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A Major Step Toward Ending South Sudan’s Civil War
After months of delays and deadlock, bitter rivals Salva Kiir and Riek Machar finally clinched an agreement to form a unity government in South Sudan. Regional leaders must now maintain pressure on...
A short window to resuscitate South Sudan’s ailing peace deal
A negotiated 100-day extension for naming a unity government has averted a crisis imperilling a ceasefire between South Sudan’s main belligerents. Regional leaders should use the time to pressure...
Improving Prospects for Peace in South Sudan at the African Union Summit
Talks between President Salva Kiir and former First Vice President Riek Machar in the Sudanese capital Khartoum offer the only, albeit slim, hope of a breakthrough in South Sudan’s brutal civil war...
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Keeping the Hotline Open Between Sudan and South Sudan
A UN mission has largely succeeded in keeping the peace in Abyei, an oil-rich area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan. But there has been less progress made on the mission's work in aiding...
South Sudan’s Risky Political Impasse
International actors are struggling to respond to the evolving situation in South Sudan, meanwhile regional actors are busy creating facts on the ground. One year ago, the main warring parties in...
De-escalating South Sudan's New Flare-up
Violent clashes in the capital of South Sudan have soured the country’s fifth anniversary of independence. Hundreds of soldiers and civilians were killed in the four days after 7 July, including two...
Preventing Renewed War in South Sudan
Juba/Addis Ababa/Brussels | 1 Jul 2016 The honeymoon period is now over for the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, which formally ended the civil war in August 2015. Its...
South Sudan’s Peace Needs More than Tents and Generators
By Casie Copeland In the heat of the dry season, Juba waits, knowing big things are on the horizon. After two years in the bush, a handful of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition...
South Sudan: On the Brink of Renewed War
Juba/Addis Ababa/Brussels - A major breach of the agreement signed in Addis Ababa and Juba in August to end South Sudan’s now two-year old civil war is increasingly likely. While low-level conflict...
Restart of South Sudan Talks Critical to Avert End-March War Threat
Addis/Brussels | 12 Mar 2015 Another round of South Sudan peace talks mediated by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (The members of IGAD are Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea,...
Conflict Alert: Looming Military Offensives in South Sudan
Warring parties in South Sudan’s civil war are preparing for major offensives as seasonal rains ease. Hardliners in both the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO)...
Civil Society and the South Sudan Crisis
By Jérôme Tubiana The inclusion of civil society in efforts to defuse the South Sudan crisis has so far been fraught. The parties to the conflict (see our recent report South Sudan: A Civil War by...
Conflict Alert: Halting South Sudan's Spreading Civil War
Juba, Brussels The war between the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/SPLA) government and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) that began in Juba in...
Fighting not Talking: South Sudan’s Warring Parties Jockey for Position
Crisis Group’s Africa Program staff assembled this Q and A to provide an update on events in South Sudan. For background and further discussion see our most recent report, South Sudan: A Civil War by...
Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General
Brussels | 24 Dec 2013 Dear Secretary-General, I am writing concerning the situation in South Sudan. Like you, we have been following the country’s descent into civil conflict with growing dismay and...
South Sudan Needs Respected Outside Mediation
Brussels/Nairobi The scenario many feared but dared not contemplate looks frighteningly possible: South Sudan, the world’s newest state, is now arguably on the cusp of a civil war. Since the evening...