List of South Sudan articles
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A UN peacekeeper from Rwanda walks through the remnants of a looted and burnt clinic in the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Malakal, on February 26, 2016. The United States forcefully condemned fatal clashes at a United Nations compound sheltering civilians in South Sudan and urged authorities to investigate the incident, which witnesses said involved government troops. At least 18 people and more than 70 others were wounded in the violence Wednesday to Thursday at the camp in the town of Malakal, the aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said. / AFP / Albert Gonzalez Farran (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan Rejects U.S. Push for More Peacekeepers Despite Bloodshed
Washington helped create the world's youngest country, but the standoff over the embattled and ineffectual U.N. force shows the United States is rapidly losing influence there.
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Young boys, children soldiers sit on February 10, 2015 with their rifles at a ceremony of the child soldiers disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration in Pibor oversawn by UNICEF and partners. UNICEF and its partners have overseen the release of another 300 children from the Cobra Faction armed group of former rebels of David Yau Yau. The children in Pibor, Jonglei State, surrendered their weapons and uniforms in a ceremony overseen by the South Sudan National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission, and the Cobra Faction and supported by UNICEF. They were to spend their first night in an interim care center where they will be provided with food, water and clothing. They will also have access to health and psychosocial services. AFP PHOTO/Charles LOMODONG / AFP / CHARLES LOMODONG (Photo credit should read CHARLES LOMODONG/AFP/Getty Images) Last Call to Cash In on a Vicious Civil War
Two-and-a-half years into South Sudan’s fighting, the U.N. might finally make it illegal to sell tanks and attack helicopters to the combatants.
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Nyal_top1 ‘They Will Find Us and Kill Us’
From murder to mass rape, a special report from the front lines of South Sudan’s civil war.
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TOPSHOT - South Sudanese civilians flee fighting in an United Nations base in the northeastern town of Malakal on February 18, 2016, where gunmen opened fire on civilians sheltering inside killing at least five people. Gunfire broke out in the base in Malakal in the northeast Upper Nile region on February 17, 2016 night, with clashes continuing on Thursday morning that left large plumes of smoke rising from burning tents in the camp which houses over 47,000 civilians. / AFP / Justin LYNCH (Photo credit should read JUSTIN LYNCH/AFP/Getty Images) Renewed Violence in South Sudan Threatens Fragile Peace Agreement
Former rebels accuse the government of attacking their camps with helicopter gunships as the world’s newest nation slides back toward civil war.
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South Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) national army soldiers patrol the streets with a pick-up truck after capturing the town of Bentiu, on January 12, 2014. Mediators pushed hard for a ceasefire in South Sudan as fighting raged today for the last rebel-held town and the full extent of the destruction wrought began to emerge. With up to 10,000 dead and nearly half a million displaced, the full scale of the destruction inflicted on the world's youngest nation is just starting to become clear. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) The Independence Day Nobody’s Celebrating
South Sudan’s peace deal is in tatters, its economy is in free-fall, and violence rages across the world’s youngest country.
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Refugee Runners Ready for Rio The Olympic Team With No Flag
The first Refugee Olympic Team will arrive in Rio dreaming of gold — and the countries they were forced to leave behind.
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First Vice President of South Sudan and former rebel leader, Riek Machar (L), and President Salva Kiir (R), sit for an official photo with the 30 members of the new cabinet of the Transitional Government at the Cabinet Affairs Ministry, in Juba on April 29, 2016. The new cabinet of the Transitional Government includes former rebels and members of the opposition, a step forward in a drawn-out peace process aimed at ending more than two years of conflict. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) The New York Times South Sudan Op-Ed That Wasn’t
The newspaper of record published an essay ostensibly co-written by South Sudan’s warring leaders. The problem is that one of them denies having any part in it.
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KABUL, May 23, 2016: An Afghan man reads the news of Taliban leader's death on a local newspaper in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, May 23, 2016. U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a U.S. airstrike. (Xinhua/Rahmat Alizadah via Getty Images) SitRep: Details on Mullah Mansour Strike; Talking Trump in South Sudan
U.S. commandos worried about ISIS in Asia; frozen out of the Arctic; and lots more
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BOR, SOUTH SUDAN - APRIL 2: South Sudanese former President Riek Machar and Riek Machar forces at the military camp in the Ismaila village of Jonguei state, Bor,South Sudan on March 30, 2014 following the failed coup attempt on December 16, 2013. (Photo by Kunfe Michael Habtemariam/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Talking Trump and War Crimes With South Sudan’s Rebel Leader
In an exclusive interview at his armed camp, Riek Machar accuses his rival of war crimes and blames the U.S. for prolonging the carnage.
