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

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

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

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 ...

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

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north. The travel ...

This act puts the entire agreement at risk,” the statement by Deng said. “We are also gravely concerned about the heavy deployment of SSPDF [South Sudan army troops] around the residence of ...

Several senior officials in South Sudan, including three leading politicians from the SPLM-IO party and a lieutenant general allied to Vice President Riek Machar, have been arrested amid signs of a ...

Fighting reportedly broke out in Nasir in Upper Nile state on February 14 and 15, the UN mission in South Sudan says.