South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar, a long-time rival of the country's President Salva Kiir, has been placed under house arrest, his party says. An armed convoy led by top security ...

The president of South Sudan has arrested his vice president, according to a statement released by the vice president’s party on Thursday, threatening to plunge the oil-rich but deeply ...

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis in Juba, South Sudan ... Kiir ordered the arrest of First VP Riek Machar ...

[Via Reuters] South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar, and his wife have been placed under house arrest following the killing of a military general and 10 others in Nasir, Upper Nile State.

NAIROBI (Reuters) -South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up rebellion, the government said on Friday, the first ...

March 26 (Reuters) - The party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar said on ... entered" his residence and delivered an arrest warrant. In a statement, Machar's SPLM-IO party ...

Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

The South Sudan government said yesterday that first vice-president Riek Machar was “under house arrest”, two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Juba, March 27 (IANS) South Sudanese First Vice President ... Relations for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), condemned the arrest as a violation ...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar has effectively ... The government is yet to comment on Machar's reported house-arrest. But addressing religious leaders on ...

(Reuters) - South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia ...

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