Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva ...

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 ...

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

The Council of the South Sudan Bar Association on Thursday announced that 83 lawyers have lost their practicing licenses in ...

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 ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed Monica Achol Abel as the country’s ambassador to Kenya and as a diplomat in ...

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 ...

This act puts the entire agreement at risk," the statement said. "We are also gravely concerned about the heavy deployment of SSPDF (South Sudan army troops) around the residence of... Machar," he ...

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 ...

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 ...