South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

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

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

First Vice President Riek Machar reportedly arrested after armed convoy led by government officials entered his residence in ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The main opposition group in South Sudan demanded Monday an international probe into alleged rights ...

South Sudan's military has regained control of Nasir, a critical town in Upper Nile state, amid political turbulence and ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to use its ...

A group of senior SPLM-IO party members in Juba on Wednesday endorsed Stephen Par Kuol, the country’s peacebuilding minister, ...

Clashes around Nasir in the northeastern Upper Nile State have helped unravel a power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, Vice-President Riek Machar. The violence ...

No explanation was given for the sacking of Foreign Minister Ramadan Mohamed, which was announced on the state radio station late on Wednesday. The move follows a row with Washington over Juba's ...

Machar rejoined the SPLA in 2002, and after a 2005 peace deal that ended civil war and established southern autonomy, he became vice-president of the South, retaining the position after South ...

Riek Machar, who is under house arrest. Machar, the country's vice president whose political rivalry with President Salva Kiir has repeatedly threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war ...