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

The Commission noted that the situation is further exacerbated by the deployment of Ugandan troops and battle tanks into South Sudan following a request by the country’s President. The development ...

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has called on all parties to exercise restraint and uphold the peace agreement as violence escalates and reports emerge of the detention of First Vice President ...

In 2020, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) transitioned almost all the displacement sites, which had been under UN protection for seven years, into conventional camps under the ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

United Nations (UN) intensifies peacekeeping patrols at displacement camps amidst rising tensions and conflict in South Sudan ...

In addition to the escalating violence, the UN has raised concerns about the disruption of health services in Sudan, which has been worsened by significant funding cuts from major donors.

The comments by Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN mission in South Sudan, follow recent fighting between the army and a rebel militia, known as the White Army, at a military base in the northern ...

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 situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), late on Monday, as tension between forces allied with President Salva Kiir and ...

"This violence comes at a time when humanitarian funding is dwindling and urgent needs are rising -- not only in Upper Nile but across South Sudan," she added. The UN said the violence had claimed ...