IO, has named Stephan Par Kuol, a government minister, as interim party chairman following the arrest of longtime leader Riek ...

The world's youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state ...

A senior South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) commander has defected from the military’s First Infantry Division in ...

South Sudan's opposition party split on Wednesday, complicating an already fractured political environment as its leader ...

Authorities in Guit County of Unity State have accused the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in-Opposition (SPLA-IO) ...

The political movement of a detained South Sudanese vice president called on followers to ignore army orders not to carry ...

The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

The peace deal ended a five-year civil war that killed around 400,000 people, but South Sudan, which declared independence in 2011, has remained plagued by poverty and insecurity.

In fact, the US response to the famine of the mid-1980s under the then president, Ronald Reagan, whose administration ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar in ... Along with the weapons ban, the army also told Riek Machar's SPLA-IO forces to report to government offices or barracks "to resume their ...