South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...

Yesterday, March 26, Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest, further escalating the renewed clashes between him and President Salva Kiir (see Fides, 5/3/2025).According to his party, ...

The Council of Evangelical Churches of South Sudan on Tuesday called for immediate de-escalation of tension and dialogue amidst violence in the country.

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...

Hostility between President Salva Kiir’s allies and his long-time rival, First Vice President Riek Machar, has been at its highest since a temporary peace deal was initiated in 2018. Because of the ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and First Vice ... In recent days, local civil society groups, women-led organizations and ...

A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

and South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. In the early years of South Sudan’s independence, peace processes failed to address long-standing grievances and ...

This month, a United Nations helicopter was attacked during an evacuation mission in a remote area in South Sudan, with one member of its crew killed and two others seriously injured. The flight ...