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

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

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera. The biggest development was an alliance in February between ...

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

President Salva Kiir ordered the arrest of Riek Machar, the opposition said, imperiling a 2018 peace deal. Several embassies ...

When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus of worldwide congratulations and celebrations, ...

South Sudan's peace agreement lies in tatters after Riek Machar, South Sudan's vice president, was arrested and forcibly ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...

The political party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has warned that his arrest on Wednesday invalidates the ...

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