South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's army chief after seven months in the post and named a replacement, ...

If fruit flies were South Sudanese, they’d probably outlast most of the country’s top brass. In a nation born in 2011 after a brutal war for independence from Sudan, President Salva Kiir runs a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – A South Sudan presidential spokesman says the army chief of staff has been removed from his post. Paul Malong had been accused of directing fighting in the capital in July that ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the head of the country's military, the police chief and the central bank governor, an announcement made on the state-owned broadcaster SSBC said.

By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's army chief died on Friday, the government said, in a development that further complicates the running of President Salva Kiir's administration amid a ...

South Sudan's deputy president says a cabinet reshuffle this week that saw the removal of multiple senior officials threatens a fragile peace agreement reached with the president in 2018.

A rebellion by South Sudan’s former army chief signals a further escalation in the more than four-year civil war, complicating peace talks just as Africa’s youngest nation faces a looming famine.

South Sudan's army chief of staff Paul Malong, who had been proposed for U.N. sanctions and accused of directing last year's fighting in the capital that left hundreds dead, has been removed from ...