Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) has called on military officers allied with First Vice President Riek Machar to return to work after reports that some had gone into hiding following ...

South Sudan peace monitors on Sunday called for speedy investigations into the violence in Upper Nile State and the attack ...

JUBA -- South Sudan peace monitors on Sunday called for speedy investigations into the violence in Upper Nile State and the attack on a UN helicopter on Friday that led to the death of a UN personnel ...

The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has strongly condemned the violence in Upper Nile State ...

South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has called for an urgent investigation ...

ADDIS ABABA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has called for an immediate end to hostilities in South Sudan.

However, the independence movement, led by Kiir’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), quickly splintered. By 2013, the country had descended into full-scale civil war. The fighting killed more ...

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FILE - South Sudan President Salva Kiir, left, and First Vice President Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings in ...

South Sudan’s president appealed for calm and pledged his country would “not go back to war”, after a UN helicopter was attacked and a crew member killed on a rescue mission on Friday. A fragile power ...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Friday appealed for calm and reiterated his commitment to peace, hours after 27 people ...