or SPLM — that secured South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011. Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter Get the latest ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus of worldwide congratulations and celebrations, ...

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

At least 30 people were killed when a northern South Sudanese town was briefly overrun by an armed youth group, a local ...

President Salva Kiir ordered the arrest of Riek Machar, the opposition said, imperiling a 2018 peace deal. Several embassies ...

The party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar said on Wednesday it was trying to locate him after the defence ...

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

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

The war ended with a peace agreement that gave southerners the right to vote in an independence referendum, and in 2011, South Sudan became the newest country in the world. SPLM-N, which grew out ...

South Sudan is suffering its worst cholera outbreak since it became an independent nation in 2011, the United Nations warned ...

or SPLM — that secured South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011. But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest, and Machar is from the Nuer, the second-largest.