Fifteen women in Tore Payam, Yei River County, Central Equatoria State, have graduated from a six-month tailoring and ...

The German government is temporarily closing its embassy in South Sudan. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that “after ...

A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

and South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. In the early years of South Sudan’s independence, peace processes failed to address long-standing grievances and ...

In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded and formed a new state: the Republic of South Sudan. The dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir defined Sudan’s post-colonial period. Bashir seized ...

In a decree read on state TV late on Wednesday, Kiir sacked Upper Nile governor James Odhok Oyay who is from SPLM-IO and replaced him with James Koang Chuol, a lieutenant general who hails from Nasir.

Internal rebellion remains unlikely in South Sudan because family ties and a small, insular leadership circle dominate the government. Though occasional internal wrangling and hustling occur ...