South Sudan’s government has indicated that detained First Vice President Riek Machar could be replaced, pending the ...

South Sudan’s government has classified Nuer-majority areas as either “hostile” or “friendly” in a rare public announcement, ...

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

The United Nations called for a cessation of hostilities between the army and fighters loyal to South Sudan’s deputy ...

Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South SudanThe South Sudanese army recaptured the town of Nasir on 19 April, in a setback for the opposition militia that had seized it ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance ...

There are alarming signs that history is about to repeat as domestic political factions position themselves for a return to ...

South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

Ms Williams, a 33-year-old mother of five, is from South Sudan. She was forced to flee when civil war ... when a power ...

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar speaks to the media about the situation in South Sudan following a peace agreement the ...

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 Sudan, culminating in the ...

Image South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, left, and its vice president, Riek Machar, in 2019. They are now bitterly at odds.Credit...Sam Mednick/Associated Press Mr. Akech of the International ...