The United States on Thursday called on South Sudan President Salva Kiir to release his rival First Vice President Riek ...

South Sudan has five vice-presidents. Kiir's longtime rival and opposition leader Machar is currently serving as first ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ...

An aid organization says five children are among eight people who have died from cholera in South Sudan after aid cuts are ...

The detention of South Sudan’s first vice-president Riek Machar under house ... and a rise in hate speech could reignite the civil war along ethnic lines. − Reuters ...

(Reuters) -The United States on Thursday called on South Sudan President Salva Kiir to release ... and a rise in hate speech could reignite along ethnic lines the civil war. Machar's SPLM-IO ...

FILE - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings to discuss outstanding issues to the peace deal on Oct. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Sam ...

A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 peace deal as relations between its leader Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the country with armoured and air force units, and conducting airstrikes there.

Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters] Published On 27 Mar 202527 Mar 2025 South Sudan’s opposition has said that the overnight arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, longtime rival to ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up rebellion, the government said on Friday, the first confirmation of a ...

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) also first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said that Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan’s capital Juba to “secure it” as tensions between President ...