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

A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian ...

BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan's capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the East African country to the verge of civil ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Saturday that it is temporarily closing its embassy in South Sudan. “After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is once again on the brink of civil war,” German ...

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 rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return to civil war in the world’s youngest nation. In early March ...

2005. Sudan's northern-based government and rebels in the south of Sudan sign a peace deal after two decades of fighting in Africa's longest-running civil war that led to the deaths of 2 million ...

A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 unleashed waves of ethnic violence. Africacategory· 2:23 PM UTC Norway temporarily shuts South Sudan embassy over security Norway's foreign ministry ...

CAIRO — Sudan’s military on Friday retook the Republican ... surrounding ministry buildings and the Arab Market to the south of the complex. Khartoum International Airport, only some 1.5 ...

Zhang Meng/Xinhua News Agency/picture alliance The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — which hold nearly all of Sudan's western Darfur region and parts of the south — recently signed a charter ...

Sudan’s army has reclaimed the Presidential Palace in the capital, Khartoum, in a significant victory over a rampaging militia that controls swaths of the war-torn country. The Sudanese Armed ...