Labour leader Andrew Little hopes to avoid a byelection, and to have an early general election instead, following David Shearer's resignation.

A child soldier who became an infamous commander in Joseph Kony's militia is before the International Criminal Court.

Star doing her bit to draw world’s attention to new nation’s refugees of civil war, writes Judith Woods

Hundreds of civilians, including women and children, have been massacred by rebels who seized an oil-rich town in South Sudan, the United Nations said.

A Dunedin couple have escaped from South Sudan after surviving a tumultuous fortnight of deadly violence in the world's newest country.