Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

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 on charges of trying to stir up ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that a peace agreement in South Sudan was in a shambles, ...

Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a growing rift between ...

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

South Sudan's independence in 2011 was met with hopes for freedom and democracy. However, political rivalry between President ...

the movement's now-deceased political figurehead. South Sudan soldiers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Credit: AP/Brian Inganga Fighting among southerners ...

Amid rising tensions in Africa’s youngest country and reports that the country’s first vice president was arrested, Bishop ...

Machar’s political group said Thursday that a 2018 ... Machar has served as South Sudan’s No. 2 official on and off since 2011. But there have been no elections since then, keeping him in ...

Western Equatoria, Western Bahr el Ghazal, and Upper Nile. All three states have experienced multiple government offensives ...