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

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

Fighting in South Sudan has left more than 180 people dead and forced 125,000 others to flee their homes since March, the ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

Riek Machar, were willing to engage “and put the interests of their people ahead of their own”. There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a ...

In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded and formed a new state: the Republic of South Sudan. The dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir defined Sudan’s post-colonial period. Bashir seized ...

About 30 percent of Sudan’s 48 million people – more than 14 million – have been forced to flee their homes. Amnesty International documents 36 cases of women and girls as young as 15 ...

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