Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling "over the abyss" ...

South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...

Speaking later on Thursday in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists that Secretary-General António ...

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

Norway has temporarily closed its embassy in Juba, South Sudan, citing worsening security. President Salva Kiir's dismissal ...

Clashes have broken out between forces loyal to South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar and government troops in Tonga, Panyikang County, according to a local official.

Machar's SPLM-IO party said on Wednesday that the defence minister and chief of national security "forcefully entered" Machar ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as Upper Nile state governor, according to a ...

The party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar said on Wednesday it was trying to locate him after the defence ...