The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s ...

Ashraf Shazly/AFP] During Sudan’s second north-south civil war from 1983 to 2005, before South Sudan became independent, Khartoum sought to undermine the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement ...

Ugandan troops were deployed to neighbouring South Sudan in March 2025 amid renewed hostility between supporters of the ...

"After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is once again on the brink of civil war," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock posted on social media. Patrick Oyet, DW correspondent, described the ...

There were high hopes for peace and stability after oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. But the country slid into civil war in December 2013 when forces loyal to Kiir ...

That war ended with a peace deal in 2018 ... was looted by British colonial troops before being returned to South Sudan in 2009 by British academic Douglas Johnson.

Riek Machar (L) and Salva Kiir (R) - seen here together in 2020 - had been allies within the SPLM before falling out Rising tensions in the east African country of South ... war. His party, the ...

The reported use of rape as a weapon of war paints one of the conflict’s darkest pictures. Meanwhile ... Sudanese refugees arriving in Chad, South Sudan and beyond find overcrowded camps ...