An airstrike by South Sudan's airforce killed at least 19 people in the country's east, residents said, less than two weeks after government forces withdrew from the area following intense fighting ...

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

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, ...

Since Tuesday, soldiers of the South Sudanese army have surrounded Machar’s home in Juba, according to members of the vice ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

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

According to Dr Remember Miamingi, a South Sudanese governance expert and human rights advocate, Dr Machar’s power hinged on two key pillars: unwavering ethnic Nuer support, which fuelled his military ...

The United States has ordered all its non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, amid rising tensions in the country.

The situation in South Sudan is fragile and getting worse, with growing political and military instability. The claims made ...

South Sudan's government has denied earlier reports that Uganda had deployed special forces to its capital, Juba. Uganda's ...

Machar, whose political rivalry with President Salva Kiir has in the past exploded into civil war, said that the firing of ...

The U.N. is warning of “an alarming regression that could erase years of hard-won progress” in South Sudan. The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country's north between government ...