"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...