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 ...

South Sudanese forces have arrested the peacebuilding minister, a spokesman for Vice President Riek Machar said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the country's fragile peace process 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 ...

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.

He alleged that the SPLM-IO, led by Vice President Riek Machar, a longtime rival of President Salva Kiir, had “incited” local youths to attack army positions. “What these armed youths did in ...