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

Berlin says it is temporarily shuttering its embassy in South Sudan amid safety concerns over a deteriorating security ...

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

Experts say Uganda’s involvement inflames tensions COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT REPORTERS & AGENCIES | The entry of soldiers ...

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

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

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

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

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

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

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

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