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

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, ...

Nearly 50 people have been ... When South Sudan’s civil war erupted in 2013, Nasir was engulfed in violence. Government troops – largely of Dinka origin – perceived the Nuer-majority town ...

Sudan has been mired in war for two years ... Ethnic rifts soon surfaced in the south, exploding into violence between Kiir’s Dinka people and Machar’s Nuer, a rivalry that remains highly ...

In an apparent attempt 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 ceremonial stick once carried by a ...

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

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 ...

A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation ... tensions between the Nuer and Dinka communities, worsened by the 1991 split of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM ...