African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after ...

Both Kiir and Machar are historical leaders of the rebel movement — the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, or SPLM — that ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” ...

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

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

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

The 2013-2018 war was marked by ethnic divisions, with Kiir’s Dinka-led forces clashing against Machar’s Nuer-aligned troops.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said Thursday a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — 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.

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