A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar has been gradually unravelling, threatening a return of the civil war that killed around 400,000 people between 2013 and 2018.

The UN warns that South Sudan has been pushed closer to conflict by the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar. He and the ...

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

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar, the long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, was arrested on Wednesday -- a move described by the UN as leaving the country on the brink of widespread ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...

South Sudan's opposition says several of its key political figures were arrested on Tuesday. Just a day earlier, an army base ...

JUBA, South Sudan — (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said its leader Riek Machar has been arrested as the U.N. called on all parties to uphold the 2018 agreement that ended the ...

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

The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...

UNITED NATIONS — (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden ...