Yet, no one discounts that armies – strong and effective ones, are the most potent tool in state building. The natural question to ask then is; why does the UPDF deploy to South Sudan?

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar is unravelling, threatening a return to South Sudan’s bloody civil ... of a conflict that has been building for weeks in the world’s youngest ...

The civil war has spilled over Sudan’s borders, sending millions of refugees streaming into neighboring Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Egypt.

She was dead when she was carried away," says Hafiza quietly, as she describes how her mother was killed in a city under siege in Darfur, during Sudan's civil war, which began exactly two years ago.

South Sudan's minister of Peace building, Stephen Par Kuol, centre, addresses the media after being declared interim chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO), in ...

April 16, 2025 (JUBA) – South Sudan participated in a recent peace conference on Sudan held in London, reiterating its commitment to supporting a peaceful settlement of the conflict through ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war. Nicholas ...