South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw ...

Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

Ukrainian helicopter crew hailed after coming under fire during an evacuation of a military base in South Sudan.

The ongoing crisis in South Sudan has been long in the making – its roots lie in a faltering peace implementation process.

The South Sudan foreign ministry is criticizing the revocation of U.S. visas for all its nationals, calling it unfair and saying it was based on an incident that didn't involve one of its citizens ...

April 8 (UPI) --South Sudan said the revocation of U.S. visas for all its nationals is incorrectly based on an incident that involved a citizen of a different African country. South Sudanese ...

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

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

In July 2005, seven months after the war came to an end, Garang died in a helicopter crash. Kiir, who was his deputy, quickly assumed control of the SPLM. In 2013, two years after South Sudan ...

was seen as a moderate within the SPLM and became its leader in 2005 after the death of John Garang in a helicopter crash He became president of South Sudan on independence and has remained in ...