South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a day earlier

The South Sudan opposition party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO), said Friday that it

Despite many such dire warnings, the belligerents remain deaf to appeals, whether from within Sudan or abroad, to cease fighting, agree to a humanitarian truce, and open avenues to the safe delivery of humanitarian relief.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have formed the largest military coalition in Sudan's history, incorporating six armed factions, including the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council (SLM-TC),

What we are seeing is darkly reminiscent of the 2013 and 2016 civil wars,' says Antonio Guterres - Anadolu Ajansı

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 personal devices and placed under house arrest before being moved to another building within the same compound.

Suspected paramilitary drones attacked civilian and military sites in Ed-Damazin, the capital of Sudan’s Blue Nile state, on Thursday for the first time since the country’s war began, residents reported.

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

"While I think that the army will not 'win' outright--meaning full control over all of Sudan--it can push RSF into becoming another Western Sudan rebel group, similar to the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLA-Abdul Wahid)," he explained. "The RSF could end up ...