South Sudan is the youngest and poorest country on the planet, and a new civil war is one it can ill-afford after 400,000 ...

The US revoked visas for South Sudanese passport holders due to the nation's refusal to accept repatriated citizens, aligning ...

Khaman Maluach's rise to stardom over the past year with the South Sudan national team and Duke Blue Devils may have appeared ...

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 ...

in which over 2,000 mostly Dinka civilians were killed. In 2012, he publicly apologized for his part in the tragedy. Following South Sudan's independence in July 2011, Machar became the first vice ...

The head of the peacekeeping mission in the country said President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar must put the interests of the South Sudanese ... an ethnic Dinka, clashed with ...

In an apparent attempt to boost his stature as a leader of the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe after the Dinka, Machar has kept in his possession a ceremonial stick once carried by a ...