On 27th March, the Anglican Communion raised South Sudan's plight at the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, raising the human rights of women in the country, ...

By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ... Abdi Latif Dahir is the East Africa correspondent for The Times, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He covers a broad range of issues including ...

South Sudan’s opposition said on Thursday the arrest overnight of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, had invalidated their 2018 peace deal and risked ...

Worse still, it could merge with Sudan’s civil war across the border. Map ... mission in South Sudan. Sadly, that does not mean it won’t get one. Sign up to the Analysing Africa, a ...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have formed the largest military coalition in Sudan's history, incorporating six armed ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Another conflict is looming in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its foundation ...

US urges South Sudan to release Vice President Machar UN warns of potential resurgence of ethnic conflict Peace deal between Kiir and Machar at risk of collapse African Union, regional bloc ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state that relies almost entirely on oil revenues, so for the past year South Sudan ...

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 ...

Uganda says it has deployed troops in South Sudan's capital South Sudan requested deployment, says Uganda military South Sudan information minister says no troops present Tensions rose after ...

Map locates the Upper Nile state in South Sudan as well as Nasir and Juba ... into a new civil war,” said Alan Boswell, the Horn of Africa director at the International Crisis Group.