Sources: BBC
Armed youths belonging to the Murle people attack a village in Greater Pibor Administrative Area, South Sudan, killing 12 people and injuring 10 others, with 15 children reported missing. Most of the victims were elderly residents. 2024-04-2
South Sudanese authorities arrest six journalists from the country's public broadcaster on suspicion of distributing unauthorized footage of President Salva Kiir Mayardit that went viral internationally in December. 2023-01-7
A hand grenade explodes in a night club in the city of Yambio in South Sudan, killing at least ten people and injuring dozens of others. The police commissioner in the city confirmed that the explosion is not related to the ongoing civil war in the country. 2018-10-1
Ethiopia claims that members of South Sudan's Murle people have killed 140 people and abducted 39 children. 2016-04-16
Around 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan. 2012-03-12
Monitors say the northern Sudanese army is massing in South Kordofan, amid fighting with southern-aligned groups in the state. 2011-06-19
Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of Southern Sudan, calls on the government of Sudan to withdraw its forces from the province of Abyei. 2011-05-26
Southern Sudan chooses to become independent of Sudan with over 99% voting yes in the referendum. 2011-01-30
The Constitutional Court in Sudan agrees to hear a petition by lawyers for the dissolution of the body organising the referendum on Southern Sudan's independence. 2010-12-15
Fears mount that the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, which has ties to the Sudanese government, is poised to destabilize South Sudan as it prepares for a referendum on independence. 2010-10-18