When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus of worldwide congratulations and celebrations, ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ...

South Sudan's independence in 2011 was met with hopes for freedom and democracy. However, political rivalry between President ...

which fought a bloody civil war that erupted roughly two years after South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. But all that has appeared to be coming undone in recent weeks, as deep ...

Western governments, including Canada, were enthusiastic backers of South Sudan when it declared independence from Sudan in 2011, and Canada has provided $1.1-billion in foreign aid to it since then.

South Sudan – which declared independence from Sudan in 2011 – has remained plagued by poverty and insecurity since the peace deal. Analysts say an ageing Kiir, 73, has been seeking to ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek ... left hundreds of thousands of people dead in the country that gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, deputy ...

retaining the position after South Sudan's independence in 2011 until his sacking in 2013. Machar's dismissal was one of the factors that sparked a return to civil war in December 2013.

South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, fell into a bloody civil war soon after gaining independence in 2011, as forces aligned with Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fought those loyal to Machar ...