Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

The ongoing crisis in South Sudan has been long in the making – its roots lie in a faltering peace implementation process.

Unity State, South Sudan. When she was first admitted, Nyakin was very weak and sick; she had become malnourished during the family's flight from Khartoum after the Sudan war broke out ...

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Then, on Thursday, Kiir sacked the governor of Upper Nile State, who hailed from Machar's party. A young nation, with a troubled past. The UN has a large mission to South Sudan, with some 20,000 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed ... Kiir and Machar together in a government of national unity. Under the agreement, elections were supposed to be held ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan ... in fighting in the oil-producing Upper Nile state near the border with Sudan (see map). Mr Kiir has had several of his rival’s allies arrested ...

In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence referendum, and South Sudan officially ... spread to the states of Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Unity.