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South Sudan's army has retaken an eastern town captured by rebels two weeks ago, a military spokesperson says.
South Sudan’s military spokesperson says 24 people have been killed and dozens wounded during a battle between government troops and rebels who had overrun a town.
At least 29 people have been killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another group in a village in Upper Nile state.
The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.
South Sudanese soldiers have looted UN stores and charities in troubled Jonglei state where the government has been battling rebels for a year, humanitarian sources claim.
South Sudanese rebels have seized a military base and town after clashing with the army in the east, in an escalation of violence.
South Sudan's police have detained a newspaper editor without charge and refused him access to a lawyer for three days, he told a Reuters reporter who visited him in a crowded police cell.
An estimated 3 000 South Sudanese have surrendered and accepted an amnesty, an official says, ending a long-standing insurgency in the oil-producing north of the country.
Verification of a Sudan and South Sudan pull-out from a border buffer zone has to await the arrival of more than 1 000 United Nations peacekeepers.
A theft of 750 cattle has sparked a manhunt by security forces that evolved into an attack by those forces on a medical facility and 20 deaths.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has clipped the powers of his deputy Riek Machar, officials say, a move that could raise ethnic tensions within the fragile and war-ravaged nation.
The first crude from South Sudan has reached Sudan, bringing both impoverished nations closer to billions of dollars in revenue after a dispute over fees.
Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir has flown out of Khartoum for an official visit to South Sudan, a report says, in a sign of easing tensions after border clashes last year.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir can expect a "warm welcome" when he arrives in South Sudan for talks with his counterpart Salva Kiir.
Five Indian peacekeepers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the Indian foreign ministry says, a day after the head of the UN mission there warned about spiralling violence.
