The Latest Breaking News from South Sudan

It was the deadliest incident in a spate of attacks since 2021 in the oil-rich Abyei border region.

FCDO cuts hit most vulnerable hardest, report says, with girl in South Sudan more likely to die in childbirth than finish school

Afghanistan maintains its unfortunate position as the least peaceful country globally for the eighth consecutive year.

A historic trial, which will call on 61 witnesses worldwide, is expected to set a precedent for global corporations in foreign jurisdictions

Lebanon, Palestinian Territories and Russia have all seen notable risk rating increases

Millions of innocent men, women, and children urgently need help.

Social media platforms have been implicated in conflicts of all scales, from urban gun violence to the storming of the US Capitol building on January 6 and civil war in South Sudan. Scientifically, it is difficult to tell how much social media can be blamed for one-off incidents.

South Sudan is struggling to cope with the increasing flow of refugees pouring from neighbouring Sudan, where a six-month conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Visiting the country this week to assess the situation, three French MPs met with President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar.

At 11, the South Sudanese refugee was forced to flee his Ethiopian village and spent several years in Kakuma camp in Kenya. His work helping others there won UN recognition and a prestigious award – now he’s planning to fund a library

UN report on human rights violations says security service monitoring of the media could hamper elections in 2024

At least 5.4 million people have been displaced by the fierce fighting that broke out in the country in April