Regional leaders and bodies have been calling for restraint and de-escalation of the situation in the country.

Standing inside the newly reclaimed presidential palace, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had on Wednesday declared the ...

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has sounded the alarm over the country’s rapidly escalating ...

South Sudan's peace agreement lies in tatters after Riek Machar, South Sudan's vice president, was arrested and forcibly detained in Juba yesterday, noting that the reasons for this were unclear.

Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a growing rift between ...

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar has been gradually unravelling, risking a return of the civil war that killed ...

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

South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar has been placed under house arrest, his SPLM-IO party said on Thursday. In response, ...

The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

Britain on Thursday advised its citizens in South Sudan to leave the country following rising tensions that have brought the ...

The arrest of Vice President Riek Machar could trigger a new wave of fighting in Africa's youngest nation. Analysts are ...