(Reuters) - The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

The government of South Sudan will probe the First Vice President, Riek Machar, who is under arrest for trying to stir up ...

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

Misinformation and online hate speech is fuelling panic and division in South Sudan at a time of acute political tensions that observers fear could drive the country back to war.

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling "over the abyss" ...

When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in ... Tensions between Kiir's Dinka people, the country's largest ethnic group, and Machar's Nuer community have lingered, with both men accused ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a ...

But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest ... war that killed an estimated 400,000 people. Machar has served as South Sudan’s No. 2 official on and off since ...

A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 ...