As a guarantor of the peace agreement, the African Union must urgently take action to de-escalate political tensions.On 26 March, security personnel led by South Sudan's defence minister and national ...

Escalating violence between factions led by the president and vice president, compounded by regional proxy dynamics, risks ...

The nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms of Abyei Special Administrative Area (ASAA) on Thursday held a one-day event in Abyei Town to ...

He saw the majority of his family perish in Sudan’s ongoing civil war and is revered as a ... he said he moved to Utah and now dedicates his life to telling the story of his Dinka people. In ...

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that the world’s youngest nation — and one of its poorest — could swiftly lapse ...

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

Months of clashes between Kiir's forces and those loyal to the first vice-president Machar, who was arrested in March, have ...

The same year, Machar was blamed for an ethnic massacre of Dinka people in Bor carried out by ... him with the positions of vice-president of Sudan and chairman of the coordinating council that ...

Dhieu Deng Leek is a former Lostboy of Sudan who left for USA over 10 years ... There are about 19 thousand people living in those scattered islands in the Sudd areas. With area infested by ...

But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest ... war that killed an estimated 400,000 people. Machar has served as South Sudan’s No. 2 official on and off since ...