The government of South Sudan has said that it required some $1.7 billion in aid in 2018 to be able to assist some 6 million people many of whom are starving and reeling under conflict.
South Sudan's rebel forces have reclaimed their stronghold of Pagak, less than a week after being pushed out of the town by government forces, Colonel Lam Paul Gabriel, deputy spokesperson for the opposition IO, told the Associated Press.
Heavy fighting erupted on Friday in the South Sudanese town of Pagak near the border with Ethiopia when rebels launched an offensive against government forces, the rebels said.
Exiled South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar declined to renounce violence or declare a unilateral ceasefire and instead demanded new peace talks outside the...
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has declared a three-month state of emergency in his home state, where clashes have raged for months between clan-based...
More South Sudanese people are going hungry and 45,000 are still living in famine-like conditions even though South Sudan is no longer classified as...