The Latest Breaking News from Salva Kiir

South Sudan is likely to return to full-blown civil war unless the international community takes a radical approach to stabilise the country and re-engage in the peace process.

A US deportee who South Sudanese officials say is not from the country is at the root of the spat.

Editorial: The arrest of vice-president Riek Machar takes the country closer to a second civil war

Sudan’s war is spilling into South Sudan as its army and RSF seek new proxies and partners.

The South Sudan government said on Friday First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate the crisis threatening to end the fragile peace deal between rival factions.

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

The political party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has warned that his arrest on Wednesday invalidates the country's 2018 peace deal.

Riek Machar’s house arrest and armed clashes signal ‘a severe unravelling’ of 2018 peace deal, his party says

South Sudan's opposition said on Thursday the arrest overnight of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, had invalidated their 2018 peace deal and risked plunging the country back into war.