the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Special Representative for South Sudan, IGAD has set clear goals to "de-escalate the crisis and prioritize the implementation of the peace ...

New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera. The biggest development was an alliance in February between ...

Germany is temporarily closing its embassy in South Sudan due to the worsening conflict. Why does a nation that sought independence to avoid conflict with Sudan now find itself in another war?

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 ...

The African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development regional economic bloc also called for restraint. South Sudan's army and government spokespeople did not immediately respond ...

‘Since the start of Sudan’s brutal conflict two years ago today, women and girls have come under constant attack’ (AFP/Getty) Since the start of Sudan’s brutal conflict two years ago ...

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The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said the arrests marked an unravelling of the peace process. The African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development regional ...

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar is unravelling, threatening a return to South Sudan’s bloody civil war. Riek Machar attends the signing in Khartoum, Sudan of an accord with the ...

In perhaps the most important development, the army in late March ... The RSF also controls territory to the south, along Sudan’s borders with the Central African Republic and South Sudan.

UNITED NATIONS — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden ...

Tensions between the two political leaders of South Sudan have escalated in recent weeks, especially after the authorities put the vice president under house arrest in late March. Millions of ...