The AU chair released a statement on Monday, days after Raila's attempts to mediate in the nation suffered a setback.

A humanitarian crisis is rapidly unfolding on both sides of the South Sudan-Ethiopia border, as escalating violence, displacement and a widespread cholera outbreak are pushing communities to the brink ...

Kenya’s special envoy to South Sudan, Raila Odinga, returned to the country on Saturday after a high-stakes meeting with ...

Raila Odinga's attempt to meet South Sudan VP Riek Machar fails after President Kiir declines request, Machar to remain under ...

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 one of the country’s ...

Nation.Africa understands, Mr Odinga was to fly to Juba on Friday morning to meet with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and ...

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

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

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace deal looks ever more fragile. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan ... a town engulfed in fighting in the oil-producing Upper Nile state near the border with Sudan (see map). Mr Kiir has had several of his rival ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to ... the scene of the fighting in Upper Nile state, was shot at. Earlier in the week, after ...