The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

When power is informal and succession rules are unclear, chaos follows. This is ...

NAIROBI - Increased violence and political friction in South Sudan threaten its fragile peace process, a United Nations ...

President William Ruto has urged South Sudan President Salva Kiir and the first Vice President Riek Machar to engage in ...

NAIROBI - South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First ...

South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday, after the arrests ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudanese forces have arrested the peacebuilding minister, a spokesman for Vice President Riek Machar said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the country's fragile peace ...

The aircraft came under fire as it tried to rescue wounded soldiers, the United Nations said. The attack came amid fears that ...

A United Nations helicopter attempting to evacuate South Sudanese troops came under fire in the northern town of Nasir on Friday, the U.N. mission there said, resulting in the death of a crew member ...

The United Nations said the incident, which could deal a blow to an already fragile peace process, was "utterly abhorrent" ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud expressed Somalia's "full solidarity" with the people of South Sudan on Sunday, as political tensions escalated in the neighboring country following the arrest ...

On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...