The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its emergency response in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, where escalating ...

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator arrived in South Sudan on Friday to visit one of the most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world, as clashes between government and opposition forces ...

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s (hereafter “HRC” or “Council”) 61st regular session (23 February – 31 March 2026), we, ...

The United Nations' peacekeeping chief is warning that political deadlock in South Sudan is sharply escalating violence, putting the world’s newest nation on a “dangerous precipice." ...

An 18-month-old boy lies motionless on a dirty hospital bed deep in the conflict zone of South Sudan, a bullet wound in his ...

The key issue for many South Sudanese is the security arrangement. The deal outlined how former rebel forces and government soldiers would be brought together into a unified national army made up of ...

The government of President Salva Kiir has been accused of gross incompetence, as fighting between rebels and security forces pushes toward the capital.

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir stunned many after he appointed a dead man to a panel preparing for long-delayed elections in the country.

Cuts in aid programs limit resources to help people affected by conflict as well as those fleeing war in Sudan.

Kristin Davis, actor and Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, visited South Sudan last week to see the organization’s response to the deepening emergency caused by the war in Sudan – ...

Vast stretches of a once-verdant acacia forest south of Sudan's capital Khartoum have been reduced to little more than fields ...

Armed assailant entered a UN compound on Tuesday and opened fire, killing the WFP ...