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

forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two ...

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.

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 ...

These talks and South Sudan's fiscal crisis appear to have brought Kiir closer to the RSF, as well as the United Arab Emirates, widely understood to be the rebels' main patron. In turn, relations ...

The U.N. is warning of “an alarming regression that could erase years of hard-won progress” in South Sudan. The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country's north between government ...

One person working with the United Nations peace-keeping mission to South ... Sudan and several members of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces were killed during an evacuation exercise in ...

But Mr Abdallah Kiwanuka, the Mukono North MP, and a member of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee, on Wednesday described the UPDF deployment to South Sudan without Parliament approval as ...