South Sudan faces a renewed slide into full-scale conflict unless urgent international action is taken, the UN-appointed independent investigative body examining human rights there warned on Wednesday.

Sudan medics say scores killed in recent days as new evidence points to mass atrocities by paramilitary forces.

The city’s fall gives RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo—known as Hemedti—control of Sudan’s entire western frontier and all five Darfur states. Those borders with Libya, Chad and South Sudan form arteries of a shadow economy moving gold, weapons and fuel from the Sahel to the Red Sea—the same routes Iran once used to arm Hamas and Hezbollah.

The peace monitoring commission in South Sudan has raised alarms about a major decline in security across the country.

Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, in what the United Nations chief called a “terrible escalation” in the conflict.

UN Commission on the Human Rights in South Sudan members on Wednesday voiced concern over the growing risk of nation-wide conflict returning to South Sudan. The commission pointed to increasing

A prominent South Sudanese lawyer accused security forces on Tuesday of suppressing free speech through intimidation and arbitrary arrests, saying fear of the agencies has silenced many citizens.

An international ceasefire monitor says parties to South Sudan’s faltering peace agreement have recruited new fighters for a conflict that observers have warned could widen again into civil war.

Scores of people have been killed in the latest spate of violence unleashed by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Videos

Ellon has taken his South Sudanese blind soccer team a step closer to their dream of playing at the 2028 Paralympics in California. The 22-year-old striker is representing South Sudan’s “Bright Stars,

Uhuru currently serves as the African Union–Kenya Peace Envoy and Facilitator of the East African Community–led Nairobi Peace Process. His engagement with one of South Sudan’s top leaders could therefore be viewed as part of ongoing regional efforts to stabilise the world’s youngest nation.