South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

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 ...

Germany has closed its embassy in Juba, South Sudan, amid escalating tensions that threaten the country with another civil ...

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.

The latest development compounds a confrontation between the two men that started after the White Army militia forced government troops to withdraw from the flashpoint town of Nasir near ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...