South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appealed for calm following a series of escalating political and security tensions, ...

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva ...

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However, the independence movement, led by Kiir’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), quickly splintered. By 2013, the country had descended into full-scale civil war. The fighting killed more ...

JUBA, South Sudan - A United Nations (UN) helicopter was attacked in South Sudan on Friday, officials said, just as tensions ...

It is the 2nd time in 5 years Uganda has deployed troops in another country without seeking parliament approval ...

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IGAD heads of state and government have urged South Sudan leaders to collectively resolve not to take the country back to war by de-escalating and exercising restraint.The leaders say ;the Revitalised ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, regional mediators are scrambling, and a US evacuation is underway.

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as ... Last week a South Sudanese general was among several ...

A fragile power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President ... which killed a crew member. An army general also died during the operation, the UN said.