Kintu “stated that he hails from the Ema tribe of the Northern Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo and added that he was brought to South Sudan against his will.” In its latest ...

Kiir belongs to the Dinka, South Sudan’s largest ethnic group, while Machar is a Nuer, the second largest tribe. Their rivalry dates back to the pre-independence civil war, which saw Machar acce ...

South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, the second-largest in the country. Clashes this month in the town of Nasir ...

Machar has served as South Sudan’s No. 2 official on and off since ... in fulfilment of a century-old prophecy by a seer from his tribe who predicted that a man with a gap between his front ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar under house arrest has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday.

The Trump administration is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over the African nation’s failure to accept repatriated citizens. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the ...