The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2020, between forces of the government and opposition forces. The Civil War caused rampant human rights abuses, including forced displacement, ethnic massacres, and killings of journalists by various parties.

This category refers to anti-government militant organisations in the Republic of South Sudan.

Jan 9, 2025 · Despite repeated attempts at peace agreements and cease-fires in 2015, 2017, and 2018, political violence and instability have persisted between government forces and opposition factions in South...

The SPLM-N was founded by units of the predominantly South Sudanese Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army stationed in areas that remained in Sudan following the South Sudanese vote for independence in 2011. These forces then led a rebellion in the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile a few months later. [59]

1 day ago · In September 1963 a rebellion erupted in southeastern Sudan, led by the Anya Nya, a southern Sudanese guerrilla organization that believed that only violent resistance would make the government of ʿAbbūd seek a solution acceptable to the southerners.

Jan 17, 2025 · Shops and restaurants were shuttered on Friday in much of the capital city, Juba South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has called for calm and urged citizens not to take the law into their own hands ...

Dec 12, 2019 · Within two years of its formation in 2011, bad blood between South Sudan’s two most powerful leaders had flared into violence. On the six-year anniversary of hostilities breaking out, a revamped peace deal looks like the country’s best chance of restoring order.

Ten years ago, on July 9, 2011, South Sudan gained its long-fought independence from Sudan. Since then, the new country descended into a bloody seven-year civil war, and while a peace deal...

Jan 8, 2025 · The RSF controls about 50% of the country, including almost all of Darfur, Khartoum and other areas south of the capital, while the army has been forced to move to Port Sudan in the east.

Aug 1, 2017 · As elsewhere in South Sudan, the conflict in the Equatorias has played on pre-existing ethnic and communal tensions and is marked by serious abuses committed against civilians by government...