The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the arrest of VP Riek Marchar saying it brings South Sudan "closer" to civil war.

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...

The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...

First Vice President Riek Machar reportedly arrested after armed convoy entered his residence in the capital, Juba.

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ...

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic ... that nearly 400,000 people were killed ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on ...