The Latest Breaking News from South Sudan

Observers and opposition says prosecution of Riek Machar for crimes in relation to attack by rebel militia puts peace deal at risk

An international ceasefire monitor says parties to South Sudan’s faltering peace agreement have recruited new fighters for a conflict that observers have warned could widen again into civil war

Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, met with then US president Barack Obama at the White House in 2011 to discuss the future of the newly independent state.

The latest break between two military and political leaders risks spelling civil war again for the embattled nation.

The criminal trial of the South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar has opened in the capital, Juba, with the country’s suspended vice president appearing in a cage alongside his co-accused

International rights group Amnesty International has called for urgent action from authorities in the southern African nation of Eswatini to give five men deported there by the United States access to lawyers and explain why they’ve been held in a maximum-security prison for two months without charges

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The UN Commission on Human Rights has found that authorities used schemes to divert public money.

Amnesty International has called for a public trial for South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar, who faces treason and other charges