A confidential UN report is warning that the war in South Sudan has reached "catastrophic proportions for civilians" and the rise of militias risks spinning out of control, fueling fighting for years...
South Sudan's army said Tuesday a general who quit after accusing President Salva Kiir and his tribe of "ethnic cleansing" was corrupt and had fled to evade arrest. Lieutenant-General Thomas Cirillo...
A senior South Sudanese general has quit, accusing President Salva Kiir and top members from his majority Dinka tribe of "ethnic cleansing," according to a resignation letter obtained by AFP Sunday....
A South Sudanese general has resigned, citing abuses by the security forces against civilians and what he called increasing ethnic favoritism in the military, according to a letter seen by Reuters on...
The United Nations has documented 217 victims of rape by South Sudanese government and rival forces since the beginning of renewed fighting in July 2016 that has claimed the lives of hundreds of...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has sacked his longer – serving central bank governor Korneilo Koryom Mayik and his deputy John Dor amidst the country economic collapse. This comes a week after...
It was on Tuesday, the 3rd of January, the first work day of 2017 when President Salva Kiir Mayardit inked the polemical appointment of Gen. Gregory Deng at J1. It was exactly the third day of the...
It was on Tuesday, the 3rd of January, the first work day of 2017 when President Salva Kiir Mayardit inked the polemical appointment of Gen. Gregory Deng at J1. It was exactly the third day of the...
Fake news circulating on social media alleging the assassination of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has increased tension in the country facing uncertainty after refusal of outgoing president...
Former South Sudan first vice-president Riek Machar has described as propaganda, reports that he is effectively being held under house arrest in the South African capital Pretoria. Machar’s party...
South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has called for a national dialogue to end the country’s three-year civil war. Kiir’s call comes at the start of the traditional fighting season and on the eve...
By Akwasi Brobbey The political process does not end on election day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders...
Some 3.6 million people in South Sudan face severe food shortages - the highest levels ever experienced at harvest time - and the crisis is likely to worsen when food from the current harvest runs...
The South Sudan government has agreed to accept the deployment of a UN-mandated regional force in Juba, a spokesman said, after months of hesitation over whether to allow extra foreign troops on its...
The United States proposed on Friday that the United Nations Security Council blacklist South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar, South Sudan army chief Paul Malong and South Sudan Information...
The United States circulated on Thursday to the 15-member United Nations Security Council a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions amid warnings by a...
For more than 25 years the people of South Sudan fought their powerful common enemy to a standstill. The enslaving Arab Islamist forces of north Sudan were matched fire for fire until the northerners...
If anybody had told me then, or over any succeeding ten (10) years from the CPA interim period to 15th December crisis in which he was then a Governor of Unity State and later the SPLM-IO chief...
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said there are still over 16,000 South Sudanese children involved in active combat among the various armed groups in the war-torn country despite the...
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July, sporadic gunfire rent the air in Juba, the capital city. What many assumed was a celebration of the world’s newest...
