African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after ...

Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Ministry rejected reports of a rift with South Sudan, with PS Korir Sing’Oei stating there was not an ...

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

Recent clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar have raised fears that South Sudan is on the brink of renewed war. The arrest of Machar last week was ...

Pope Francis appealed to South Sudan leaders to "lower the tension in the country" as Catholic bishops in Sudan and ...

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

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said its leader Riek Machar has been arrested as the U.N. called ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 27 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned with the escalating situation in South Sudan, warning that the country is on the brink of civil war, his ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...

Both Kiir and Machar are historical leaders of the rebel movement — the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, or SPLM — that ...

It "effectively brings the agreement to a collapse, thus the prospect for peace and stability in South Sudan has now been put into serious jeopardy," he said. People pose along a street in Juba ...