South Sudanese troops loyal to President Salva Kiir pictured at Bor airport after they re-captured it from rebel forces, on December 25, 2013. Government forces and rebels in South Sudan were on ...

A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return to civil war in the world’s youngest nation. In early March 2025, ...

The world’s youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state ...

T he United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the Trump administration has ...

In 2013, citing a coup plot, Kiir fired Machar as his deputy, and later that year violence erupted in Juba as government ...

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday called for an immediate end to hostilities and urgent dialogue between ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

In 2013, two years after South Sudan gained independence, a power struggle between Machar and Kiir descended into a civil war. Most Nuer forces loosely aligned with Machar coalesced into the SPLM ...

The U.S. has revoked all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders due to South Sudan's refusal to accept repatriated ...

The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan's failure to ...

FILE - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings to discuss outstanding issues to the peace deal on Oct. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Sam ...

Diaspora leaders descended on Washington this week to demand that the United States press Uganda to withdraw its troops from ...