An international aid group has reported that armed men have killed nearly 60 people at hospitals across South Sudan during the country’s ethnic conflict in the past six months.

The United Nations says more than 50-thousand children could lose their lives because of hunger and disease in conflict-torn South Sudan.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in South Sudan in a bid to demand the involving sides of the conflict end the four-month-old clashes in the country.

The United Nations has expressed grave concern over the recruitment of more than 9-thousand children by armed groups in war-weary South Sudan.

The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern over the condition of human rights in strife-torn South Sudan and urged both sides to respect cessation.

South Sudan has released from prison the last four men accused by the government of attempting to launch a coup in the country.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked his army chief following the fall of a major oil hub to the hands of rebels led by the former vice president, Riek Machar.

The UN says it is planning to airlift food aid to thousands of refugees affected by the violence in South Sudan.

Nyala / Bielel — More than 35 villages burned to ashes, and dozens of civilians were killed in attacks by troops of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the area of Hijer Tunjo, southeast of Nyala, South Darfur, on Thursday and Friday.

Rebels fighting against the South Sudanese government say that 700 men from government troops have defected with all their equipment and joined them.

The United Nations says nearly four million people in South Sudan are in dire need of food aid due to the conflict in the country.

Tensions are mounting again in South Sudan as rebels have accused the government forces of launching fresh attacks despite a recent ceasefire between the two sides.

The World Food Program (WFP) says looters in South Sudan have stolen more than 3,700 tons of food, an amount enough to feed 220,000 people for a month.

South Sudanese government forces are preparing for an offensive on the last key town under the control of rebels, a day after the army recaptured the country's main oil hub.

The United States is mulling targeted sanctions against South Sudan due to its rival leaders’ failure to taking steps to end an ethnic conflict that has brought the world’s youngest nation to the brink of civil war, sources say.

South Sudanese troops have recaptured Bentiu, the capital of oil-producing northern Unity state, from fighters loyal to rebel leader Riek Machar.

The United Nations says death toll from the fighting between South Sudanese government forces and rebels is significantly higher than the 1,000 given so far.

Heavy gunfire has erupted overnight in South Sudan’s capital Juba, witnesses and embassies report.

The results of an unofficial referendum show that 99.9 percent of the voters in disputed Abyei, mostly from Ngok Dinka tribe, have voted to join South Sudan.

At least 41 people have been killed and 63 others injured in a gun attack in South Sudan’s eastern state of Jonglei, a regional official says.