UN Security Council approves plans to almost double the number of peacekeepers in South Sudan as reports of mass graves fuel fears of a worsening of ethnic blood shed.
A plane carrying British nationals leaves South Sudan after the Foreign Office warns people to leave the country as violence spreads.
The Foreign Office is evacuating British nationals from South Sudan amid fighting that has killed up to 500 people.
Lindsey Hilsum
“I think we are on the verge of civil war,” said my friend Jok Madut Jok in South Sudan. Yesterday Jok saw 200 bodies in the barracks where the fighting started and 40 in the morgue of the hospital.
As many as 500 people are said to have been killed in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, after three days of fighting between rival factions within the presidential guard.
The president of South Sudan declares a curfew and blames troops loyal to his sacked deputy for the violence overnight in the capital of Juba.
A Californian filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic film which sparked a wave of violent protests across the world is taken in for questioning by officers.
Many had walked for two or three months, hiding in the bush, eating nothing but leaves and bark, having fled their homes in the Ingessena Mountains, where they had come under attack from Sudan forces.
As the world’s newest country approaches its first anniversary as a nation, South Sudan struggles to cope with a refugee crisis that experienced aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen.
The leader of tens of thousands of refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan tells Channel 4 News’ Jonathan Miller of the persecution causing his Ingessena people to flee their homeland.
Channel 4 News Head of Foreign News Ben de Pear blogs on the “perfect storm” of war, geography and the rainy season in crisis-hit South Sudan.
The birth of a new nation has not dispelled the old ways of violence in South Sudan, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Police in Washington arrest actor George Clooney during a protest outside the Sudanese embassy against the country’s blockade of aid to southern regions.
Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.
Channel 4 News’ International Editor Lindsey Hilsum speaks to the “jubilating” crowds celebrating South Sudan’s independence.