Rights Groups Criticize New Zimbabwean Law That Curbs Civic SpaceLocal and international rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, are concerned about the signing into law of a new legislation that ...

South Sudan stands at a dangerous crossroads as rising political tensions threaten to derail a fragile peace deal, amid growing fears of renewed conflict in the world's youngest nation, already ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world's ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

Recent clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar have raised fears that South Sudan is on the brink of renewed war. The arrest of Machar last week ...

A Catholic bishop in the Africa’s youngest country has directed the people under his care to participate in daily prayers for peace amid testimonies of rising tension in South Sudan and reports ...

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar is pictured during an interview with Reuters in Rome, Italy in 2019. [Via Reuters] South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar, and his wife have been ...

Juba (AFP) – The South Sudan government said on Friday that First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba ...

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 ...

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 ...