Rights Groups Criticize New Zimbabwean Law That Curbs Civic SpaceLocal and international rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, are concerned about the signing into law of a new legislation that ...

But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013 largely based on ethnic divisions when forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, battled those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer. More than 40,000 ...

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) Karachi Police arrested two suspects on Wednesday for allegedly supplying drugs to students and teachers near educational ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

Some leaders of South Sudan's main opposition party have voted to replace the party's leader, two weeks after government forces arrested him ...

There are fears of more conflict in South Sudan (AP) Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is expected to meet South Sudanese officials on the second day of his trip to the capital, Juba, amid UN ...

The nation is governed by a coalition government, led by President Salva Kiir and five vice presidents, who include Kiir’s rival Riek Machar, the leader of the SPLM/A-IO party. Machar was ...

A Catholic bishop in the Africa’s youngest country has directed the people under his care to participate in daily prayers for peace amid testimonies of rising tension in South Sudan and reports ...

The South Sudan government said yesterday that first vice-president Riek Machar was “under house arrest”, two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate ...

Machar's arrest by forces loyal to President Salva Kiir prompted UN Chief Antonio Guterres on Friday to call on warring parties to "put down the weapons" and "put all the people of South Sudan ...

Juba (AFP) – The South Sudan government said on Friday that First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba ...