It’s not immediately clear why the hospital was targeted, or by whom, but the attack comes amid fears the country is on the brink of returning to civil war amid growing tensions between South ...

Two years later, the country was in a bloody civil war fueled by ethnic violence, with Mr. Machar on one side and Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, on the other.

When civil war erupted in the capital in 2013, the South African firm building a new passenger terminal left. “Maybe one day they will come back,” hopes Mr Samuel.

That decision could collapse South Sudan’s economy and drag it directly into Sudan’s intractable civil war between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), experts warned.

Five years of civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. A peace deal reached in 2018 has been fragile and not fully implemented, to the frustration of the U.S. and other international backers.

Assessments of the impact of Sudan’s war on South Sudan suggest the worst: oil revenues would account for and . This informs the in case of a breakdown of oil exports. The is that a shutdown of ...

South Korea’s economy contracted in the first quarter after large-scale wildfires and political turmoil over its president’s impeachment suppressed consumer sentiment and business activities.