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(JUBA, South Sudan) — In a stern warning, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging South Sudan’s warring government and rebel leaders to uphold a monthslong promise to embrace a cease-fire or risk the specter of genocide through continued...

By Aaron Maasho and Carl Odera Uganda’s president said on Monday East African nations had agreed to unite to defeat South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar if he rejected a ceasefire offer, threatening to turn an outburst of ethnic fighting into...

More than one million people have been forced from their homes by the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, the UN says. Of these, 803,200 have been displaced within the country, and another 254,000 have fled to neighbouring countries, according to the latest...

Mail and Guardian As peace talks are set to take place, South Sudan’s army says its troops are moving again on the town of Bor in a bid to wrest it back from rebels. South Sudan’s warring parties gathered in Ethiopia on Thursday for talks...

South Sudan has arrested about 100 army officers from President Salva Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group over recent violence in the country. “A good number of officers have been arrested — about 100 who were engaged in this — of the...