The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war.

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday.

South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar, a long-time rival of the country's President Salva Kiir, has been placed under house arrest, his party says. An armed convoy led by top security officials,