A diplomatic row has erupted between South Sudan and Kenya's special envoy Raila Odinga after President Salva Kiir's government rejected the former prime minister's claims about the political crisis ...

Ugandan troops are deployed in both South Sudan and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to protect Kampala’s interests. Desperate for cash, President Kiir has grown closer to the United ...

Days after former Prime Minister Raila Odinga briefed the country of his high-stakes meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir in an attempt to quell the tension in the country, the South ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar ... as government troops loyal to President Salva Kiir battle soldiers and ...

Raila Odinga's recent diplomatic setback in South Sudan, where he alleged being denied access to Vice President Riek Machar and required to seek Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's consent first, has ...

President Museveni on Thursday ... Among those at the airport to receive Mr Museveni were South Sudan’s Minister of Presidential Affairs, Chol Mawut Ajongo; the Minister of Foreign Affairs ...

The unanimous verdict came more than three months after the opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to impeach him.

The move comes a few days after Kenya’s President William Ruto appointed Odinga Special Envoy to South Sudan. Odinga on Mar 27 expressed optimism about a resolution of the political conflict in the ...

Mr Odinga was appointed Special Envoy to South Sudan by President William Ruto, with officials in Nairobi first indicating that Kenya was moving in as chair of the East African Community. Later, Mr ...

Raila, who visited Juba as part of his regional peace mediation efforts, had told the media that he was barred from meeting First Vice President Riek Machar and was instead advised to discuss the ...