Renewed fighting in Western Equatoria State tells a grim story—a peace deal gasping its last breath, and a country lurching ...

South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, could soon devolve into renewed civil war. On Wednesday, soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in Juba, the capital, following the ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia he accuses of allying with ...

Oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. The country slid into civil war two years later when forces loyal to the president, an ethnic Dinka, battled ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world's newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

South Sudan split from the rest of Sudan in 2011 after decades of pro-independence unrest but has struggled to keep the peace in its territory, which is divided along ethnic lines.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, ... He said the U.N. takes the threat of the “ethnic transformation” of the conflict very seriously.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia he accuses of allying with ...