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

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, head of the Uganda People's Defense Forces, has expressed fatigue over the ongoing conflict with ...

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

What’s different this time compared to the outbreak of civil war in 2013? When South Sudan’s civil war erupted in 2013, Nasir was engulfed in violence. Government troops – largely of Dinka origin – ...

But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013 largely based on ethnic divisions when forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, battled those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer. More than 40,000 ...

There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013 largely based on ethnic divisions ...

The South Sudanese government’s war against the people of these counties, who belong to the Nuer ethnic group, is rooted in its refusal to implement the peace deal, which stipulated that unified ...

But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013, largely based on ethnic divisions when forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, battled those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer. More than ...

“I am tired of killing Nuer. Tell your leader Riek Machar to come ... and that any move against him is akin to a declaration of war against Uganda. Known for his outbursts and controversial ...

The fighting in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army—a loosely organised militia of armed Nuer youths—raised fears of a potential resurgence of the 2013-2018 ...