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 ...

US urges South Sudan to release Vice President Machar UN warns of potential resurgence of ethnic conflict Peace deal between Kiir and Machar at risk of collapse African Union, regional bloc ...

Reports that Machar - a longtime rival of President Salva Kiir - was arrested on Wednesday prompted international calls for restraint. Neighbouring Kenya sent its former prime minister ...

(Reuters) - 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 ...

Riek Machar was "in confinement by the government", and his life was "at risk", opposition spokesperson Pal Mai Deng said in a video statement sent to the media on Wednesday night. "His bodyguards ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.

NAIROBI - South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the country with armoured and air force units, and conducting ...

South Sudan's ex-vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar gestures as he arrives for a meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir at the presidential office in Juba on October 19, 2019 ...

March 27 (UPI) --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 ...

Juba, South Sudan — South Sudan’s main opposition party said its leader Riek Machar has been arrested as the U.N. called on all parties to uphold the 2018 agreement that ended the country's ...