South Sudan

Renewed gunfights broke out across South Sudan’s capital Sunday between forces loyal to the president and those of the vice president, officials said Sunday, causing widespread casualties and raising fears that the country is returning to civil war.

Soldiers have brought scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan’s capital after gunfire erupted throughout Juba on Friday evening, a doctor at the hospital said Saturday, as panicked residents worried of a return to civil war.

The United Nations refugee agency says a rise in fighting in a once-peaceful part of South Sudan has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes since December.

As the world’s youngest country enters its third year of civil war, there are new hopes for a durable peace.

South Sudan’s civil war took away everything that had been precious to Mary Nyak Chot.

A cargo plane taking off from the South Sudanese capital of Juba crashed along the banks of the Nile River, killing at least 25 people

Rebels in South Sudan said Thursday they have seized U.N. river barges they suspect are transporting weapons for government troops, and are holding 16 peacekeepers and others who were aboard them

Fighting resumed in parts of South Sudan between government troops and rebel forces, two days after the president declined to sign a peace deal