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

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the arrest of VP Riek Marchar saying it brings South Sudan "closer" to civil war.

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

The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on ...

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic ... that nearly 400,000 people were killed ...

The militants are said to mostly be from Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, while Kiir is an ethnic Dinka. Machar’s party denies ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

The latest tensions have erupted in the north, where government forces are clashing with a militia known as the White Army, ...

The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country’s north between government troops and a rebel militia, known as the ...