Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

The UN Human Rights Council established the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan under resolution A/HRC/RES/54/2 to investigate the alleged human rights and IHL violations ...

The top UN official, in a March 18, 2025 statement to the African Union Peace and Security Council Meeting on South Sudan ... raising concerns that the conflict could assume an ethnic dimension.

The UN experts also said fighters had been recruited in neighboring countries like Chad, Libya and the Central African Republic and sent to South Sudan. They added there were credible accusations ...

WFP said it needs an additional $150 million to help people who have fled to Chad, South Sudan, Central African Republic and elsewhere. “Without funding we either cut the number of people ...

A leaked UN ... south. On Tuesday, a summit began in London bringing together foreign ministers from around the world in an attempt to end the war and address the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

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 ...

which they said raised serious concerns over potential violations of the UN arms embargo. "We must not allow South Sudan to repeat the mistakes of the past," said commissioner Barney Afako.

UNHCR knows Sudan well – we have been present there for 60 years. In fact, I started my UN career inside Sudan ... and they go to countries with fragilities of their own, such as Chad and South Sudan, ...

according to the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan chair Yasmin Sooka. She says this raises serious concerns over potential violations of the UN arms embargo and the growing partisan ...

GENEVA, April 15 (Reuters) - Rape is being used systematically as a weapon of war in Sudan, a UN agency warned on Tuesday, as the conflict marks its second year. "We have seen a 288% increase in ...