Nicholas Haysom warned that the deteriorating situation in the country suggests South Sudan is on the brink of renewed civil war. He highlighted indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Nasir ...

South Sudan said at the time the decision to blacklist Bol Mel was based on misleading information. The United Nations had already warned that the violence in Nasir, around 450 kilometres ...

of the current political-economic system in South Sudan. The SSPDF claimed that its mission to Nasir was to replace this force. The Nuer youth of Nasir, tired of being killed, demanded Dak's ...

In South Sudan ... the White Army overran a military camp in the Nasir district of Upper Nile state, on the border with Ethiopia and Sudan. Most of the White Army fighters are said to belong ...

an UNMISS helicopter attempting to evacuate wounded SSPDF soldiers in Nasir was attacked, killing a crew member and several soldiers, including an injured general. Haysom warned that South Sudan ...

and the SPLM-Nasir. Machar is from the Nuer ethnic group – the second largest in South Sudan – to which the White Army also belongs, while Kiir is from the majority Dinka tribe. The government ...

"The violence that started in March in Nasir seems to be spreading across a number of states in South Sudan," warned the International Crisis Group's South Sudan senior analyst, Daniel Akech.

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed ... on a mission to evacuate government troops from the town of Nasir, the scene of the fighting in Upper Nile state, came under fire.

"The violence that started in March in Nasir seems to be spreading across a number of states in South Sudan," warned International Crisis Group's South Sudan senior analyst Daniel Akech.

more than 20 civilians were killed in aerial bombardments of Nasir, a town near the Ethiopian border in Upper Nile. Local residents accused the armies of South Sudan and Uganda of doing the ...

The top UN official in South Sudan has warned the country is on the ... On 4 March, the White Army reportedly overran a military garrison in Nasir, prompting a forceful government response ...

head of the UN mission in South Sudan, follow recent fighting between the army and a rebel militia, known as the White Army, at a military base in the northern town of Nasir in oil-rich Upper Nile ...