Both Kiir and Machar are historical leaders of the rebel movement — the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, or SPLM — that ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling 'over the abyss' ...

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

Kiir belongs to the Dinka, South Sudan’s largest ethnic group, while Machar is a Nuer, the second largest tribe. Their rivalry dates back to the pre-independence civil war, which saw Machar acce ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official ... an ethnic Dinka, battled those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer. More than 40,000 people were killed in the ...

But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka ... in the start of a civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people. Machar has served as South Sudan’s No. 2 official on ...

When the civil war ended, he struck a conciliatory ... 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 ...

On Thursday, the country's opposition said that the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar means that the 2018 peace deal that ended a brutal civil war ... Nuer ethnic group, while Kiir is an ethnic ...

Fears of Civil War ... South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011. But they are from rival ethnic groups: Kiir is from the Dinka, the largest, and Machar is from the Nuer, the second-largest.