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 ...
Refugees are flooding into the remote northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo from South Sudan as a September 2018 peace deal hangs in the ...
The president of oil-rich South Sudan said on Wednesday that the formation of a unity government should be delayed by at least a year, despite a May ...
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 rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba on Wednesday, according to a Reuters witness, more than two years after he fled the ...
South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar on Tuesday refused to sign a final peace deal with the government that aims to end a brutal civil war, a Sudanese ...
South Sudan has started debating a bill extending the tenure of the interim government headed by President Salva Kiir by three years at a time when it ...
Kiir was elected in 2010, a year before the East African country gained independence from Sudan
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
The 15-member council agreed last month to consider an arms embargo on South Sudan, the world’s newest nation
Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have also sought refuge in other neighboring countries
Kiir accused Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings that degenerated into a ruinous civil war
An August peace agreement states that the vice president must be chosen by the South Sudan Armed Opposition
Considerable fighting has centered around the UN base in the Jebel area, where some 30,000 civilians have taken refuge
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
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 President Salva Kiir on Wednesday signed a peace deal with rebels, more than 20 months since the start of fighting
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