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

Why did we seek the independence of South Sudan? If not all of us, at least the majority—including the SPLM ...

Gen Al Burhan named a career UN diplomat, Kamil Idris, as prime minister in May to head a 22-member government based in the ...

The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the fighting could further worsen the ...

The UN Security Council is due to vote in late May on whether to renew an arms embargo on South Sudan for another year. Amnesty International is warning that the conflict could worsen without it.

The US is extending Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese nationals for six months as well as the UN mission after Juba caved on accepting migrants.

South Sudan has reversed its decision to deny entry to a man it said was a Congolese national deported by the United States after Washington imposed a blanket visa ban on South Sudanese citizens.

South Sudan’s president arrests VP, opposition says, risking imminent war President Salva Kiir ordered the arrest of Riek Machar, the opposition said, imperiling a 2018 peace deal.

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a return to civil war ...

The United States ordered the immediate departure of non-emergency personnel from the capital of South Sudan, citing an increase in crime, kidnapping and armed conflict, the Department of State ...