Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that the world’s youngest nation — and one of its poorest — could ...

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 ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world's newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

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.

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.

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ...