Amid lingering fears of another civil war in South Sudan, the Upper Nile state’s main opposition party is now mired in its own internal conflict. The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in ...

The politics of succession, where an incumbent leader grooms a successor to ensure continuity, works in states with strong ...

JUBA, South Sudan — Divisions emerged Wednesday ... He said choosing an interim chair was a way to resolve the party's leadership crisis. He also appealed for the release of Machar and other ...

South Sudan is admittedly a frustrating portfolio for policymakers. The country’s leadership is corrupt ... It also risks sleepwalking into a massive crisis as the conflicts in the Horn of ...

After separating from Sudan to become an independent state in 2011, South Sudan has experienced a succession of conflicts. The most deadly was the civil war of 2013, which caused the deaths of 400,000 ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile, as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen ... a South Sudan analyst at the International Crisis Group, a nongovernmental conflict prevention ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir removed the country’s long-serving chief justice and Supreme Court president ...

A disturbing humanitarian crisis is unfolding in West Kordofan, Sudan, marked by arbitrary arrests and torture of the elderly, with harrowing images ...

The Security Council's decision follows a spate of violence in South Sudan. In March 2025, a deadly attack was launched by ...

Okuk emphasized that the political leadership of South Sudan must prioritize national ... IGAD has set clear goals to "de-escalate the crisis and prioritize the implementation of the peace agreement." ...

South Sudan is already dealing with its own political crisis, which could tip the country back into an all-out civil war. “If things fall apart in South Sudan, then that would make it very ...