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

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

The German government is temporarily closing its embassy in South Sudan. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that “after ...

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

Airstrike Kills at Least 19 in South Sudan Town, Residents Say NAIROBI (Reuters) - An airstrike by South Sudan's airforce killed at least 19 people in the country's east, residents said ...

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 ...

a strategic desert city in North Darfur near the borders of Chad and Libya. Sudan’s military has acknowledged fighting around al-Maliha, but has not said it lost the city. Al-Maliha is around ...

In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded and formed a new state: the Republic of South Sudan. The dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir defined Sudan’s post-colonial period. Bashir seized ...

Sudan's armed forces ... and then later in Darfur and el-Gezira state south of Khartoum. * Early this year it has regained some footing, particularly in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum ...