The UN's peacekeeping chief on Tuesday called on South Sudan to withdraw its forces from the disputed Abyei region, warning their presence could further fuel tensions in the restive, oil-rich border ...

Mr Aguer urged the South Sudan army leadership in the capital Juba to urgently redeploy its troops who are stationed along the border of Abyei and Twic County of Warrap State. In February ...

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has launched a blistering ... day after a public meeting in Juba where Abyei’s elected representatives in the capital condemned the failure of UNISFA to ...

April 20, 2024 (ABYEI) – Protesters in the oil-producing region of Abyei and in New York have called for withdrawal of armed groups and for President Salva Kiir to accept the 2013 referendum ...

Two armed groups raided Abyei on Saturday, local authorities said. The day after, peacekeepers came under fire when transporting affected civilians to hospital, the UN said. South Sudan and Sudan ...

Sudan will keep police forces in the disputed Abyei region bordering South Sudan for now, the state news agency SUNA said on Thursday, defying a call by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to withdraw.

struggling like others to make a living in South Sudan's capital, Juba. "My profession and my life is music ... (but) there is no place for music in wartime," he told Reuters by phone.

The United Nations says Sudanese paramilitary forces are encircling the only capital they haven’t captured in the western ...

There has also been fighting in the Abyei region, a contested border area in the north-south border region. Wour Mijak, a spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Abyei -- the ...

Fighting broke out a year ago in the capital Khartoum ... the vast and largely arid swath of western and south-western Sudan has been at the centre of the ongoing conflict largely because it ...

Sudan’s conflict, which is now in its second month, is raising worries among neighbours that lawlessness there will be exported in the form of illegal small arms. The problem of illegal arms was ...