The world’s youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state ...

New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera. The biggest development was an alliance in February between ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

Analysts are urging the international community to push for peace in the fragile country.In South Sudan, the world's youngest ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

South Sudan has criticized the revocation of U.S. visas for all its nationals as unfair and said it was based on an incident ...

South Sudan, since seceding from Sudan in 2011 ... Simply put, recent Sudanese history has shown that partition is not a risk-free solution to civil war. How has shifting geopolitics affected ...

As president, he oversaw the Second Sudanese Civil War, the secession of South Sudan, and the conflict in Darfur. The Darfur war, which broke out in 2003, was later condemned by the International ...

Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a growing rift between ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

South Sudan’s five-year civil war, in which 400,000 people were killed ... Machar was “in confinement by the government” and ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the arrest of VP Riek Marchar saying it brings South Sudan "closer" to civil war.