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

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 ...

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 ...

including the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) signed in 2018, the implementation of these agreements has been slow, and violence has persisted.

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

If the warring sides continue to refuse a cease-fire or peace talks, that could yield a situation similar to what has occurred in Libya and Yemen: a de facto split in which Sudan remains intact in ...

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 ...