The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

Professor Jok Madut Jok, a prominent South Sudanese political analyst and professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in ...

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

The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly ...

If surging tensions between South Sudan’s president and first vice president are not addressed on time, the country risks ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key ...

Juba tense after arrest of opposition politicians, army generals COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | The political ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines.