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

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dismissed Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Ramadan ...

Brigadier General Ibrahim Samir David, SSOA’s Greater Equatoria commander and a member of the Joint Defense Board media unit, ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir may have found a perfect opportunity to strand his old rival Riek Machar. The emerging wrangles in Machar’s party, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition ...

JUBA, South Sudan. The South Sudan main opposition Party, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition​​​​​​​, on ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit announces the death of army general David Majur Dak, in Juba, South Sudan, Friday, March 7, 2025. Credit: AP/Florence Miettaux The recent fighting in ...

Who is Salva Kiir? Born in 1951, the 73-year-old devout Roman Catholic was the son of a cattle herder and the eighth of nine children. At 17, he joined the Anyanya, one of the rebel groups that ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In ...

gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of struggle led by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), now under President Salva Kiir. Just two years into independence, a civil war ...