South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed Thursday to form a unity government on Saturday, a long-delayed step towards ...
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said on Saturday he was cutting the number of states from 32 to 10, unlocking a stalled peace deal and paving ...
Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Wednesday sent wishes of “peace and prosperity” to South Sudan as ...
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar said on Sunday that he wants to further postpone the formation of a power-sharing government, warning that ...
South Sudan’s exiled rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Juba on Saturday in a bid to salvage a peace deal with less than a month to go until he ...
The UN Security Council said on Tuesday that a peace deal in South Sudan signed a year ago is “a window of opportunity” to end the civil ...
A South Sudanese court sentenced a prominent economist to two years in prison on Tuesday for disturbing the peace because he gave interviews to ...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Saturday urged opposition leader Riek Machar to return home “urgently” to help form a government of ...
Pope Francis, in a dramatic gesture after an unprecedented retreat at the Vatican, knelt to kiss the feet of South Sudan’s previously warring ...
South Sudan's warring rivals President Salva Kiir and rebel leader and former Vice President Riek Machar began a retreat at the Vatican on Wednesday ...
South Sudan freed two associates of rebel leader Riek Machar from prison on Friday, advancing a peace agreement to end almost five years of civil war. ...
Senior diplomats met to discuss South Sudan on Friday on the sidelines of the annual UN gathering of world leaders
The 15-member council met with President Salva Kiir’s cabinet, religious and civil society leaders
Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have also sought refuge in other neighboring countries
South Sudan’s rebel leader has fled the country and was expected to emerge after weeks in hiding later Thursday to speak to the press
Kiir accused Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings that degenerated into a ruinous civil war
South Sudan won independence from Sudan under a peace agreement in 2011 but the world’s newest country is now caught in a ferocious civil war
Machar had been expected to return to the capital on Monday, in line with a political agreement aimed at ending the two-year war
Dangerous heavy metals used in oil production in South Sudan have leaked into drinking water sources used by 180,000 people
The U.N. said that South Sudan’s warring parties are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property
Ceasefire monitors called on rival forces to allow food into conflict zones where aid workers have warned tens of thousands may be dying of starvation
Civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup
The council called for an immediate end to fighting in a statement after a closed-door meeting
A truce is aimed at ending the brutal civil war between government and rebel forces in South Sudan
South Sudan's former vice president Riek Machar ordered his rebel troops to lay down their arms
Fighting erupted in South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, in Dec. 2013
The conflict in Africa's newest nation and one of its poorest erupted in December 2013 and has rumbled on since then
The fighting in Juba set off a cycle of retaliatory massacres across large swathes of the country
The warning was issued in the early hours of Saturday by the regional bloc IGAD
The warning came in a unanimous statement agreed to ahead of a South Sudan visit by Security Council ambassadors next week
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