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

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

In an apparent attempt to boost his stature as a leader of the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe after the Dinka, Machar has kept in his possession a ceremonial stick once carried by a ...

Mr. Kiir’s Dinka and Mr. Machar’s Nuer, which fought a bloody civil war that erupted roughly two years after South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. But all that has appeared to be ...

The top UN official in South ... Sudan in 2011, following decades of conflict. But by 2013, it descended into a civil war rooted in ethnic divisions, as forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic Dinka ...

When South Sudan’s civil war erupted in 2013, Nasir was engulfed in violence. Government troops – largely of Dinka origin – perceived the Nuer-majority town as enemy territory. Their attacks ...