A divided UN Security Council narrowly voted to extend an arms embargo and sanctions on South Sudan amid rising political ...

A divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan, where escalating political tensions have ...

South Sudan’s government opposed the arms embargo, and six Security Council members abstained from the vote. The measure ...

Oil’s importance to South Sudan’s economy is often exaggerated – the bigger challenge facing Juba is its inability to secure ...

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

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

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

BBC Media Action began working in South Sudan in the lead-up to its historic ... and has focused on peaceful conflict resolution, tackling sexual and gender-based violence, and - now - engaging ...

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

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

The UN Security Council on Friday extended by one year the arms embargo and individual sanctions imposed on South Sudan, where recent violent clashes have raised the specter of a new civil war.