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, ...

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

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

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 says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the ...

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 ...

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 ...