South Sudan is on the brink of renewed civil war, according to the top U.N. official in the country. Nicolas Haysom called ...

South Sudan's opposition said Tuesday that several key political figures had been arrested, a day after one of its army bases ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the ...

The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country’s north between government troops and a rebel militia, known as the White Army.

The escalating violence in Nasir, Upper Nile State, has once again raised concerns about the fragile peace in South Sudan. The latest clashes, which have resulted in the deaths of high-ranking ...

Uganda has deployed troops in South Sudan as cracks within the transitional government widen threatening to throw the youngest country into another civil war. The deployment of troops in South ...

PETER BUSOMOKE / AFP Impoverished South Sudan has long been plagued by political ... a loose band of armed youths from the same ethnic Nuer community as the vice-president. The rising unrest ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between ... accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba, and ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between ... accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba, and ...

South Sudan’s capital, Juba ... The arrests came after the “White Army” – a Nuer ethnic militia – seized the town of Nasir in Upper Nile state. Fears are growing that the White Army ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ...