Peace talks in south sudan
Money, guns and brides fuel South Sudan's cattle wars
Observers blame a deadly cocktail of factors for the rising body count: a breakdown of law and order in the war-torn nation, an influx of guns and inflation in...
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South Sudan denies kidnapping, executing prominent critics
South Sudan rejects UN allegations its security services kidnapped two prominent government critics exiled in Kenya in 2017.
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In South Sudan, illness is as deadly as war
After being given medication he lies fast asleep, naked and feverish, attached to a drip, his anxious mother sitting on the bed next to him.
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President Kiir apologises to South Sudan for years of civil war suffering
He was speaking at a peace ceremony in the capital Juba attended by the returned rebel leader Riek Machar who’s been restored a vice president.
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South Sudan rebel leader Machar: We are for peace
The new deal aims to end a civil war that erupted in the world's youngest country in December 2013 and uprooted about four million people - roughly a third of the population.
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South Sudan govt agrees to peace deal with hope to end war
South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011, but civil war broke out two years later between the government led by Kiir and a rebel movement led by Machar.
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South Sudan, facing humanitarian crisis, waives some fees for aid groups
South Sudan has been criticised in the past for imposing massive charges on aid groups and their workers to register them to operate in the country.
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UN moves to protect South Sudan civilians after years of criticism
South Sudan was the world’s youngest country when it became independent from neighbouring Sudan in 2011 following decades of conflict.
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Fighting between South Sudan rival rebel groups wounds two
South Sudan’s war has largely been fought between the forces of Kiir, a Dinka, and the SPLA-IO of former vice president Machar, a Nuer.
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South Sudan rebel Machar declines to renounce violence – mediator
Rather than speaking with one voice, regional leaders have largely worked on South Sudan on a bilateral basis.
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South Sudan deports three US citizens who served in military
Social media accounts and a magazine interview in the names of two of the men suggested they had recently been fighting pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
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Africa leaders push South Sudan sides to revive peace, delay vote
The forum would be set up urgently, leaders from the East African bloc IGAD said, without specifying when or what form it would take.
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Last Japanese troops leave UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan
Oil-rich South Sudan has been ravaged by civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
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South Sudan president replaces army chief
President Salva Kiir has appointed General James Ajongo as the new army chief, said Minister of Defence Kuol Manyang Juuk.
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War forces 2 million South Sudanese children to flee homes
The civil war in the oil-producing country began two years after it won independence from neighbouring Sudan.
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Crisis-hit South Sudan hikes fees to register aid agencies
The new order will require an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) seeking to work in South Sudan to pay $3,500, up from $600.
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South Sudan Africa’s 'worst refugees’ crisis' country
According to the UN, more than three years of civil war in South Sudan has forced 1.5 million people to flee into neighboring countries.
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South Sudan president says soldiers who rape should be shot
South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in 2013 when Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, an ethnic Nuer.
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US worries about spiralling violence in South Sudan - State Department
The US has confirmed that more than 1,900 houses have been destroyed in the Central Equatoria of South Sudan.
