South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Thursday declared a state of emergency in areas hit by deadly inter-communal clashes over cattle raids that have killed hundreds of people in recent months, state ...

Aid groups and opposition politicians in South Sudan say that dozens of civilians have been killed or badly injured in ...

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Aid groups and opposition politicians in South Sudan say that dozens of civilians have been killed or badly injured in airstrikes in recent weeks as the country’s army clashes with militia groups acro ...

Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, have sparked concerns that the world's youngest nation is heading for ...

Riek Machar (L) and Salva Kiir (R) - seen here together in 2020 - had been allies within the SPLM before falling out Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In ...

The South Sudan government said yesterday that first vice-president Riek Machar was “under house arrest”, two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate ...

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

"The pretence of Riek Machar's control over the White Army is a useful distraction for Juba's actual political crisis— collapsing oil revenues and Salva Kiir's contentious plan to install Bol ...

South Sudan's ex-vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar gestures as he arrives for a meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir at the presidential office in Juba on October 19, 2019 ...