The United States has ordered all its non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, amid rising tensions in the country.

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The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

Experts have warned that escalating conflict in South Sudan threatens to unravel the fragile peace agreement, urging ...

As fears grow of a renewed full-blown civil war, the United States on Sunday ordered all its non-emergency staff to leave the ...