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

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

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 ...

Dr. Machar, who has led the SPLM-IO since its inception, remains under arbitrary detention following a suspicious and ...

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

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital. Machar’s arrest in ...

South Sudan's independence in 2011 was met with hopes for freedom and democracy. However, political rivalry between President ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar, in the garden of the Presidential Palace in Juba, February 3, 2023. [AFP] Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni arrived in South Sudan Thursday after ...

African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba this week for talks aimed at averting a new civil war in the country after its First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house ...