The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid ... with fears that Nuer militias — perhaps with outside help from factions in Sudan — may try to take Malakal ...

South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict and political upheaval. On 4 March, a Nuer militia with ties to Riek Machar, a former rebel leader who is now first vice president, captured an army ...

Surge in violence The latest flare-up began on March 4, when a Nuer militia linked to Machar seized an army base in Nasir, a strategic town near the South Sudan-Ethiopia border. According to the ...

This month, a United Nations helicopter was attacked during an evacuation mission in a remote area in South Sudan, with one member ... s Dinka and Mr. Machar’s Nuer ethnic groups.

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

March 7, 2025 (JUBA) – South Sudan risks a return to full ... lines of the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, might be supplying the Nuer militia, exploiting historical ethnic divisions ...

Mogadishu — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud expressed Somalia's "full solidarity" with the people of South Sudan on Sunday ... from Machar's ethnic Nuer community. South Sudanese ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect ... of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force.

South Sudan's president appealed for calm and pledged ... a loose band of armed youths in the region from the same ethnic Nuer community as the vice president. Late Friday, local media reported ...

Uganda Deploys Special Forces to South Sudan to Protect the Government as ... accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba ...

Sudan hosts 613,000 South Sudanese refugees, with 411,000 residing in White Nile state, according to a Jan. 31 update from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR). The remainder are in other states ...

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...