Both Kiir and Machar are historical leaders of the rebel movement — the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, or SPLM — that ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling 'over the abyss' ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ... an ethnic Nuer. More than 400,000 people were killed in the war, which ended ...

There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013 largely based on ethnic divisions ...

South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, fell into a bloody civil war soon after gaining independence ... fought those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer. The conflict killed more than 40,000 ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ... an ethnic Nuer. More than 40,000 people were killed in the war, which ended with a 2018 peace agreement that brought Kiir and ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar ... devoted to Machar in the start of a civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 ...

There was widespread killing in cold blood of the Nuer in Juba city and some other South Sudanese states on the first day of the alleged coup. This led to a civil war that was only brought to an end ...

After a bloody civil war, the two leaders signed ... on the border with Ethiopia and Sudan. Most of the White Army fighters are said to belong to Machar's Nuer ethnic group, while Kiir is an ...