[PHOTOS] SOUTH SUDAN TO OPEN NEW TERMINAL AT JUBA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Africa's youngest nation, South Sudan, will have a new terminal for its main international airport, the Juba International Airport... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN ARCHIVISTS FEAR LOSS OF HISTORICAL TEXTS

South Sudan gained its independence in 2011, but two years later, conflict broke out... READ MORE›

ONE LAST PUSH TO END SOUTH SUDAN'S DEADLY CIVIL WAR

Malakal used to be South Sudan's second largest city after the capital, Juba... READ MORE›

WOMEN TAKE TO STREETS TO DEMAND END TO SOUTH SUDAN WAR

We, the women of South Sudan, have decided that we have had enough of this... READ MORE›

AFTER U.S. VISIT, SOUTH SUDAN'S KIIR ORDERS UNHINDERED AID ACCESS

Haley said Washington had lost trust in Kiir's government for fueling the civil war, and demanded that Kiir allow full and consistent humanitarian aid access... READ MORE›

NIKKI HALEY AND THE AWFUL DILEMMA POSED BY SOUTH SUDAN

Still, more than 200,000 South Sudanese live in protection-of-civilians sites manned by peacekeepers and managed by the United Nations... READ MORE›

UGANDA'S OPEN-DOOR POLICY SAGS AMID CRUSH OF REFUGEES FROM SOUTH SUDAN

But a three-year civil war has sent 700,000 South Sudanese refugees fleeing, many to their southern neighbor... READ MORE›

TRUMP'S PLAN TO SLASH FOREIGN AID COMES AS FAMINE THREAT IS SURGING

Last year, the United States contributed 6.4 billion in humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations, more than a quarter of global funding... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA ATTACK: 200 PEOPLE DEAD, 100 CHILDREN MISSING

South Sudanese officials were not immediately available for comment... READ MORE›

S SUDAN: GANG-RAPE VICTIM TESTIFIES AGAINST 12 SOLDIERS

Human rights workers monitoring the trial have praised the woman's decision to return to South Sudan to give her testimony... READ MORE›

DUOP CAN YOU HEAR ME A CHILD SOLDIER TRIES TO GO HOME AGAIN

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›

REPORT: U.N. GAVE ARMS TO SOUTH SUDAN REBELS LATER IMPLICATED IN MASSACRE

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›

SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASHES, ALL 49 PASSENGERS, CREW SURVIVE

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›

FAMINE DECLARED IN PART OF SOUTH SUDAN'S UNITY STATE

This famine is man-made, said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Programme in South Sudan... READ MORE›

'THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY'RE TOO HUNGRY'

'They sleep when they're too hungry' South Sudanese trapped by war, famine grow increasingly desperate... READ MORE›

KENYA WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM UN MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN

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›

U.S. SANCTIONS SOUTH SUDAN OFFICIALS FOR ALLEGEDLY ENRICHING THEMSELVES AMID CIVIL WAR, FAMINE

Officials from the United Nations and donor countries have visited South Sudan recently to urge Kiir to participate in peace negotiations... READ MORE›

FAMINE DECLARED IN SOUTH SUDAN, WITH 100,000 PEOPLE FACING STARVATION

The United Nations has been alarmed by the recent deterioration in South Sudan... READ MORE›

OBAMA IN ETHIOPIA PLANS TO ADDRESS SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASH KILLS DOZENS; BABY AMONG SURVIVORS

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›

FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN HIKES FEES FOR WORK PERMITS

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›

THE BOY THE AMBASSADOR AND THE DEADLY ENCOUNTER ON THE ROAD

In Mokong, the front room of Toussaint's grandmother's house became crowded with Cameroonian officials and American aides securing the premises... READ MORE›

THE WOODEN BRIDGE BETWEEN DEATH AND SAFETY

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›

WHAT'S THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY?

Or Paris where hotels restaurants and boutiques cater to almost 50 million tourists a year in the world's most visited city?... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA DECLARES TWO DAYS OF NATIONAL MOURNING

He also added that Ethiopia's security forces may cross into neighbouring South Sudan to pursue the attackers... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN FORCES HAVE COMMITTED CAPITAL CRIMES

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›

AID WORKERS KIDNAPPED IN FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN

The situation in Mayendit, South Sudan, is a level 4 famine... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN 'BACK TO WAR', SAYS VP RIEK MACHAR'S SPOKESMAN

Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops attacked their positions in the capital, Juba... READ MORE›

FEARS AFTER KENYA DEPORTS SOUTH SUDAN REBEL SPOKESMAN

South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Machar's spokesman... READ MORE›

OBAMA JUST SAID THE SLAUGHTER IN SOUTH SUDAN IS NOT BEING REPORTED ON. HE'S WRONG.

President Obama said no one is reporting on South Sudan. But that's just not true... READ MORE›

'HOPE OF PEACE IS DIMMING'

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›

QUANDARY IN SOUTH SUDAN SHOULD IT LOSE ITS HARD-WON INDEPENDENCE

Of all the quixotic rebel armies fighting for freedom in Africa, the South Sudanese actually won... READ MORE›

DOZENS KILLED IN CARGO PLANE CRASH IN SOUTH SUDAN ALONG NILE

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›

'THEY ARE KILLING CIVILIANS HOUSE TO HOUSE'

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›

CONTINUED CHAOS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, AID MAY BE PULLED

As head of USAID, Green embodies U.S. humanitarian aid to South Sudan... READ MORE›

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States may have midwifed the birth of South Sudan, the world's youngest nation... READ MORE›