South Sudan is once again on the brink of full-scale humanitarian catastrophe, propelled by conflict, attacks on civilians ...

South Sudanese government forces have retaken the town of Nasir which had been a flashpoint in a deepening political crisis, an army spokesman said on Sunday. Clashes around Nasir in the ...

Juba, April 22 (IANS) The South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) has regained control of Nasir town in Upper Nile State, which it lost following Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

An alarming surge of violence in South Sudan’s Nasir County, Upper Nile State, is putting communities at risk and threatening to plunge the region into deeper crisis.

South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent ... The Nasir fighting threatens a 2018 peace deal between Machar and Kiir to end a five ...

South Sudan's government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an armed group accused of overrunning a military base and attacking a U.

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 ...

When South Sudan's civil war erupted in 2013, Nasir was engulfed in violence. Government troops - largely of Dinka origin - perceived the Nuer-majority town as enemy territory.

'The violence was triggered by disagreement on the replacement of long-staying soldiers of the South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) in Nasir for a period of 10-plus years,' Yakani tells Anadolu ...

March 7, 2025 (JUBA) – A UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) helicopter conducting an evacuation process in Nasir, in Upper Nile State, came under fire on Friday, resulting in the killing of a ...

Clashes around Nasir in the northeastern Upper Nile State have helped unravel a power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, Vice-President Riek Machar. The violence ...

South Sudanese government forces have retaken the town of Nasir which had been a flashpoint in a deepening political crisis, an army spokesman said on Sunday.