The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks the latest turn in the turbulent relationship with his rival, President ...

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Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a growing rift between ...

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

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

Riek Machar is a prominent figure in South Sudan’s history, first as a rebel leader in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement ...

The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country’s north between government troops and a rebel militia, known as the White Army.

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