IGAD faults both the goverment of South Sudan and rebels loyal to Riek Machar for delaying implementation of the peace deal that was signed in August.
Legal experts and opposition politicians say President Salva Kiir flouted the law when he decreed that the young nation will, as of November 1, 2015, comprise of 28 states instead of the current 10.
Aid deliveries to Koch County in Unity state were interrupted four months ago after a sharp uptick in fighting.
Agreement aims to end nearly 20 months of fighting between government forces, rebels led by his former deputy
The editor-in-chief of The Citizen media group says the company's revenues have plummeted since it was shut down on Aug. 5, and it can no longer afford to keep on 75 staff members.
Journalists down tools for 24 hours and join the international community in calling on President Salva Kiir to explain a threat he made this week against the media, and find whoever killed reporter Peter Moi.
Moi Peter Julius, a political reporter for The Corporate newspaper, was shot several times, found in a residential area of Juba late Wednesday
Cabinet Affairs Minister Martin Elia Lomoro says regional leaders convinced President Salva Kiir to travel to Addis Ababa for the final days of talks to end 20 months of conflict.
Arabic-language Al Rai newspaper is the second newspaper in the past few days, and the third media group to be ordered by South Sudan government officials to cease operations.
Dutch media NGO Free Voice and popular English-language newspaper The Citizen are ordered, within hours of each other, to cease operations.
As the expanded mediation team, IGAD Plus, debates a compromise peace deal for South Sudan, a spokesman for the government of President Salva Kiir warns that his side will not sign the agreement if any new conditions are added to it.
A Ugandan and a Sudanese are among the victims of the attack, which happened just outside Juba on the road to Kajo-Keji.
The National Liberation Council, chaired by President Salva Kiir, voted to reinstate Pagan Amum as secretary general of the ruling SPLM.
Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny says only President Salva Kiir can reverse the expulsion order.
A witness to the shooting says a South Sudan army soldier opened fire after being denied entry to the U.N. camp for displaced persons in Malakal.
South Sudan's petroleum minister dismisses reports that 400 Chinese oil workers were pulled out of the strategic oil-processing center at Palouch, insisting operations there are proceeding normally.
A rebel spokesman hails capture by opposition forces of oil facilities in Palouch, in Upper Nile, as a strategic victory
Media sources and a spokesman for the army general who defected say their forces have seized control of the town of Malakal in Upper Nile, but a spokesman for the army says the fighting is ongoing.
Officials say the attack is the third this year, and blame it on neighboring Sudan.
Their hopes for peace dashed time and again, families in Ganyiel, in Unity state, try to survive on World Food Program rations and water lilies they gather from the river
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