Five senior officials from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO), led by First Vice President Dr.

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

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

In a major political shake-up, South Sudan’s opposition party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) ...

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

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...

The papers said that Machar was removed from the vice presidency and under arrest. Machar purportedly rejected the documents and refused a request to officially resign. Machar was then relieved of his ...

Mr Machar was "in confinement by the government" and his life was "at risk" after "heavily armed vehicles forcefully entered ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ...

The South Sudan government said on Friday that First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate the ...