Salva Kiir Mayardit

By Hereward Holland JUBA, May 17 (Reuters) - Sudan's foreign minister said on Friday neighbour South Sudan had promised him it would not let rebels operate across their shared border, defusing a row that had threatened a key oil deal. The countries,...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks...

Attendees at a high-level conference in South Sudan have issued a statement, asserting the new nation's independence from Sudan "remains incomplete" until Abyei is transferred back to the South from which it was moved in 1905 under colonial rule....

A national association for youth in South Sudan has accused the ruling party's secretary general, Pagan Amum of allegedly failing the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the country. In an interview with the Juba-based UN sponsored Miraya radio...

South Sudanese from Unity state residing in East Africa have welcomed the decision Lt Gen Bapiny Monytuel Wijang's South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) rebel group to accept an amnesty offered by president Salva Kiir. Union's representing students from...

Civilians in Yirol West county of Lakes state had reported that local authorities have destroyed beers inside the market without compensating shops owners. The public beer destruction was done in Yirol West County freedom square as instruction from...

Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) disclosed that it had furnished senior officials in South Sudan including President Salva Kiir with detailed information on their government's support to anti-Khartoum rebels prior to their recent attack in...

The South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy (SSHURSA) has called for South Sudan's deputy minister of interior to step down over the detention of two Juba Monitor newspaper journalists who were recently detained by police. Managing editor...

The four states of the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region have called for their intellectuals and senior political leaders to report themselves to Wau, the former regional capital and current state capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, to discuss challenges...

The leadership of a youth group from the oil-contested border region of Abyei have called for the immediate termination of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA), claiming the mission has failed to live up to its obligations...

A high-ranking official from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) was shot and injured after unknown gunmen ambushed the vehicle in which he traveled on Friday. A senior security officer who requested anonymity said Maj-Gen Machol Deng Ring...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Thursday openly accused the government of neigbouring Sudan of killing the paramount chief of the disputed border region of Abyei, Kuol Deng Kuol. Kuol, the chief of the nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms, was...