South Sudan's peace agreement lies in tatters after Riek Machar, South Sudan's vice president, was arrested and forcibly detained in Juba yesterday, noting that the reasons for this were unclear.

Concerns are mounting over the detention of Col. Pasquale Chol Mading, a senior officer in the South Sudan People’s Defense ...

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

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLA-IO) party has warned that South Sudan is at risk of descending back into war following the reported arrest of First Vice President Dr Riek ...

There are fears that the escalating tensions and Dr Machar’s arrest could derail the peace agreement, plunge South Sudan back ...

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar has been gradually unravelling, risking a return of the civil war that killed ...

In South Sudan, the world's youngest country, a fragile power-sharing deal is teetering. On Thursday, the country's opposition said that the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar means that the 2018 ...

A fragile peace deal in South Sudan was collapsing on Thursday after the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, ...

The detention of South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar threatens to collapse the fragile peace deal that ended the civil war. The U.N. warns of escalating ethnic conflict while regional powers call ...

Sudan's gold industry has become the lifeblood of its war, with nearly all of the trade channelled through the United Arab ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

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