The conflict in neighbouring Sudan is worsening South Sudan’s security and economic woes, the head of the U.N. mission in South Sudan warned on Wednesday, citing a deteriorating situation that risks ...

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar is unravelling, threatening a return to South Sudan’s bloody civil war.

First Vice President Riek Machar reportedly arrested after armed convoy entered his residence in the capital, Juba.

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned.

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

A young nation, with a troubled past. The UN has a large mission to South Sudan, with some 20,000 peacekeepers. The head of that mission, Nicolas Haysom, warned Tuesday that "South Sudan is poised ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday warned of a deepening crisis in South Sudan, describing the situation as a "perfect storm" of conflict, humanitarian disaster, and economic collapse.

South Sudan’s embattled vice president said the deployment of Ugandan troops in his country violates a United Nations arms embargo and risks collapsing a peace accord, as the UN warned the oil ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said its leader Riek Machar has been arrested as the U.N. called on all parties to uphold the 2018 agreement that ended the country ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Another conflict is looming in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its ...