South Sudan’s president arrests VP, opposition says, risking imminent war
President Salva Kiir ordered the arrest of Riek Machar, the opposition said, imperiling a 2018 peace deal. Several embassies ...
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South Sudan: Churches appeal for peace as war escalates
The situation in South Sudan is escalating: on Thursday, 26 March, Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest, ...
Violence in South Sudan is rising again: what’s different this time, and how to avoid civil war
The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...
Who is Salva Kiir, the former rebel leading fractured South Sudan?
When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus of worldwide congratulations and celebrations, ...
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Kenya to Send Specialised Police to South Sudan Hours After Riek Machar's Arrest
According to Machar’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLM-IO) party, a convoy consisting of 20 heavily armed ...
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Sudan’s military says it seized control of capital city from paramilitary
locals in the town of Tora reported an airstrike that killed dozens of people in a market; footage posted online showed lines of incinerated bodies. The civil war has spilled over Sudan’s ...
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Who is Salva Kiir, the former rebel leading fractured South Sudan?
Tensions between Kiir's Dinka people, the ... Born in 1951 to a family of cattle herders, Kiir joined the southern rebellion against the Sudanese government in the 1960s in what would become ...