Eight years ago this month, hopes ran high as South Sudan declared independence after decades of rule from Khartoum. Former rebels — long the de facto leaders in the territory — joined the new ...

South Sudan has endured insecurity since its independence in 2011. Now, the spillover effects of the war in Sudan, political instability and the climate crisis land South Sudan in fifth place on the ...

Sudan also hosted 1.13 million refugees before the conflict — one of the largest refugee populations in Africa. Of those, 800,000 are South Sudanese, and 136,000 are from Eritrea.

South Sudan has faced a decade of civil war and years of poverty. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports from Juba, South Sudan, with the latest on the pope's mission.

South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, was born in hardship and plenty of hope, but little seems to have changed since the day in 2011 that its people voted to secede from Sudan.

Much of the fighting has taken place in South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile region, a vast floodplain that in recent years has been ravaged by extreme weather, disease, and severe food insecurity.

David Muir and his team traveled to South Sudan to report on another front line of the climate crisis, with more than 1 million people now facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods ...

Ms. Burns is a former adviser to the U.S. special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, and a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Khartoum has been wracked with ...

South Sudan will resume pumping crude oil for export through a port in neighbouring Sudan within a few days, a South Sudanese government official told Reuters on Thursday, following repairs to a ...

South Sudan should investigate the fate and whereabouts of scores of victims of enforced disappearances and those still missing from years of civil war, Human Rights Watch and Remembering the Ones ...

South Sudan’s central bank ordered unauthorized currency traders to gather in groups at designated streets of the capital next week as part of a plan to regulate the nation’s parallel foreign ...