List of South Sudan articles
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South Sudanese People Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier is pictured during a patrol in Malakal on January 21, 2014 a few days after retaking the town from rebel fighters. Pressure mounted on South Sudan's warring parties Tuesday to reach a ceasefire to end weeks of bitter fighting and atrocities on both sides that have devastated the young nation.Thousands have been killed and half a million civilians forced to flee the fighting between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebels allied to his sacked deputy Riek Machar. AFP PHOTO / HARRISON NGETHI (Photo credit should read HARRISON NGETHI/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Next Civil War Is Starting
Just when a peace deal seemed within reach, President Salva Kiir is threatening to plunge the country back into bloody conflict.
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A Sudanese soldier stands atop a destroyed tank for the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) of South Sudan in the oil region of Heglig on April 23, 2012. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said during his visit to Heglig that there will be no more talks with South Sudan after weeks of border fighting in contested regions and tension between the two states. AFP PHOTO/ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/GettyImages) No Foreign Aid, No Peace in South Sudan
South Sudan’s leaders tore their country apart. Now they want Western donors to pay to put it back together again.
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GettyImages-494802144 crop No Money, No Peace
The United States made South Sudan’s leaders sign a peace deal — but they can’t make it work without cash.
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Riek Machar, South Sudanese Rebel Leader, looks on during an interview at his residence on August 31, 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The two warring parties have recently signed a comprehensive peace agreement earlier this month, after several failed attempts since the outbreak of conflict in December of 2013. AFP PHOTO / ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER (Photo credit should read ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudanese Rebel Leader Blasts the U.S. After Cold Shoulder From the White House
Riek Machar signed a peace deal designed to end one of Africa's worst conflicts, but he says U.S. neglect could unravel it.
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GettyImages-458226218_960 Where Women Are Leading the Peace
A new study shows where — and how — women are at the vanguard of ending conflict. And why their voices make armistices stronger.
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GettyImages-485263230_960 South Sudan’s Peace Deal Never Stood a Chance
Until the West starts making the war hurt for corrupt elites, the bloody civil war will go on.
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A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier waves his AK-47 as soldiers celebrate alongside Internally Displaced People (IDP) outside the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Malakal after the SPLA claimed it had recaptured the town from rebels on March 19, 2014. The northeastern town of Malakal, capital of oil-producing Upper Nile state, has been one of the hardest fought battlegrounds in the conflict, in which thousands have been killed. South Sudan's government has been at war with rebel groups since December 15, when a clash between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting across the world's newest nation. AFP PHOTO / IVAN LIEMAN (Photo credit should read Ivan Lieman/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Peace Deal May Not Be Worth the Paper It’s Written On
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir signed a much anticipated peace agreement Wednesday. But with 12 pages of reservations, is the agreement much of a step forward at all?
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A man reads a copy of the Juba Monitor, with a heading referring to the killing of South Sudanese journalist Peter Moi of The New Nation newspaper, on August 21, 2015 in Juba. Gunmen shot dead the South Sudan reporter in an apparently targeted attack, colleagues said August 20, days after President Salva Kiir publicly threatened to kill journalists who reported "against the country." He is the seventh journalist killed this year in the war-ravaged country. After the killing of Moi on August 20, journalists in Juba have decided to stop work for two days in tribute to him and to many other similar individuals. AFP PHOTO / SAMIR BOL Radio-Silenced in the World’s Newest Country
South Sudan’s journalists are being murdered and jailed. But could a new peace deal end the country’s war on press freedom?
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GettyImages-480211052_960 How to Destroy a War Economy
To end the conflicts plaguing Africa, the United States needs to follow the money being made off of them — and stop it.
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South Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) national army soldiers gather 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) South Sudan’s Endless Nightmare
The international community is finally grappling with the bloody horrors of South Sudan. But it might be too little, too late for its most desperate and displaced.
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GettyImages-478391335_960 When War and Weather Conspire
In an increasingly vicious cycle, conflict pushes people from their homes — then floods or landslides force them out of the U.N. tents where they took shelter.
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GettyImages-454292355 cropped Africa’s Angry Young Men
No school, no job, no future. Why so many of Africa's young men choose militias.
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JAW, SOUTH SUDAN - JULY 2: Sudanese refugees walk along the border road after crossing from North Sudan carrying their possessions July 2, 2012 in Jaw, South Sudan. Many refugees walk from four days to two weeks, fleeing the on-going conflict, to get to Yida refugee camp from the Nuba mountain region where they have no food. The Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000 people as the refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan, with 300-600 people arriving daily. The rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children suffering from Diarrhea and severe malnutrition, as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population. Most have arrive with only the clothes they are wearing. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) U.N.’s Refugee Mission in Africa Is ‘Fighting Fires’ as Funding Falls Short
As conflicts spiral out of control across the African continent, the U.N.'s refugee chief in Africa thinks that without funding, more refugees will link up with extremists or seek passage to Europe.
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Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) government soldiers from the 2nd Battalion pose at the SPLA headquarters in Nyang, in the county of Yirol East, South Sudan, on February 15, 2014. Fighting between forces loyal to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar erupted on December 15, sparking heavy clashes across the country that have left thousands dead and displaced close to 900,000 people. AFP PHOTO / FABIO BUCCIARELLI (Photo credit should read FABIO BUCCIARELLI/AFP/Getty Images) Is Khartoum Sending Weapons to Rebels in South Sudan?
A new report alleges Sudan is helping fuel a conflict that has helped spark a famine and a refugee crisis.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 7: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta turns to speak to a member of his delegation during the Somali conference, on May 7, 2013 in London, England. The international conference aims to help rebuild the east African country after more more than two decades of conflict. (Photo by Andrew Winning - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Kenya Wades Into the South Sudan Morass
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has a plan to kickstart the stalled peace process. Can he broker a deal before famine strikes the world’s newest nation?
