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

Power Struggle Splits SPLM-IO Amid Machar’s Detention | Firstpost Africa | N18G South Sudan faces rising tensions as internal rifts emerge within its main opposition party, the SPLM-IO, following the ...

“Despite a request, she was not granted a visit to His Excellency the First Vice President Dr Riek Machar,” the statement ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir may have found a perfect opportunity to strand his old rival Riek Machar. The emerging wrangles in Machar’s party, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition ...

First Vice President Riek Machar reportedly arrested after armed convoy entered his residence in the capital, Juba.

South Sudan's main opposition party, Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), is in a crisis after members of a splinter group replaced First Vice-President Riek Machar, who is ...

South Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar was arrested and placed under house arrest, his party said. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition, or SPLM-IO, said that several South Sudanese ...

Stephen Par Kuol was named interim chairman in the controversial decision arrived at during a meeting largely boycotted by ...

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

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said Thursday a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ...

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