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 ...

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

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

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has met with South Sudanese officials as concerns grow over a potential resurgence of civil war following the house arrest of the country’s main opposition leader.

There are fears of more conflict in South Sudan (AP) Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is expected to meet South Sudanese ...

“Extrajudicial killings are serious violations and their perpetrators, as well as those with command responsibility, must be held accountable,” said Thameen al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the Office of ...

RI interviewed IDPs in Juba and Wau, as well as UN and humanitarian ... the Troika and who supported South Sudan’s push for independence in 2011, expressed concerns over this most recent peace ...

Mudavadi warned that the influx, coupled with ongoing security concerns along the Ethiopia and Somalia borders, presents a major challenge to Kenya’s refugee management policies. NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 2 ...

The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, while briefing the media in New York on Tuesday, said the Mission in South Sudan described the situation in the country as relatively calm.

We thank the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for their report and update on the delivery of technical assistance to the Government of South Sudan. We are alarmed by dramatic ...

In late Decemeber 2013, the UN Security Council approved the deployment of additional ... Key Developments over the last one week Another civil war in South Sudan is not the wish of the international ...

On Thursday, Kiir sent his security forces to place Machar under house arrest, a move that now pushes South Sudan closer to the brink of an all-out civil war, according to the UN. Kiir accuses ...