In the early years of South Sudan’s independence ... Tensions erupted into civil war in December 2013, following a political struggle between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek ...
Although an uneasy peace between the two main parties in the country’s civil war (2013- 2018) remains, new challenges are deepening needs in South Sudan. Currently, 9.3 million people in South Sudan ...
But the government broke apart in 2013. The causes of the conflict are mainly rooted in the current unfair distribution of political power and economic resources, which has emerged over time and is ...
South Sudan hosts some 330,000 refugees and asylum-seekers (mainly from Sudan) and has 2 million internally displaced persons due to conflict, insecurity and the impact of climate change. In addition, ...
South Sudan itself is also gripped in a crisis at the moment – massive flooding along the course of the White Nile has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. In 2013 a bloody civil war ...
China moved into Sudan’s oil industry after Chevron Corp. left in 1992 amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in 2011 ...