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

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

A bloc of East African nations on Wednesday called for South Sudan's government to release detained officials and lift ...

On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...

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

South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict and political upheaval. On 4 March, a Nuer militia with ties to Riek Machar, a former rebel leader who is now first vice president, captured an army ...

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

A Nuer militia with ties to Machar overran a ... could be the first major violent spillover from Sudan’s war into South Sudan,” the Crisis Group said in a statement. The think tank suggested ...

Surge in violence The latest flare-up began on March 4, when a Nuer militia linked to Machar seized an army base in Nasir, a strategic town near the South Sudan-Ethiopia border. According to the ...