(Reuters) - The United States on Thursday called on South Sudan President Salva Kiir to release ... and a rise in hate-speech could reignite along ethnic lines the civil war which ended in 2018.

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned.

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the Trump administration has ...

The United Nations in March warned that South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war. The country's vice president and main opposition leader Riek Machar remains under house on ...

The top U.N. official in South ... president, Riek Machar, are willing to engage “and put the interests of their people ahead of their own.” There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan ...

JUBA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country's foreign minister, Ramadan Mohammed Abdallah Goc. In a presidential decree aired Wednesday evening through ...

Museveni’s visit follows a mission by Kenya’s special envoy Raila Odinga, who met Kiir last week. Odinga claimed his request ...

The agreement ended a five-year war between forces loyal to Kiir and his rival Machar, who now serves as First Vice President ...

Picture credit: Majak Kuany/AFP. Whatever the case, the alpha males of South Sudan and Sudan: President Salvar Kiir, Riek Machar and Generals al-Burhan and Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, need to be ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar under house ... and a rise in hate speech could reignite the civil war along ethnic lines.

Tensions between President Salva Kiir and ... that would see a stable and democratic South Sudan. “Rampant misinformation, disinformation and hate speech is also ratcheting up tensions and ...

A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 peace deal as relations between its leader Riek Machar and President Salva ...