When power is informal and succession rules are unclear, chaos follows. This is ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

President William Ruto has urged South Sudan President Salva Kiir and the first Vice President Riek Machar to engage in dialogue in a bid to foster peace.In a statement, the President implored the two ...

South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice ...

South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday, after the arrests ...

Aldigair cautioned against dismissing the events taking place in Nairobi related to the launch of the parallel government. He argued that having two governments would exacerbate Sudan’s existing ...

Nairobi - The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched investigations into the fatal shooting of a police officer. Raphael Wambua (right) was shot in Ruaraka. Photo: NPS/Raphael ...

South Sudan endured a brutal five-year civil war between Kiir and his rival, Vice President Riek Machar. A 2018 peace agreement required the unification of armed forces ahead of repeatedly postponed ...

At least 58 members of the opposition SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Riek Machar, have defected to President Salva Kiir’s ruling SPLM party. The move took place during a campaign rally in ...

The United Nations on Tuesday reported deadly clashes in northern South Sudan which killed civilians and left a peacekeeper wounded. The oil-rich but impoverished nation, which only achieved ...

He accused the armed opposition (SPLM-IO), led by South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar, of instigating the ongoing incidents in Nasir County and called for mutual respect between the ...

As the death toll rises from South Sudan’s spiraling political and ethnic conflict, the ability of the U.N. to enforce its peacekeeping mandate in the country is coming under increased scrutiny.