Salva Kiir

Salva Kiir and Riek Machar hold the nation’s fate in their hands. Again

The lead-up to next year’s first-ever elections will likely see heightened political disputes, competition and defections – developments that can quickly turn deadly

African leaders’ sartorial choices have been communicating their political orientations for centuries

Later this month, the UN Security Council will vote on whether to lift the arms embargo on South Sudan. Doing so would be a terrible mistake

For a country that is guided by ubuntu, South Africa has a record of embarrassing international blunders

The international organisation has been on the receiving end of bitter criticism since South Sudan’s first case of Covid-19 was confirmed to be a UN staffer

Pretoria can make a real difference in helping to solve conflicts and other issues in Burundi, the DRC, South Sudan and Zimbabwe

They’ll roar again unless there’s justice for atrocities and the armed forces are reformed

A new ‘award’, Spoilers of Peace, is designed to name and shame those people preventing peace in South Sudan

At least 104 people had been killed in attacks on villages in the southern region, the United Nations said on Wednesday

President Salva Kiir urges rebel chief Riek Machar to return to Juba during speech to parliament

An August 2015 peace deal collapsed almost a year after it was signed and the conflict spread, drawing in more groups around the country

​South Sudan’s warring parties will hold talks in Addis Ababa on Thursday, in a bid to salvage a stalled peace deal

Factors such as the militia and ethnic loyalties may prevent the formation of a united defence force

Hopes are high that the agreement will end the war which has cost the lives of tens of thousands of people