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 ...
A bloc of East African nations on Wednesday called for South Sudan's government to release detained officials and lift ...
South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict and political upheaval. On 4 March, a Nuer militia with ties to Riek Machar, a former rebel leader who is now first vice president, captured an army ...
On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...
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.
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 ...
In 2013, South Sudan descended into full-scale war when Kiir, a Dinka, fired Machar as vice president after escalating rows between them. Machar is from the Nuer ethnic group, South Sudan’s ...