South Sudan

General to hold talks with President Salva Kiir on second trip abroad since war in homeland began

Humanitarian official expresses deep concern over accounts of ethnically motivated violence in West Darfur, describing them as 'extremely alarming'

UN estimates five million additional people will need emergency assistance inside the country

This is a 'make or break' year for the world’s newest nation, UN's special envoy says

Estimated 1.4 million children under the age of five expected to suffer from acute malnutrition

Vice President Riek Machar's wife is one of the two officials fired by Salva Kiir

Ending two of Africa's worst conflicts was the main theme of pontiff's visits to South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo

Twenty-seven people killed in fighting in the world's youngest Christian-majority country

Lebanon and five other states had their voting rights suspended for not making the minimum contribution to membership

UN warns of a grim 2023 for the South Sudanese people

Country has struggled with violence between armed groups in years since civil war ended in 2018

The unification of forces was a key condition of the 2018 peace deal

Vote was scheduled for December

Vatican says July trip will be rescheduled

Security Council resolution follows reports of continued ceasefire infringements and increasing violence

World's newest nation slid into civil war in 2013 amid ethnic divisions shortly after independence

The Holy See has already announced that the pontiff will proceed with the latest African pilgrimage of his nine-year-old papacy

Graduation of the joint forces should be completed within two months

Clashes in recent days have raised the threat of another outbreak of serious conflict

Pontiff has taken an interest in the conflicts that have plagued the African countries