South Sudan
South Sudan leaders order cease-fire as civil war fears grow
South Sudan’s president and vice president ordered their rival forces to cease hostilities on Monday after days of fighting threatened to plunge...
Witnesses relive horror of men and boys locked in container and left to die
Harrowing accounts of the moment 60 men and boys were locked up in a sweltering container and left to suffocate were revealed in a report on Friday.
Witnesses: We saw 60 men and boys locked in container and left to die
Harrowing accounts of the moment 60 men and boys were locked up in a sweltering container and left to suffocate were revealed in a report on Friday.
Dozens killed as plane crashes during take-off in South Sudan
A Russian-built cargo plane has crashed in South Sudan shortly after take-off from Juba International Airport, killing at least 41 people on board and...
Report suggests war crimes, cannibalism and other atrocities in South Sudan
Forced cannibalism, mutilation of bodies, conscription of child soldiers and other human rights abuses have marked the war in South Sudan and may amount...
South Sudan leader signs peace deal amid sanctions threat
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday signed a peace deal with rebels, more than 20 months after the start of fighting between the army and rebels...
South Sudan peace talks collapse, suspended indefinitely
South Sudan’s warring leaders failed to reach a deal to end more than a year of civil war, mediators said, with the latest collapse in peace talks...
At least 30 feared dead as bus collides with truck in S. Sudan
More than 30 people were killed when a bus collided with a cargo truck on a highway linking South Sudan to Uganda, police and a witness said Monday, and...
World averts gaze as South Sudan famine threatens a million children
South Sudan’s food crisis is now the worst in the world, the UN Security Council said Friday as it called for urgent funding to step up deliveries...
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