The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ...

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

Another conflict is looming in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and ...

Then, on Thursday, Kiir sacked the governor of Upper Nile State, who hailed from Machar's party. A young nation, with a troubled past. The UN has a large mission to South Sudan, with some 20,000 ...

Machar serves as the country's first vice president in a government of national unity ... South Sudan, with Kiir suspicious of his deputy's ambitions and Machar calling Kiir a dictator. The State ...

Violence quickly spread to the states of Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Unity ... the state’s revenue. Amid a deteriorating security environment, fighting in Sudan could spill over into South Sudan ...

Uganda Deploys Special Forces to South ... unity, Kulayigye told The Associated Press Tuesday. Kiir and Museveni are allies, and Museveni has in the past intervened in the South Sudan conflict ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect ... in a delicate government of national unity, Kulayigye told The Associated Press ...