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, ...

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

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

Pope Francis appealed to South Sudan leaders to "lower the tension in the country" as Catholic bishops in Sudan and ...

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

South Sudan is admittedly a frustrating portfolio for policymakers. The country’s leadership is corrupt and unreliable. Too ...

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

African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after ...

The head of the peacekeeping mission in the country said President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar must put the ...

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

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.