South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an ...

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

Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil ...

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Uganda Deploys Special Forces to South Sudan to Protect the Government as Fears of Civil War Grow KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid ...

The confirmation and denial of Ugandan troop deployment to South Sudan has exposed serious governance and transparency issues, eroded trust, and possibly escalated conflict and invited broader ...

The escalating violence in Nasir, Upper Nile State, has once again raised concerns about the fragile peace in South Sudan. The latest clashes, which have resulted in the deaths of high-ranking ...

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 ...

South Sudan has formally been at peace since a 2018 peace deal ended a five-year civil war that pitted forces loyal to President Salva Kiir against those of First Vice President Riek Machar and ...

and South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. In the early years of South Sudan’s independence, peace processes failed to address long-standing grievances and ...

On March 7, Pamela Mabini, a community activist and whistleblower was shot and killed outside her home in Kwazakhele, Gqeberha, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Through her nonprofit ...