Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. South Sudan is on the brink of a return to civil war. The first round, which ...

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 ...

South Sudan has formally been at peace since the 2018 agreement ended a five-year conflict between Machar and President Salva Kiir that killed hundreds of thousands of people, but violence between ...