South Sudan’s information minister said that 27 ... urging regional powers like Kenya and Ethiopia “to act with supreme urgency” to mitigate the crisis. Otherwise, he warned, “large ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The situation in South Sudan remains fluid. But while the United States of America favours ...

South Sudan's president appealed for calm and pledged ... local media reported a statement from Machar's office that condemned the "barbaric act." Efforts to "restore peace in the region remain ...

Security forces in South Sudan have arrested the oil minister and an army general, who are senior members of the main ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Increased violence and political friction in South Sudan threaten its fragile peace process, a United Nations rights body said on Saturday, days after the arrests of several ...

The South Sudanese president has not given reasons for the latest changes in government South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked two of his vice-presidents, the country's spy chief and other ...

The resolution should, among other elements, extend the man­date of the existing investigative me­cha­nism, the UN Com­mis­sion on Human Rights in South Sudan (CHRSS), in full, for two years ...