At least 200 South Sudanese civilians have died when a boat, packed with people escaping fighting between government forces and rebels, capsized.
South Sudan’s loyalist troops head for the last major rebel-held town as the UN urges President Salva Kiir to release detainees loyal to Riek Machar.
Civil war looms after rebels spurn a proposal to end the violence raging across South Sudan.
South Sudan’s rebels and a government delegation have begun peace talks in Ethiopia to try end fighting that has killed at least 1 000 people.
Delegates from South Sudan’s warring factions are expected to meet for talks in the Ethiopian capital on Sunday.
Talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels have been put on hold until an agenda has been drafted by negotiators and agreed on by both sides.
The warring parties of South Sudan have opened peace talks with negotiators in Ethiopia, but rival leaders have yet to meet face to face.
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.
Government and rebel negotiating teams have gathered in Addis Ababa for talks aimed at ending a nearly three-week-old civil war in South Sudan.
Fighting erupted in Juba on December 15. Rebels and government have agreed to peace talks, which are set to begin in Ethiopia this week.
As a nearly three-week-old civil war affects South Sudan, government and rebel officials are expected to begin formal talks on a possible ceasefire.
South Sudan’s government and rebels are preparing for peace talks in Ethiopia to thrash out a ceasefire to end weeks of fighting.
South Sudan’s government and rebels have agreed a ceasefire but there has been no end to ethnic fighting.
South Sudan’s government and rebels have sent delegates to peace talks in Ethiopia but fighting continues as both sides battle for control.
As South Sudan rebels battled government troops for control of the flashpoint town of Bor, the AU says it will impose sanctions over violence.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni says East African nations have agreed to unite if South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar rejects a ceasefire offer.
China will send its special envoy for Africa to South Sudan to help push talks and protect its oil interests.
The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of troops to almost double the number of peacekeepers in South Sudan.
The United Nations says a mass grave had been discovered in rebel-held Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State.
Brutal violence has spread to at least half of South Sudan’s 10 states, pushing civilians to seek protection at UN bases already under pressure.
US aircraft have come under fire while trying to evacuate Americans from the conflict in South Sudan.
African mediators said they held productive talks with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, to prevent an ethnic civil war.
SA says "democracy and human rights are essential to the governance of all African countries", slating an alleged coup attempt in South Sudan.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has told reporters that the government’s in full control of a security situation in Juba following an attempted coup.
Africa’s newest state struggles to find balance while securing its identity.
Ballots have been counted in an unofficial referendum in the flashpoint Abyei region to decide if it lies in Sudan or South Sudan.
Residents of the Abyei region, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, have voted in an unofficial referendum to decide which country they belong to.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who faces international war crimes charges, could shake things up if he shows up at UN general assembly.
South Sudan is facing corruption, a lack of public services and repression of government opponents and the media.
Heavily armed South Sudanese troops and police guarded key government institutions in the capital of Juba after the president suspended his Cabinet.
South Sudan is guilty of human rights abuses and awash with corruption, warn campaigners on the second anniversary of the country’s independence.
Sudan has put on hold nine security and economic pacts with South Sudan but remains committed to good relations if the South ends support for rebels.