The UN has expressed concern, regional mediators are scrambling and a US evacuation is underway.Tensions are spiraling in South Sudan amid escalating militia violence in the Upper Nile state in the ...

The arrests come amid rising tensions after the White Army, a local armed youth group, captured a South Sudan People’s ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has posthumously promoted two military officers killed in recent clashes between ...

The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has strongly condemned the violence in Upper Nile State ...

A crew member was killed and two others were injured when a United Nations helicopter on an evacuation mission in a remote ...

One person working with the United Nations peace-keeping mission to South Sudan and several members of the South Sudan People ...

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again ...

Fighting reportedly broke out in Nasir in Upper Nile state on February 14 and 15, the UN mission in South Sudan says.

Violence looks likely to escalate. Some in Juba fear that the Nuer militias may next try to take Malakal, the Upper Nile state capital and one of South Sudan's three main cities. A battle for ...

A crew member was killed and two others were injured when a United Nations helicopter on an evacuation mission in a remote part of South Sudan was attacked ...