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

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

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again ...

On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...

The United Nations said the incident, which could deal a blow to an already fragile peace process, was "utterly abhorrent" ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil ... a loose band of armed youths from the same ethnic Nuer community as Machar, was suspected of involvement in the aircraft attack.

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

in Sudan, might be supplying the Nuer militia, exploiting historical ethnic divisions between Kiir’s Dinka and Machar’s Nuer groups. The 2018 peace agreement has been tenuous, punctuated by ...

an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba, and later rebels loyal to him came close to capturing Juba but were repulsed by a combined force of South Sudanese soldiers ...

Surge in violence The latest flare-up began on March 4, when a Nuer militia linked to Machar seized an army base in Nasir, a strategic town near the South Sudan-Ethiopia border. According to the ...