South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) on Friday arrested Tot Jock Chieng, Unity State’s Minister of General Education ...

Professor Jok Madut Jok, a prominent South Sudanese political analyst and professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in ...

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

Legislators say the move is illegal without Parliament’s approval, while South Sudan denies the troops’ presence.

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

South Sudanese authorities have arrested at least 22 political and military personnel in the wake of violent clashes that ...

South Sudan’s ruling coalition, the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNoU) had been a loose arrangement meant to ...

NAIROBI - South Sudanese ... in South Sudan called for de-escalation in Nasir's Upper Nile State and warned about the potential for "widespread violence". Ter Manyang, head of the Juba-based ...

NAIROBI - South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after ...

FILE - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings in Juba, South Sudan, on Oct. 20, 2019, to discuss outstanding issues to the ...

South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, this week ordered a series of high-level arrests and dismissals of political and army figures as tensions between him and Vice President Riek Machar – a main ...