In response Kiir's government detained several officials from Machar's party SPLM-IO, including the petroleum minister and the deputy head of the army. The mounting standoff has fuelled fears that ...

NAIROBI, March 20 (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic ...

The 2018 peace agreement, signed by President Salva Kiir, Dr. Machar, and other leaders to end five years of civil war, has seen delayed implementation amid ongoing violence. Key provisions ...

The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday warned that dengue cases may surge with the onset of the rainy season. As the country prepares for the rainy months, the health department, advised the public ...

In deploying Ugandan soldiers to Juba, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni moved as a guarantor of the peace process that keeps Kiir and Machar together in a delicate government of national unity ...

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) also first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said that Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan’s capital Juba to “secure it” as tensions between President ...

Although the 2018 peace deal between Kiir’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and Machar’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM/IO) halted major fighting, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after ...

Mounting tension in South Sudan leads to clashes as power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar unravels. South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, left, and Vice ...

The statement came amid escalating tensions between Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar, raising fears that their fragile peace deal could collapse and a conflict could resume. "We shall protect the ...

The arrests in Juba and deadly clashes around the northern town of Nasir are widely seen as jeopardising a 2018 peace deal that ended a five-year civil war between forces loyal to Kiir and Machar ...