In its latest brief on violence against civilians, UNMISS documented 1,019 violent incidents affecting 3,657 civilians last year.

The finding comes in its latest brief on violence against civilians, which also reveals a similar rise in incidents of ...

Dangerous Crisis in South SudanSouth Sudan faces a dangerous political crisis as tensions between President Salva Kiir and former First Vice President Riek Machar escalate, threatening the fragile ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world's ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

Last month, Uganda deployed troops to South Sudan to support the government, but it was criticised by South Sudan’s main opposition party SPLM-IO, whose leader Riek Machar is under house arrest ...

“South Sudanese security forces placed first vice president and opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar under house arrest in Juba on Wednesday night amid escalating political tensions, raising fears ...

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 ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — 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.

Juba (AFP) – The South Sudan government said on Friday that First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba ...

Kiir "directed the placement of Dr Riek Machar under house arrest," information minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth said in a statement, in the first official comments since ...