South Sudan’s president has called for dialogue amid concerns that the country could relapse into a civil war due to the ...

Recent experience in southern Sudan has demonstrated that the fighting now in progress will provoke a new humanitarian disaster, unless immediately checked. The Nuer are already conducting inter ...

He had escaped Juba, the capital, and gone up-country, into the home territory of his fellow Nuer people. The President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, had accused Machar—a longtime ally turned ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's army chief after seven months in the post and named a replacement, ...

Clashes have killed 56 people during four days of fighting in South Sudan's eastern Jonglei state, after youth from the Nuer community attacked another ethnic group, a local official said on ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed the army chief after seven months in the role and appointed a successor, as ...

South Sudan, newly independent, continues violent clashes between the Murle and the Lou Nuer tribes over cattle. Child abduction is a byproduct, and on the rise. Eleven-year-old Kakayo is among ...

A U.N. official says South Sudan is very close to a "Rwanda-like" genocide. Cameron Hudson of the Holocaust Museum's genocide prevention center explains the history of South Sudan's struggles.

Kiir is a Dinka, South Sudan’s largest indigenous group, while Machar is a Nuer, its second most numerous. To Machar, Kiir’s clean sweep of his cabinet was intended to squelch dissent over his ...

Colorado State sophomores Buom Jock (8) and Nuer Gatkouh (9) pose for a picture with the South Sudan flag. The two players have a shared heritage as descendants of the Nuer tribe, the second ...