South Sudan lifts aid blockade into rebel areas

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar holds talks with Kenya's leader in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi about the latest peace efforts.

South Sudan rebels fail to attend the second day of peace talks aimed at ending months of conflict, throwing the negotiations into doubt.

Geneva. A South Sudanese rebel group has freed 250 child soldiers including a girl as young as nine, the UN children’s agency said on Sunday, but warned that thousands were still being forced to fight.

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South Sudan rebel leader in Tanzania for talks with president Kikwete
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The US offers $180m (£107m) in aid for the growing food crisis in South Sudan, as UN envoys meet with warring factions to end the conflict there.

Delivering Red Cross aid to South Sudan

More than 300,000 people are without "life-saving" aid in South Sudan's oil-rich Unity state after heavy fighting forces aid agencies to withdraw, the UN says.

Both signatories to a peace deal in South Sudan are urged by the UN to allow shipments of food aid to reach a population in danger of mass hunger.