Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for international support to avert another civil war in South Sudan. With escalations following First Vice President Riek Machar's arrest, Guterres ...

Activity in Juba's main market area appeared normal on Friday -- but tight faces and anxious looks revealed the fear under ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated, the government said on Friday - the ...

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar has been gradually unravelling, risking a return of the civil war that killed ...

South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...

South Sudan’s president arrested his first VP, a move that could collapse the 2018 peace agreement that ended the country’s ...

South Sudan’s political crisis is worsening, threatening the 2018 peace deal between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar. Authorities have arrested key Machar allies amid renewed ...

Mounting fears of a return to civil war grip South Sudan as political tensions between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar escalate. Violent clashes, high-level arrests, and an ...

The people arrested since March 4, are aligned with First Vice President Riek Machar, head of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO). The timing of these detentions coincides ...

“We are not there for peacekeeping." In deploying Ugandan soldiers to Juba, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni moved as a guarantor of the peace process that keeps Kiir and Machar together in a ...