South Sudan’s president has called for dialogue amid concerns that the country could relapse into a civil war due to the ...

Uganda sent troops to support Kiir when civil war broke out in the country in 2013, just two years after it had gained independence from Sudan. The war between Kiir and Machar lasted five years and ...

President Salva Kiir’s leadership trajectory reveals a dangerous shift toward absolute authoritarian rule, specifically ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In ...

South Sudan's main opposition party's political branch, SPLM-IO, has named Stephan Par Kuol, a government minister, as interim party chairman following the arrest of longtime leader Riek Machar.

South Sudan has officially been at peace since a 2018 agreement concluded the five-year conflict that resulted in hundreds of thousands of fatalities, yet violence among competing communities often ...

In a recent opinion piece published by Radio Tamazuj titled “Kiir and Museveni’s Coordinated Effort to Silence Riek ...

Machar, the country’s vice president whose political rivalry with President Salva Kiir has repeatedly threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, is accused of subversion.

A fragile peace deal in South Sudan was collapsing on Thursday after the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, threatened to throw the country back ...

South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings to discuss outstanding issues to the peace deal on Oct. 20, 2019. Credit: AP/Sam Mednick ...

South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings to discuss outstanding issues to the peace deal on Oct. 20, 2019.