South Sudan’s main opposition party says its leader Riek Machar has been arrested. JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan’s main ...

The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated, the government said on Friday - the ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the ...

The papers said that Machar was removed from the vice presidency and under arrest. Machar purportedly rejected the documents ...

Riek Machar accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the country with armoured and air force units, and conducting airstrikes there ...

Mediators from the African Union have arrived in South Sudan for urgent talks amid growing fears of a new civil war following the recent arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, which ended a ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.

Machar's SPLM-IO party said on Wednesday that the defence minister and chief of national security "forcefully entered" Machar ...