Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South SudanThe South Sudanese army recaptured the town of Nasir on 19 April, in a setback for the opposition militia that had seized it ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance ...

There are alarming signs that history is about to repeat as domestic political factions position themselves for a return to ...

Pope Francis kissed the feet of South Sudan's rival leaders in a dramatic call for peace. His death rekindles memories of this powerful moment.

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s ...

South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In ...

Image South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, left, and its vice president, Riek Machar, in 2019. They are now bitterly at odds.Credit...Sam Mednick/Associated Press Mr. Akech of the International ...

The euphoria of independence turned to civil war two years later, when rival factions backing President Salva Kiir and deputy Riek Machar opened fire on each other in South Sudan’s capital ...