South Sudan

Pope urges end to ethnic hatred at open-air mass in South Sudan

The pope had promised to travel to South Sudan, when he hosted rival leaders Salva Kiir and Riek Machar at a Vatican retreat but four years since that meeting violence remains a problem in the country.

Pope Francis takes peace mission to South Sudan after DRC

The "pilgrimage of peace" is the first-ever papal visit to the country since the predominantly Christian nation gained independence from Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011.

30,000 civilians flee as raids, clashes engulf South Sudan's eastern states

UN agencies express 'grave concern' over ongoing violence and call on South Sudan's leaders to investigate and hold accountable all perpetrators of the conflict.

Ethnic fighting kills dozens in eastern South Sudan

A government official says 56 people have lost their lives in four days of ethnic clashes in the eastern Jonglei state.

Tribal clashes kill at least 12 people in Sudan's Darfur

Authorities declared a state of emergency and imposed a nighttime curfew in Beleil to help stop the clashes.

Sudan's Darfur region: at least 11 killed in clashes

Conflicts in Sudan's far-flung regions have killed around 900 people this year and driven almost 300,000 from their homes, UN office reports.

South Sudan violence leaves 166 civilians dead, thousands displaced: UN

Deadly conflict is a continuation of fighting that started in August in a village in Upper Nile over grazing areas and use of natural resources and has since spread to other states.

South Sudan violence results in deaths, thousands displaced: UN

The UN says in the latest episode of fighting in the country's Upper Nile state that started in mid-November, over 9,000 people had been displaced.

Millions of people on the verge of hunger in South Sudan

Around 7.76 million people are likely to face acute food insecurity during the April-July 2023 lean season while 1.4 million children will be malnourished in the east African country, according to a UN report.

Child killed in South Sudan's first cholera outbreak in five years

South Sudan recorded a total of 31 cholera infections including one death of a seven-year-old child, as the outbreak followed a steady rise in diarrhoea cases in the affected areas.

UN experts suggest extension of arms embargo on South Sudan

Specialists' report presented to UN Security Council says the situation in South Sudan is far from a change and the peace deal has become a lucrative venue for elite power politics.

South Sudan's Kiir integrates rival's fighters into army

President Salva Kiir orders military officers loyal to his Vice President Riek Machar to be officially integrated into a unified command of the army, a central pillar of the 2018 peace deal.