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GettyImages-524504014 50,000 People Are Dead. So Why Won’t Obama Push for an Arms Embargo in South Sudan?
Now that South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is back in Juba, American lawmakers believe only an arms embargo can guarantee peace.
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South Sudanese rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar (C) sits in an army barracks in South Sudan's Upper Nile State on April 14, 2014. Conflict in South Sudan has triggered a serious risk of famine that will kill up to 50,000 children within months if immediate action is not taken, the UN has warned. The African country has experienced high levels of malnutrition since it gained independence in 2011, UNICEF said, and conditions have worsened since ethnic conflict broke out between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and supporters of his former deputy Riek Machar. AFP PHOTO / ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER (Photo credit should read ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan: Rebel Leader Did Not Return Because He Tried to Bring Laser Missiles With Him
South Sudan's rebel leader was supposed to show up in Juba on April 18. He still isn't there.
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Moroccan protesters hold placards and shout slogans in the capital Rabat, on March 13, 2016, during a demonstration against statements made by the United Nations chief earlier in the week regarding the Western Sahara, a disputed territory between Morocco and the Polisario Front, following his visit to a camp for refugees from the territory. Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Rabat to protest against UN chief Ban Ki-moon's "lack of neutrality" over Western Sahara. The UN has been trying to oversee an independence referendum for Western Sahara since 1992 after a ceasefire was reached to end a war that broke out when Morocco sent its forces to the former Spanish territory in 1975. The Algerian-backed Polisario Front is seeking independence for the territory, a demand ruled out by Morocco which argues for a broad autonomy for the territory under its sovereignty. Earlier this month Ban visited a camp in Algeria for refugees from Western Sahara as part of a regional tour and spoke of a "human tragedy". He also announced plans to re-launch UN-sponsored talks between Rabat and the Polisario Front. On March 8, the Moroccan government, in a statement issued by the foreign ministry, accused Ban of speaking out of line and of allegedly using the word "occupation" to describe the status of Western Sahara. / AFP / FADEL SENNA (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images) Just Say No to Another Failed State in Africa
It is never a good idea to make broad generalizations about Africa.
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LIBERATED ZONES, SUDAN - NOVEMBER 10: Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers train during a drill at military headquarters in a "liberated zone" in East Sudan 10 November 1999. The "liberated area" is an inhospitable desert with scattered populations and very little in the way of natural resources. The rebel movement has been fighting the Islamic government in Khartoum since 1989. The SPLA expect a major government offensive from the government held town of Kassala. (Photo credit should read STEVE FORREST/AFP/Getty Images) ‘They Are Proud of What They Are Doing’
South Sudan's warring leaders have unleashed a terrifying wave of sexual violence that nobody has been able to stop.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY AYMERIC VINCENOT Children flock with containers to a field demarcated for food-drops at a village in Nyal, an administrative hub of Panyijar county in Unity state, south Sudan, on February 24, 2015. Isolated by the Sudd,the world's largest marsh area, population Nyal is protected from the horrors of war that ravaged South Sudan but starved and exposed to disease. Almost all Panyijar County, about 60,000 people dependent on food aid parachuted by the World Food Programme (WFP) says local prefect Tap Puot John, a member of the "opposition" whose troops fighting the government army since December 2013 control the area.. AFP PHOTO/TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) After Madaya, Will the World Watch South Sudan Starve Too?
Humanitarians are warning that the starvation crisis in South Sudan has reached its worst levels yet.
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This picture taken on December 25, 2013 shows South Sudanese troops loyal to President Salva Kiir pictured at Bor airport after they re-captured it from rebel forces. South Sudan's army battled rebel forces in the key town of Malakal Wednesday, a minister said, as other troops flushed out remaining insurgent pockets a day after recapturing a strategic town. "We recaptured Bor on Tuesday evening, just before sunset, and this morning there are currently operations against some pockets of rebels within the airport area," Information Minister Michael Makwei told. AFP PHOTO/Samir BOL (Photo credit should read SAMIR BOL/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Panel Calls for Sanctions on South Sudan’s Warring Leaders
An unpublished report finds "clear and convincing evidence" that Salva Kiir and Riek Machar are responsible for widespread atrocities.
