Among the posthumous awardees of Dag Hammarskjold medals are: Sepoy Muhammad Tarique and Havildar Ahsan Ullah Khan who both served with UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). (Abyei is an area ...

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 on Friday warned of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan amid an uptick in hostilities, ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the hostilities could further worsen ...

China’s ambassador to South Sudan said construction on the Juba-Rumbek highway, the country’s first oil-for-infrastructure ...

Hostilities between the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army – In Opposition (SPLA-IO) and their respective allied armed groups, have left at least 75 ...

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

Chuol, like many others, said he fled airstrikes in Nasir and sought refuge in Burbeiye, but was forced to flee again after ...

UN peacekeepers have helped end brutal civil wars, reduced dangerous tensions and allowed historic elections. But their lifesaving work is at risk.

South Sudan’s leaders must be held accountable for dragging the nation back toward the ...

The African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN), and peace monitors in South Sudan on Thursday called on the country's leaders to cease hostilities and urgently resume dialogue to advance the ...