20120417 AFP The President of South Sudan -- whose country has been locked in fierce border clashes with Sudan -- will visit China later this month, the host country has announced..
20120317 AFP South Sudan must uphold promises to abolish its use of child soldiers, with some 2,000 minors still serving in its rebel turned regular army, the UN's top expert on children in conflict said Friday.
20120313 AFP Fierce ethnic clashes over cattle rustling killed more than 200 people in South Sudan at the weekend, and hundreds more were abducted in the troubled fledgling nation, a state governor said Monday.
20120310 AFP South Sudan accused former foe Sudan on Friday of holding 35,000 Southerners as "slaves," stalling talks to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two neighbours.
20120229 AFP South Sudan has signed a ceasefire with the largest of several rebel groups which threaten the stability of the world's newest nation, the government said on Tuesday.
20120220 AFP South Sudan slashed non-salary government spending by half, weeks after halting the oil production that forms 98 percent of its budget in a bitter row with former foes in north Sudan, officials said Sunday.
20120209 Reuters ROME (Reuters) - Conflict, population displacement and high food prices mean millions of people in South Sudan face hunger this year, two U.N. food agencies said on Wednesday.
20120202 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. mission in South Sudan is investigating reports of a massacre of nearly 80 people by armed men in uniforms in Africa's youngest nation, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
20120202 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - China will press South Sudan for help in securing the release of 29 Chinese workers held captive for five days and may appeal to the African Union and other parties to mediate in negotiations, state media reported on Thursday.
20120126 Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will withdraw its helicopters and personnel servicing the United Nations peacekeeping force in South Sudan, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, a move that will cause problems for the stretched mission.
20120125 AFP Warplanes dropped several bombs in two attacks targeting a transit centre in South Sudan with some 5,000 refugees, with one boy wounded and 14 others missing, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.
20120121 AFP South Sudan has ordered the shutdown of oil production that provides some 98 percent of its revenue, amid a deepening row with Khartoum over pipeline fees, the government said on Friday.
20120118 AP JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Members of a South Sudan tribe that was previously targeted in a massive ethnic assault killed 47 people in another revenge attack, escalating the tribal conflict in the world's newest nation, an official sa id.
20120116 AFP Almost one hundred people were killed in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state last week, with the government on Sunday reporting 13 more deaths as a cattle vendetta between two tribes grips the new nation.
20120116 AFP International oil companies gathered on Sunday to study six exploration blocks that Sudan opened for bidding ahead of talks aimed at resolving a long-running oil fee dispute with South Sudan.
20120115 AFP Sitting on the edge of the bed beside his nine-year-old daughter recovering from a gunshot wounds, Mangiro recounted how he lost the rest of his family in recent tribal clashes in South Sudan’s troubled state of Jonglei.
20120110 AP JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Members of a South Sudanese tribe targeted in massive attacks late last month have killed 22 people and burned down three villages of the opposing tribe in new attacks, a state governor said Monday.
2012018 AFP Doctors Without Borders has resumed emergency operations in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state to help thousands displaced by a recent bloody explosion of ethnic violence, a statement said Saturday.
2012018 AP JUBA, Sudan (AP) — Aid groups are mounting a "major emergency operation" in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands of people fleeing and killed an unknown number of people, the U.N. said Saturday.
20120104 AFP Thousands of South Sudanese who fled the latest wave of bloody ethnic violence in the troubled Jonglei state are in dire need of emergency aid, the United Nations warned Wednesday.
