South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

Fighting between rival forces resumes in South Sudan, while a full-scale civil war rages in neighbouring Sudan.

Floods arrive without warning; droughts linger longer than expected. Yet amid these rising uncertainties, a collective tide ...

JUBA, South Sudan — The main opposition group in South ... and destroyed civilian infrastructure in Upper Nile state.” The government, which has ordered civilians to leave Nasir, couldn ...

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan’s main opposition ... overran an army base in Upper Nile state and attacked a U.N helicopter. The government responded with airstrikes, warning any civilian ...

On Saturday, the German government was the latest to temporarily close its embasy in the capital Juba. "After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is once ... country's Upper Nile state.

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...