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

The deal ended a five-year-civil war, which killed an estimated 400,000 people. South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group ...

A government built along ethnic designs undermines the state by relying on blood brothers who work for the tribe and not the country ...

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

But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest ... an estimated 400,000 people. What does Machar want? Machar has served as South Sudan’s No. 2 official on and ...

In an apparent attempt to boost his stature as a leader of the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe after the Dinka, Machar has kept in his possession a ceremonial stick once carried by a ...

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

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