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 ...

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 ...

South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw ...

(Reuters) -The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks the latest turn in the turbulent relationship with his rival, ...

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

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

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said the cause of death was a stroke that put him into a coma and led to ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s ...

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 ...

The finding comes in its latest brief on violence against civilians, which also reveals a similar rise in incidents of ...

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 ...