Born in 1952, the 72-year-old was the 27th son of the chief of Ayod and Leer and was brought up in the Presbyterian Church ... his Nuer ethnic group. He became vice-president of South Sudan ...

Born in 1952, the 72-year-old was the 27th son of the chief of Ayod and Leer and was brought up in the Presbyterian Church ... from Sudan, as he sought to strengthen his position and that of his Nuer ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

As the two SPLM factions are closely aligned with South Sudan's two largest ethnic groups - Kiir with the Dinka and Machar with the Nuer - ethnic ... in Juba and local church leaders have also ...

South Sudan’s kleptocratic leaders have been quick to associate Machar, the SPLM-IO leader, with the White Army. This is largely because the militia group primarily recruits from the Nuer ethnic ...

Upper Nile State, South Sudan — Mary ... no Shiluk and no Nuer." Salma Osman Ibrahim, a 28-year-old mother of three, also returned from Sudan at the end of last year, and now bakes and sells ...

South Sudan has reversed its decision to deny entry to a man it said was a Congolese national deported by the United States after Washington imposed a blanket visa ban on South Sudanese citizens.

April 8 (UPI) --South Sudan said the revocation of U.S. visas for all its nationals is incorrectly based on an incident that involved a citizen of a different African country. South Sudanese ...