Local volunteers – best known for running communal soup kitchens – had formed neighbourhood-based emergency response rooms ...

a statement from its mission in South Sudan, Unmiss, said. It added that an injured South Sudanese general and several other troops were also killed during the evacuation attempt in Upper Nile state.

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 the ...

Machar's party has previously denied involvement in the recent fighting in Nasir.The head of the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Nicholas Haysom, said the attack was "utterly abhorrent" and ...