South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an armed group accused of overrunning a military base and attacking a U JUBA, ...

The peace deal ended a five-year civil war that killed around 400,000 people, but South Sudan, which declared independence in ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar, the long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, was arrested on Wednesday -- a ...

The military wing of South Sudan's opposition said Wednesday that two training bases on the outskirts of the capital Juba ...

JUBA - South Sudan's opposition said on Thursday the arrest overnight of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to ...

South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) on Friday arrested Tot Jock Chieng, Unity State’s Minister of General Education ...

NAIROBI, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the opposition Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army-In opposition (SPLM/A-IO) have intensified clashes this week on ...

There are fears that the escalating tensions and Dr Machar’s arrest could derail the peace agreement, plunge South Sudan back ...

Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it", Uganda's military chief said on Tuesday, but South Sudan's information minister denied the presence of troops ...

Kenya's former prime minister Raila Odinga arrived in Juba on Friday to mediate the escalating crisis in South Sudan, which ...

Government troops earlier this month surrounded Machar’s home in the capital, Juba, and several of his allies were arrested after the White Army overran the military base in Nasir County.

The South Sudan government said on Friday First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was ...