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

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

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

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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