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South Sudan tensions: Kiir, Museveni hold talks in Juba
Tensions have peaked since the house arrest of first vice-president Riek Machar last week, following weeks of mounting ...
Fears of civil war in South Sudan stem from political rivalry between the president and his deputy
Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...
The Daily Monitor on MSN5d
Who is Salva Kiir, the former rebel leading fractured South Sudan?
When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus ... both promised under peace agreements. Tensions ...
CNN5d
The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
The deal ended a five-year-civil war, which killed an estimated 400,000 people. South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group ...
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UN warns VP’s arrest brings South Sudan “one step closer” to civil war
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the arrest of VP Riek Marchar saying it brings South Sudan "closer" to civil war.
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Uganda is only postponing South Sudan’s day of judgment
A government built along ethnic designs undermines the state by relying on blood brothers who work for the tribe and not the country ...
Riek Machar, South Sudan's embattled vice president
The two men, now in their early 70s, launched a conflict in 2013 that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, as the newly ...
The Associated Press on MSN10d
South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, UN envoy says
The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country ... ethnic divisions when forces loyal to Kiir, an ethnic ...
South Sudan’s Vice President Has Been Placed Under House Arrest, Party Says
The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...
South Sudan says arrested VP Machar tried to stir rebellion
South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up ...
U.S. News & World Report8d
Who Is Riek Machar, South Sudan's Embattled Vice President?
In an apparent attempt to boost his stature as a leader of the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe after the Dinka, Machar has kept in his possession a ceremonial stick once carried by a ...