South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar is planning to return to Juba in May under a power-sharing deal that a UN envoy said Tuesday offered the "best chance" of ending the war. UN envoy David Shearer ...

The United Nations Security Council had expressed serious concern over the failure of South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to Juba to take up his old post as deputy to President Salva ...

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, ending decades of civil war. Two years later, another civil war ...

South Sudan’s oil exports faced a new threat after rebels in war-torn Sudan seized facilities key to transporting crude to the Red Sea. Workers fled and operations were halted at Heglig, an oil hub in ...

South Sudan said it was still pumping oil to facilities in neighboring Sudan crucial to its crude exports, even after rebels captured the production hub on Monday. As the Heglig site fell to the Rapid ...

November 30, 2025 (AL-ABBASIYA, South Kordofan) – Sudan’s army has recaptured several villages in South Kordofan state from a rebel group that has controlled them since 2011, videos verified by local ...

Three governments that were central in South Sudan’s peace process have urged leaders to end renewed fighting and focus on implementing the peace agreement that ended a deadly conflict NAIROBI, Kenya ...