The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling "over the abyss" ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ...

Barrel bombs believed to contain a highly flammable liquid have been used in airstrikes in South Sudan as escalating violence ...

The South Sudan opposition said one of its army bases near the capital Juba was bombarded late Monday as Washington warned it was "deeply concerned" by escalating violence between the rival ...

Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is alarmed by the escalating armed clashes in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, which have displaced thousands and restricted access to healthcare ...

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

Then, on Thursday, Kiir sacked the governor of Upper Nile State, who hailed from Machar's party. A young nation, with a troubled past. The UN has a large mission to South Sudan, with some 20,000 ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir ... overran a military base in Nasir County, the northeastern Upper Nile state, earlier in March. In response, South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Machar ...

“With cholera spreading rapidly and violence ongoing, the need for medical care in Upper Nile State is more critical than ever,” said Zakaria Mwatia, MSF head of mission in South Sudan.