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 ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s ...

Sudan's catastrophic civil war is grinding into a third year. A conflict that continues to shatter a country that much of the ...

South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

This workshop provides a platform for open discussion on how to strengthen South Sudan's road map to democracy.

and Central Africa risk becoming ever more entwined. It’s not just that arms and fighters have a knack for moving across borders. Already, Sudan’s war has devastated the South Sudanese economy ...

In a sign of the fragile situation in the country, the US embassy has urged Americans to flee South Sudan while they still can. Similar advice was issued by Britain. The African Union, which ...

A Catholic bishop in the Africa’s youngest country has directed the people under his care to participate in daily prayers for peace amid testimonies of rising tension in South Sudan and reports ...

"The prospect for peace and stability in South Sudan has now been put into serious ... chair of the East African Community, who said it followed a phone conversation he had with Kiir and ...

New alliances in Sudan ... Justice Africa. In 1987, the government began arming nomads and pastoralists referred to as “Arabs” to fight against sedentary farmers in the south who are seen ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.