Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil ...
The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again ...
Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva ...
Many South Sudanese, including many Nuer, have joined Sudan's war on both sides. Local alliances could shift frequently. For now, hostilities are centred in Upper Nile, but the tinder is ...
A Nuer militia with ties to Machar overran a government ... threatening the fragile 2018 peace deal that ended a five-year civil war. “Hostilities in Upper Nile could be the first major violent ...
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when ... Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba ...
The White Army, a militia tied to Machar’s Nuer community, later took control ... is a demonstration of clear proxy war between the two leaders,” Yakani said. Meanwhile, in the capital Juba ...