“Despite a request, she was not granted a visit to His Excellency the First Vice President Dr Riek Machar,” the statement ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a major political shake-up, South Sudan’s opposition party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) ...

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

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

The South Sudan government said yesterday that first vice-president Riek Machar was “under house arrest”, two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate ...

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 ...

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 ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — 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.