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

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, now under arrest, celebrated the peace accord in 2018, but the unity government is falling apartImage: Bullen Chol/AP/dpa/picture alliance Children at risk ...

It established a unity ... the South Sudan People's Defence Forces clashed with the White Army militia group. The White Army took control of the town of Nasir in the oil-rich Upper Nile State.

More than 20 of Machar's political and military allies in the unity government and ... Nasir County of Upper Nile State. Watch moreUN says South Sudan leaders fuelling violence and instability ...

It ended in a deal that brought both men together in a fractious national unity ... The United States Bureau of African Affairs urged Kiir to release Machar and called on South Sudan's leaders ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed ... that brought Kiir and Machar together in a government of national unity. Under the agreement, elections were supposed to be held in February ...

New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera. The biggest development was an alliance in February between ...

South Sudan ... unity government that was meant to pave the way for elections. The current crisis was sparked at the ...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State ... holding South Sudanese flags march at the Juba Stadium, as part of the closing ceremony of the National Unity Day events in Juba, South Sudan, on January ...

Former rebel leader and South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar ... years” if the world’s newest nation returned to “a state of war”, following reports that Machar was arrested ...

South Sudan is on the verge of another civil war ... that brought Kiir and Machar together in a government of national unity. Under the agreement, elections were supposed to be held in February ...