Thirteen soldiers are accused of raping five foreign aid workers and killing their local colleague in July 2016 ... READ MORE›
The pursuit of Machar ushered in a particularly violent period in South Sudan's Equatorias region, with multiple localised conflicts, particularly in Yei, the report said... READ MORE›
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has restructured the army and changed its name - Sudan People Liberation Army SPLA - to South Sudan Defense Forces SSDF ... READ MORE›
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed Paul Malong, the war-torn country's powerful army chief of staff... READ MORE›
One year into South Sudan's new transitional government, Juba is still struggling to cope with insecurity, poverty and conflict... READ MORE›
The civil war in South Sudan has forced more than two million children to flee their homes, according to two UN agencies... READ MORE›
Thousands of frightened people have also taken refuge on the grounds of the Catholic cathedral in Wau, the biggest in all of South Sudan... READ MORE›
'They sleep when they're too hungry' South Sudanese trapped by war, famine grow increasingly desperate... READ MORE›
They were among 530 people who have been living in the Munigi base, outside Goma, since fleeing South Sudan last August, U.N... READ MORE›
At least 14 people have been killed in South Sudan after new fighting erupted between government forces and the main rebel group... READ MORE›
The case against officials in President Salva Kiir's office accused of stealing millions of dollars from the state by forging the president's signature will be retried... READ MORE›
The president made this order on Tuesday during a cabinet meeting in Juba... READ MORE›
But Unicef officials said there was nowhere in South Sudan that had the specialists Duop needed. Duop retreated to a cot in his aunt's shack... READ MORE›
Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying what organisation they worked for... READ MORE›
The Security Council is divided over two ways to step up pressure on South Sudan's government-an arms embargo, or sanctions on additional people blocking peace... READ MORE›
A passenger plane crash-landed and burned in Wau, northwestern South Sudan on Monday, but all 49 passengers and crew survived, an airport official said... READ MORE›
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
He said Ethiopian troops have not crossed the border into South Sudan in pursuit of the accused attackers... READ MORE›
The United Nations established a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in 2011 that has grown to more than 13,000 soldiers and police officers... READ MORE›
This famine is man-made, said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Programme in South Sudan... READ MORE›
Continued deployment of Kenyan troops in South Sudan is no longer tenable, the ministry said, saying Kenya would withdraw, immediately its forces there... READ MORE›
South Sudan spends budget on fighting as people starve... READ MORE›
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE›
Ateny Wek Ateny, a press secretary in the South Sudan President's office, said 18 people were aboard the flight 12 South Sudanese passengers and six crew members... READ MORE›
War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to 10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine... READ MORE›
Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013 when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer... READ MORE›
Nelson Ladu Thomas has twice walked over the small wooden bridge dividing South Sudan and Uganda at an unofficial border crossing known as Busia... READ MORE›
South Sudan strife Hundreds of boys in South Sudan have been kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, the United Nations children's agency says... READ MORE›
Or Paris where hotels restaurants and boutiques cater to almost 50 million tourists a year in the world's most visited city?... READ MORE›
He also added that Ethiopia's security forces may cross into neighbouring South Sudan to pursue the attackers... READ MORE›
Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops attacked their positions in the capital, Juba... READ MORE›
The United States is by far and away the largest contributor of foreign aid to the South Sudanese government... READ MORE›
South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Machar's spokesman... READ MORE›
Intense fighting has resumed in South Sudan's capital, Juba, as an increasingly tense security situation threatened to send the young country back to all-out civil war... READ MORE›
The UN said government forces and allied militias gang-raped girls and cut civilians to pieces... READ MORE›
Of all the quixotic rebel armies fighting for freedom in Africa, the South Sudanese actually won... READ MORE›
The flight had been headed to strategic oil fields in the Upper Nile region of the country, where there is a large South Sudanese military presence... READ MORE›
Ethiopian officials have blamed Murle tribesmen from South Sudan for a series of deadly attacks on Ethiopian villages in Gambela... READ MORE›
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
The United Nations report came as the world body's Human Rights Council prepared to take up the South Sudan conflict... READ MORE›
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, but plunged into conflict soon after Kiir fired Machar as vice-president in 2013... READ MORE›
Deng Adut is a lot taller and older than Deng Akech, but the two Sudanese-Australians both dressed sharply for their meeting in Canberra today... READ MORE›
I want to assure you that South Sudan will be more peaceful with Taban and Kiir instead of Riek Machar, he added... READ MORE›
At least 89 children, some as young as 13, have been kidnaped by an armed militia in South Sudan as they sat their exams, Unicef reported today... READ MORE›
Addressing the media, he said his main priorities were to ensure a permanent ceasefire, to stabilise the economy and ensure humanitarian access throughout South Sudan... READ MORE›
There's massive access constraints, roadblocks everywhere, widespread extortion, said Jonathan Veitch, head of Unicef's South Sudan office... READ MORE›
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