Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks the latest turn in the turbulent relationship with his rival, President ...

A group of senior SPLM-IO party members in Juba on Wednesday endorsed Stephen Par Kuol, the country’s peacebuilding minister, ...

Stephen Par Kuol was named interim chairman in the controversial decision arrived at during a meeting largely boycotted by ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

The papers said that Machar was removed from the vice presidency and under arrest. Machar purportedly rejected the documents and refused a request to officially resign. Machar was then relieved of his ...

South Sudan's main opposition party, Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), is in a crisis after members of a splinter group replaced First Vice-President Riek Machar, who is ...

Sudan: SPLM-IO infighting deepens as officials accuse Peace Minister of plotting to replace Dr. Machar - The Maravi Post ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...

Mr Machar was "in confinement by the government" and his life was "at risk" after "heavily armed vehicles forcefully entered his residence", the party says.

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In ...