Ugandan troops were deployed to neighbouring South Sudan in March 2025 amid renewed hostility between supporters of the country’s two main leaders. Following their arrival, a post shared on TikTok ...

The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

In July 2005, seven months after the war came to an end, Garang died in a helicopter crash. Kiir, who was his deputy, quickly assumed control of the SPLM. In 2013, two years after South Sudan ...

Ukrainian helicopter crew hailed after coming under fire during an evacuation of a military base in South Sudan.

South Sudan gained its independence in 2011 after ... U.S. News // 15 hours ago 3 bodies recovered from Platte River after private aircraft crash April 19 (UPI) -- The bodies of the pilot and ...

was seen as a moderate within the SPLM and became its leader in 2005 after the death of John Garang in a helicopter crash He became president of South Sudan on independence and has remained in ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) --As the death toll continues to mount in Sudan, the Trump administration on Wednesday for the first time characterized the atrocities in that North African country as ...

Who is Riek Machar, South Sudan's embattled vice president ... McCune died aged 29 in a car crash in Nairobi in 1993. Machar's second wife, Angelina Teny, has previously served as defence minister ...

When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in ... After Garang died in a helicopter crash in 2005, just months after the Sudanese government signed a peace deal with the southern rebels ...