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 ...

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 is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” into another civil war and speak with one voice ...

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 ...

A convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles entered Machar's residence in the capital Juba late on Wednesday and arrested him, according to a statement issued by a member of his party -- a dramatic ...

(FILES) South Sudanese President Salva Kiir (L), South Sudan's opposition leader Riek Machar (R) and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (C)"Hemeti", Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council ...