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South Sudan has started holding a trial for First Vice President Riek Machar, who has been sacked by his decades-long rival, President Salva Kiir, and charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity in relation to rebellion and an attack by a militia linked with ethnic tensions. Earlier...

The criminal trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president began in the capital Monday as Riek Machar appeared in a cage alongside his co-defendants. President Salva Kiir suspended Machar as his deputy earlier this month after justice authorities filed criminal charges for Machar’s alleged role in...

United Nations investigators have accused South Sudanese authorities of plundering one of the world’s youngest and most impoverished nations’ wealth of billions of dollars in public funds stolen as the majority of the country deals with a deepening food crisis. In a report made public on Tuesday...

Riek Machar, South Sudan’s first vice president, has been charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity. The charges stem from his alleged involvement in attacks by a militia against federal forces in March, the justice minister announced on Thursday. South Sudan’s government claims the...

Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in a conflict-stricken part of South Sudan. People in 11 of 13 counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state now face emergency levels of hunger, the World Food Program, the U.N. Children’s Fund, and the Food and Agriculture...

An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Thursday to five years in jail for undermining national unity, drawing an expression of “regret” from France, which called for a swift and dignified end to the situation. Sansal has been detained in Algeria since November, spending...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said. The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread...

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned. The situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), as tension between forces allied with President Salva Kiir and...

South Sudan has seen an “alarming regression” as clashes in recent weeks in the country’s northeast threaten to undo years of progress towards peace, the United Nations commission on human rights for the country has warned. The statement from Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the UN Commission on Human...

A South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers have been killed after a United Nations helicopter trying to evacuate them from the northern town of Nasir came under attack, the government has said. The UN said the incident, which could deal a blow to an already fragile peace process, was “utterly...