While conflict isn't inevitable, a convergence of familiar patterns in South Sudan has significantly increased the risk of ...

Crisis Group experts Daniel Akech and Chris Newton on how the latest famine warning reveals the humanitarian toll of a political fight that risks reigniting civil war.The 12 June update by the ...

Save the Children says 2.3 million children under the age of five in South Sudan have been pushed into life threatening acute ...

After separating from Sudan to become an independent state in 2011, South Sudan has experienced a succession of conflicts. The most deadly was the civil war of 2013, which caused the deaths of 400,000 ...

Heidi Riley, King's College London*Some pseudonyms are used to protect the identities of interviewees.“I saw a lot of suffering.” The old man, Lokwi, gestu ...

The dynamic duo embraced the theme for the day by launching a new song, commissioned by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, as part of a campaign to promote peace in the world’s youngest ...

February, the peace deal that ended South Sudan’s brutal civil war in 2018 has been under its greatest threat yet. Fighting ...

The South Sudan government had designated the county where the attack took place, inhabited by a majority of people belonging to the Nuer ethnic group, as “hostile” by ethnicity. On May 2, 2025, the ...

“The government is using natural resources to kill its own people because of their identity as Nuer,” and perceived ... warned of South Sudan’s rapidly deteriorating security situation ...

He added that at least 25 people were ... an ethnically Nuer part of the country that has been historically associated with the opposition party loyal to Riek Machar, South Sudan's first vice ...