Health providers in Sudan have recorded 221 cases of rape since the start of 2024, according to a UNICEF report, including ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. But the country ...

UNITED NATIONS — (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed ... ethnic divisions when forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, battled those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer.

South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, the second-largest in the country. Clashes this month in the town of Nasir ...

or SPLM — that secured South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011. Advertisement Article continues below this ad But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest ...

When South Sudan’s civil war erupted in 2013, Nasir was engulfed in violence. Government troops – largely of Dinka origin – perceived the Nuer-majority town as enemy territory. Their ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South ... Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013 largely based on ethnic divisions when forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic ...