The United States has ordered all its non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, amid rising tensions in the country.

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

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JUBA, South Sudan - A United Nations (UN) helicopter was attacked in South Sudan on Friday, officials said, just as tensions ...

A fragile power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar has been threatened by recent clashes between their allied forces in the northeastern Upper Nile ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

South Sudan forces have arrested the oil minister and deputy head of the army, both allies of First Vice-President Riek Machar, as fears grew on Wednesday for the country's fragile ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar's home in the capital on Wednesday and ...

At least 58 members of the opposition SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Riek Machar, have defected to President Salva Kiir’s ruling SPLM party. The move took place during a campaign rally in ...

The United Nations on Tuesday reported deadly clashes in northern South Sudan which killed civilians and left a peacekeeper wounded. The oil-rich but impoverished nation, which only achieved ...

He accused the armed opposition (SPLM-IO), led by South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar, of instigating the ongoing incidents in Nasir County and called for mutual respect between the ...