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

Sudan's government alleges that the UAE is arming its civil war opponents, which it denies. There are "horrific videos" of "armed men executing civilians in cold blood", the UN's Volker Türk says ...

The South Sudan People’s Defence Forces are fighting the White Army militia, which is primarily made up of Nuer people, the vice president’s ethnic group. From Soviet classrooms to ...

First Vice President Riek Machar -- who are respectively of Dinka and Nuer ethnicity -- is hanging in the balance after Machar's arrest on Wednesday. Mobile phone penetration in South Sudan ...

South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, the second-largest in the country. Clashes this month in the town of Nasir ...

UNITED NATIONS — (AP) — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling ... an ethnic Nuer, together in a unity government ...

or SPLM — that secured South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011. But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest, and Machar is from the Nuer, the second-largest.