South Sudan has temporarily abandoned registration fees for foreign and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a bid to encourage groups to help with a humanitarian crisis in the country, a senior government official said.

The United Nations says attacks against aid workers are increasing in South Sudan.

The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached one million, the United Nations says, marking a grim milestone for what has become the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis.

South Sudan’s rebels say they have retaken control of their stronghold town of Pagak near the border with Ethiopia from government forces.

South Sudan’s rebel leader and former first vice president Riek Machar has fled to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations says.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed serious concerns about the ongoing violence in South Sudan, saying the African country stands “on the brink of an abyss.”

South Sudan’s president has replaced his vice president and rival Riek Machar, in a move that could undermine last year’s peace accord and trigger a fresh wave of violence in Africa’s youngest nation.

South Sudan’s opposition has declared that its leader Riek Machar, who also serves as the war-torn country’s vice president, is being replaced by one of his opponents.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed serious concerns about renewed fighting in South Sudan despite a peace agreement earlier signed between the Juba government troops and rebels.

More than 150 soldiers and civilians were killed during tense clashes in South Sudan’s capital on Friday evening between forces loyal to the president and supporters of the first vice president.

South Sudan has formed a transitional unity government with 30 ministers sworn in, bringing an end a two-year deadly conflict in the country.

South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar has been sworn in as first vice president shortly after returning to the capital to form a unity government.

The United Nations (UN) has urged South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to the country’s capital to serve in a unity government, as part of an August 2015 peace deal with rival President Salva Kiir.

South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar says he will return to the capital Juba later this month to form a unity government with President Salva Kiir as part of their stalled peace deal.

The chief ceasefire monitor in South Sudan says people are dying of starvation in the country's Western Equatoria state ​as warring sides fail to implement an agreed peace deal to end two years of war.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has taken several steps toward implementing a stalled peace accord and sharing power with the rebel forces in the country.

South Sudan’s president has issued a Christmas decree creating 28 new states in a bid that may undermine a peace deal in the African country .

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for the deployment of an extra number of 1,100 peacekeeping forces to South Sudan as unprecedented level of violence continues to grip the African country.

Experts from the United Nations (UN) say crimes such as killings, rapes, and abductions continue in South Sudan despite a peace deal reached between the government and rebels.

At least 41 people have been killed in an incident during which a Russian-built cargo plane crash-landed shortly after takeoff in South Sudan.