List of South Sudan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.S. Helped Birth South Sudan. Now Americans Are Being Beaten and Targeted by Its Troops.
A brutal assault on American and other foreign aid workers in Juba marks a new low for a supposed U.S. ally and the state of U.N. peacekeeping.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan Rejects U.S. Push for More Peacekeepers Despite Bloodshed
Washington helped create the world's youngest country, but the standoff over the embattled and ineffectual U.N. force shows the United States is rapidly losing influence there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Last Call to Cash In on a Vicious Civil War
Two-and-a-half years into South Sudan’s fighting, the U.N. might finally make it illegal to sell tanks and attack helicopters to the combatants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘They Will Find Us and Kill Us’
From murder to mass rape, a special report from the front lines of South Sudan’s civil war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Renewed Violence in South Sudan Threatens Fragile Peace Agreement
Former rebels accuse the government of attacking their camps with helicopter gunships as the world’s newest nation slides back toward civil war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Independence Day Nobody’s Celebrating
South Sudan’s peace deal is in tatters, its economy is in free-fall, and violence rages across the world’s youngest country.
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Refugee Runners Ready for Rio The Olympic Team With No Flag
The first Refugee Olympic Team will arrive in Rio dreaming of gold — and the countries they were forced to leave behind.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The New York Times South Sudan Op-Ed That Wasn’t
The newspaper of record published an essay ostensibly co-written by South Sudan’s warring leaders. The problem is that one of them denies having any part in it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Details on Mullah Mansour Strike; Talking Trump in South Sudan
U.S. commandos worried about ISIS in Asia; frozen out of the Arctic; and lots more
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Talking Trump and War Crimes With South Sudan’s Rebel Leader
In an exclusive interview at his armed camp, Riek Machar accuses his rival of war crimes and blames the U.S. for prolonging the carnage.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 50,000 People Are Dead. So Why Won’t Obama Push for an Arms Embargo in South Sudan?
Now that South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is back in Juba, American lawmakers believe only an arms embargo can guarantee peace.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan: Rebel Leader Did Not Return Because He Tried to Bring Laser Missiles With Him
South Sudan's rebel leader was supposed to show up in Juba on April 18. He still isn't there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Just Say No to Another Failed State in Africa
It is never a good idea to make broad generalizations about Africa.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘They Are Proud of What They Are Doing’
South Sudan's warring leaders have unleashed a terrifying wave of sexual violence that nobody has been able to stop.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After Madaya, Will the World Watch South Sudan Starve Too?
Humanitarians are warning that the starvation crisis in South Sudan has reached its worst levels yet.
