Disputes between the two over border demarcations have been ongoing but heavy, armed fighting has been rare until now.

Troops from Uganda and South Sudan have clashed along their border, resulting in at least four deaths. A Ugandan military official reported the incident on Wednesday.

Uganda sent troops to support Kiir when civil war broke out in South Sudan in 2013, two years after it gained independence ...

While minor clashes have occurred in the past, such deadly confrontations between the two allied forces remain rare.

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KAMPALA – Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a return ...

At least six people have been killed in clashes between longstanding allies South Sudan and Uganda near their shared border, where competing claims over the poorly defined boundary often flare into ...

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a return to civil war ...