UN chief: World leaders must speak with one voice to prevent a new civil war in South Sudan
The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” ...
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 ...
South Sudan’s Vice President Has Been Placed Under House Arrest, Party Says
The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...
South Sudan opposition says peace deal has collapsed after arrest of its leader
South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...
Who is Riek Machar, South Sudan's embattled vice president?
The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...
Detention of South Sudan's VP Machar cancels peace deal, his party says
The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...
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Is Sudan’s war merging with South Sudanese conflicts?
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 ...
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The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
South Sudan has never held a national election. Its current government is the result of a power-sharing agreement struck in 2018 between Kiir and Machar. The deal ended a five-year-civil war ...
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South Sudan: What we know about the complex crisis
The arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar last week was seen by some observers as the spark that could reignite the civil war that the rivals fought between 2013 and 2018 that killed some 400,000 ...