Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

The ongoing crisis in South Sudan has been long in the making – its roots lie in a faltering peace implementation process.

Then, on Thursday, Kiir sacked the governor of Upper Nile State, who hailed from Machar's party. A young nation, with a troubled past. The UN has a large mission to South Sudan, with some 20,000 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed ... Kiir and Machar together in a government of national unity. Under the agreement, elections were supposed to be held ...

In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence referendum, and South Sudan officially ... spread to the states of Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Unity.

South Sudan Is Teetering on the Edge of Renewed Civil ... that brought Kiir and Machar together in a government of national unity. Under the agreement, elections were supposed to be held in ...

More than 400,000 people were killed in the war, which ended with a 2018 peace agreement that brought Mr Kiir and Mr Machar together in a government of national unity. South Sudan’s president ...

The chaos within the governing party, the SPLM, and the broken relationship between the two major parties and a devastating economic crisis seem to be pushing South Sudan towards the brink of another ...