AFPAn east African regional bloc warned on Wednesday that recent clashes in South Sudan were pushing the country "ever closer to the brink of war".Throughout its short history, the impoverished nation ...

The UN has expressed concerned, regional mediators are scrambling, and a US evacuation is underway.Tensions are spiraling in South Sudan amid escalating militia violence in Upper Nile state in the ...

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Uganda has deployed special forces to South Sudan's capital, Juba, amid escalating tensions between South Sudanese President ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

Uganda has deployed troops in Juba, South Sudan, amid rising tensions between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek ...

South Sudanese soldiers have surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital and several of his allies were ...

On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A crew member was killed and two others were injured when a United Nations helicopter on an evacuation ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday swore in Dr. Riek Gai Kok as the new governor of Jonglei State, a region long plagued by instability and intercommunal violence.

South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday, after the arrests ...

South Sudanese soldiers have surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overrun an army base JUBA ...