NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as Upper Nile state governor, according to a ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sworn in General James Koang Chuol as the new governor of Upper Nile State, tasking ...

In a decree read on state TV late on Wednesday, Kiir sacked Upper Nile governor James Odhok Oyay who is from SPLM-IO and replaced him with James Koang Chuol, a lieutenant general who hails from Nasir.

South Sudan said on Tuesday it was verifying reports of Sudanese armed groups present in Upper Nile state, raising concerns ...

Authorities in Sudan’s White Nile state said on Monday they were taking urgent precautions to monitor a potential influx of ...

Growing tensions have threatened to undo their unity government, particularly violent clashes in the northeastern Upper Nile State.

He won an election for governor of Unity State/Western Upper Nile in December 1997 and was expelled from the governorship and the state in May 1999 by Maj. Gen. Paulino Matiep. He fled to Khartoum.