Pagan Amum is petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn an order that restricted him from movement outside of the capital and speaking to the press.

Conflict has raged since 2003 but fighting picked up since January.

An official in South Sudan's oil ministry said that Sudan has blocked the export of South Sudanese oil.

A battle in Jonglei state killed 20 rebel fighters and four government troops, while a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people.

South Sudan accuses Sudan of supporting the rebellion, a strategy meant to block Juba's plans to build an oil pipeline into Ethiopia.

Gunfire erupted in a disputed oil-rich border region.

The realities of the country's moribund business environment since 2011 mean shisha smoking is creeping back into daily life.

A watchdog group accused the Sudanese military of offering aid to the Lord's Resistance Army.

The mass exodus follows fresh tribal conflicts in the restive Darfur region.

Amnesty International has urged Juba to implement a moratorium as over 200 prisoners are on death row.