The spokesman said in a statement late on Monday that 60 other people were in a critical condition after...
Machar, who under the terms of the peace deal is to be reinstated as vice president, had not set foot...
A recent scientific study calculated that more than 382,000 people have died as a result of the civil...
The plane crashed by a river and an eye witness had earlier said bodies were recovered from the...
Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui was shot while helping escort a aid convoy
The event was hailed around the world and by celebrity supporters such as George Clooney
The strongly-worded US-drafted text is aimed at piling pressure on South Sudan's warring sides as they...
Last week, the United States urged the UN Security Council to hold Myanmar’s military accountable for...
The debacles in Bosnia and Rwanda loom large over UN peace operations to this day
The United Nations has warned that the violence in South Sudan was providing fertile ground for a...
As Africa struggles to win Trump's interest, US policy is more likely to be increasingly focused on countering...
In 2016, UNHCR had $4.4bn available funds, but still ended the year with a 41% shortfall
The peacekeepers have treated patients with conditions such as malaria, typhoid, diarrhoea and persistent...
The UN's refugee agency said Tuesday the risk of mass deaths from starvation is growing in South...
UN humanitarian chief described the crisis as the largest since the World War II, and an amount of $4.4bn...
The brutal conflict, sparking UN warnings over ethnic cleansing, is driving a devastating famine that...
260,000 people starved to death in the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa
While the famine in South Sudan is man-made, millions more across the Horn of Africa are going hungry...
More than 20 million people - greater than the population of Romania or Florida - risk dying from starvation...
Bangladesh will send an infantry battalion under the United Nations peace mission to war-torn South...
Some analysts have compared the Khmer Rouge to the Islamic State group, for their ruthless pursuit of...