South Sudan government has defended the controversial detention of allies of First Vice President Riek Machar, warning that they had a hand in skirmishes in Upper Nile State. Government spokesperson Michael Makuei confirmed the arrests, saying the officials had been detained due to “conflict with the law.”

The Council of the South Sudan Bar Association on Thursday announced that 83 lawyers have lost their practicing licenses in an ongoing registration aimed at reorganizing the lawyers’ body.

An alarming surge of violence in South Sudan’s Nasir County, Upper Nile State, is putting communities at risk and threatening to plunge the region into deeper crisis.

Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid a global coffee crisis caused mainly by climate change.

South Sudan, the world's youngest country, ended a five-year civil war in 2018 with a power-sharing agreement between bitter rivals President Salva Kiir and his deputy Machar.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overrun an army base in the country’s north.