Five Indian peacekeepers were killed on Tuesday in an ambush in South Sudan, the Indian foreign ministry said, a day after the head of the UN mission there warned about spiralling violence.

The UN food agency on Wednesday staged a rare air drop of wheat to thousands of desperate refugees in South Sudan stranded by heavy rains, officials said.

Some 32 tons of wheat were flown from a base

Sudanese warplanes bombed South Sudan's oil-rich border regions overnight, wounding several, as violence persisted despite international calls for restraint, officials said Tuesday.

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South Sudan on Monday accused its former foes in the Khartoum government of arming gunmen who killed over 40 people in a cattle raid, as the UN warned tensions between the two sides risks regional pea

Expressing deep distress over the inter-ethnic clashes in South Sudan, the US on Wednesday called upon its government to address issue of lack of security in the country and asked the UN to provide ad

Gunmen killed at least 51 people in the latest ethnic clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, the region's governor said on Tuesday.

"The whole night (Monday) they burned the town in which 5

US President Barack Obama announced early on Saturday that the United States formally recognised the newly created Republic of South Sudan and vowed to support it.

The world’s newest capital is a war-damaged city of tin-shack housing and bumpy roads, strung out along the steamy banks of the White Nile river.

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon proposed a new UN mission for South Sudan after it becomes independent on July 9, requesting 7,000 troops to protect civilians and a mandate to help the new government prevent conflict and consolidate peace.

Clashes between south Sudan's Army and rebel militiamen killed at least 55 people, a government official said on Sunday in the soon to be independent state gripped by a bloody wave of unrest.