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

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 ...

Indiscriminate attacks, political scapegoating, and ethnic tensions risk sparking new civil war Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an ...

a loosely organized militia made up of members of the vice president’s Nuer minority, seized control over Nasir, a major town in South Sudan’s northeasternmost Upper Nile State, from the ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, March 8 (Reuters) - Increased violence and political friction in South Sudan threaten its fragile ... a loosely-organised group mostly from the Nuer, Machar's ethnic group.

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.

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 has formally been at peace since a 2018 ... a loosely-organised group mostly from Machar's Nuer ethnic group, and attacking a military garrison near the northern town of Nasir on ...