A group of former government officials, political analysts and lawyers calls for a collegial presidency that would better represent all South Sudanese
South Sudan Foreign Affairs Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin says he understood the United States would work with IGAD, the regional African body brokering peace talks, to impose sanctions.
IGAD officials say talks to restore peace in South Sudan are resuming, but UN and warring sides in the four-and-a-half month-old conflict say there have been clashes in four of the country's 10 states
South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei says the executive order will further obstruct South Sudan's peace process, but many residents of Juba welcome the U.S. action.
Humanitarian aid agency Medair has launched a pre-emptive vaccination campaign against the water-borne illness, trying to beat the onset of the rainy season.
The members of South Sudan's ruling SPLM party who were held for a month after being accused of being part of a coup plot that triggered six weeks of deadly violence in South Sudan, will be a third-party negotiating team at peace talks in Addis Ababa.
The fighting near Malakal is just the latest reported breach of a cessation of hostilities agreement signed three weeks ago.
Continuing insecurity, severely damaged infrastructure and looting that cleaned out food stores leave aid agencies scrambling to feed nearly four million people in need of aid in South Sudan.
Aid workers in Malakal say they expect number of people displaced by conflict to keep rising, increasing risk of disease
U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos warns that fears among the displaced that the fighting is not yet over could cause an already dire humanitarian situation in South Sudan to get worse.
In the largest of South Sudan's 10 states, only the town of Lankien still has a functioning secondary hospital, MSF Executive Director Arjan Hehenkamp says.
Doctors Without Borders says it has treated scores of people for gunshot wounds and the United Nations says 12,000 people are sheltering at its base in Malakal, capital of oil-rich Upper Nile state.
But the backers of ex-Vice President Riek Machar insist that 11 political leaders who were detained when the unrest began be released before talks begin.
An army spokesman says the SPLA is fighting to retake the capitals of two oil-producing states, a day after recapturing Bor in Jonglei state.
Many children have been separated from their families since fighting broke out on Dec. 16 in Juba, and women are vulnerable in overcrowded camps set up for displaced.
The head of the SPLM-DC said he worries that development would suffer if South Sudan joins the regional group.
Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-wha Kang says ending violence would help South Sudanese to rebuild their lives.
Three recently diagnosed cases in two separate states were, in fact, misdiagnoses that officials blamed on a lab error.
A group in the Abyei area says it will hold its own referendum to decide if the region should belong to South Sudan or Sudan.
Already a key investor in South Sudan's oil industry, China pledges a grant of $43 million to develop mining in the world's newest nation.
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