South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Thursday declared a state of emergency in areas hit by deadly inter-communal clashes over cattle raids that have killed hundreds of people in recent months, state ...

Africa has reported approximately 130,000 cholera cases and over 2,700 deaths, accounting for 60% of global cases and a ...

Sudan’s former prime minister has told The Associated Press that the military's recent victories will not end the country's ...

Wiyuach Makuach sat on her bed in a dimly lit ward of a hospital near South Sudan’s border with Ethiopia and rested her ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has reshuffled the senior leadership in the ruling party, according to an official decree, as the country faces fresh fighting between rival armed factions and ...

The incident occurred amid rising insecurity in South Sudan, with renewed clashes between forces loyal to Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar. The UN had warned that the country risked sliding ...

South Sudan’s government on Thursday denied that ... He has also moved decisively against his long-time rival and the current first vice-president, Riek Machar, placing him under house arrest ...

A Catholic bishop in the Africa’s youngest country has directed the people under his care to participate in daily prayers for peace amid testimonies of rising tension in South Sudan and reports ...

The vice president's detention took South Sudan "one step closer to the edge of collapse into civil war", a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.

South Sudan’s fragile peace agreement has effectively collapsed after heavily armed soldiers raided the home of Vice-President Riek Machar and placed him under house arrest, leaders of his ...

South Sudan's ex-vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar gestures as he arrives for a meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir at the presidential office in Juba on October 19, 2019 ...