the past two years as the civil war in Sudan, to the north, has wounded South Sudan’s weak economy by ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north.

Gabriel Duop Lam, also loyal to Machar, was detained Tuesday over the fighting in the north, while Machar ally ... what he called a "full-scale war." South Sudan is yet to fully implement the ...