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 ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

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 ...

The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one of the deadliest — in DR Congo — over fatalities, public opposition and ...

Sudanese authorities have found several bodies inside a well in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after the military cleared ...

South Sudan has not been able to hold elections which were initially scheduled for April 2023 only to be postponed to December 2024. In September 2024, President Kiir announced a fresh postponement of ...

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

USAID was the pace-setter on locally led development," says Moses Isooba of the Uganda National NGO Forum. But now that it ...

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

Tensions are spiraling in South Sudan amid escalating militia violence in Upper Nile state in the east of the country, cabinet reshuffles, and the arrests of several senior officials in the capital, ...

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

Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it", Uganda's military chief said on Tuesday, but ...