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

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that ...

Sudan has been mired in war for two years ... Ethnic rifts soon surfaced in the south, exploding into violence between Kiir’s Dinka people and Machar’s Nuer, a rivalry that remains highly ...

Nearly 50 people have been ... When South Sudan’s civil war erupted in 2013, Nasir was engulfed in violence. Government troops – largely of Dinka origin – perceived the Nuer-majority town ...

His party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement In Opposition ... These have been fuelled by ethnic divisions – Kiir is Dinka, while Machar is Nuer – and competing political ambitions.

The same year, Machar was blamed for an ethnic massacre of Dinka people in Bor carried out by ... him with the positions of vice-president of Sudan and chairman of the coordinating council that ...

Machar's role in the south's fight for independence from Sudan had always been controversial ... Machar was blamed for an ethnic massacre of Dinka people in Bor carried out by Nuer fighters ...

Kiir belongs to the Dinka, South Sudan’s largest ethnic group ... The violence killed about 400,000 people before a shaky power-sharing agreement was signed five years later.

Kiir, who heads the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), has ... while Kiir is an ethnic Dinka. Machar's party denies any links with the White Army. According to James Okuk, a political ...

Who is Riek Machar, South Sudan's embattled vice president ... The same year, Machar was blamed for an ethnic massacre of Dinka people in Bor carried out by Nuer fighters loyal to him.

South Sudan's civil war ended in 2018 through a peace agreement between President Salva Kiir's South Sudan People's Liberation ... ethnic groups - Kiir with the Dinka and Machar with the Nuer ...

The world's youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state leaders prepare for another armed showdown. With 57% of the population facing ...