South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday dismissed the undersecretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and appointed Agum Awet Akot, the daughter of a former ruling party official, as ...

President Salva Kiir said he was reappointing his rival as first vice president, an important condition of a deal to end more than two years of war.

Mvolo County Commissioner Rubben Amaai Majok has defected from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit (L) gestures as he leaves after attending peace talks with the South Sudanese rebels in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, March 6, 2015. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri ...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir left the capital on Wednesday and headed to Ethiopia ahead of a planned meeting with his rival and rebel leader Riek Machar ahead of planned talks to try to ...

Presidential Guard troops stormed the compound of former Vice President Riek Machar Tuesday after President Salva Kiir (desk: two I's is correct) Mayardit accused him of masterminding an attempted ...

Last month, Salva Kiir borrowed $600 million dollars from China. He told the Chinese government that he wanted the money to pay a six-month salary of all South Sudanese civil servants.

Just five years ago, as dawn unfolded on January 9, 2011, millions of South Sudanese took the final steps on our seventy-year journey to independence. By barge and bus, on animal and foot, we came ...

The President of the government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit today presented a special keynote address at the annual legislative conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, who has been in office for over a decade, will run for president in elections due to be held in about two years, his party said on Tuesday.