Juba's new order aims to rein in private armies, but history shows the path to ...

Global concern had once again shifted to South Sudan, where a long-simmering conflict had claimed thousands of lives, ...

In 2015, as a civil war was raging in South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council imposed the first set of sanctions on ...

The UN Security Council is due to vote in late May on whether to renew an arms embargo on South Sudan for another year.

Attempts to encourage peaceful dialogue are hampered by the generational legacies of ethnic conflict, including South Sudan’s ...

All around Egypt's borders, African countries descend into a widening arc of civil wars and state collapse. To the south, ...

Two years into Sudan’s brutal war, regional powers fuel the violence while Western nations offer aid but no political ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir may have offered a glimpse into his succession plan, even though he has not yet indicated ...

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...

Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to renew its arms embargo against South Sudan on Wednesday. The embargo is a part of a series of sanctions that have been in place since ...

As hostilities escalate across South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council should renew its arms embargo on the country.