The Latest Breaking News from South Sudan

U.S. officials have deported several migrants to prisons in Africa even though their home countries would have taken them back.

Refugees who left Darfur and Khartoum for South Sudan say they feared being targeted by both sides in conflict

The criminal trial of the South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar has opened in the capital, Juba, with the country’s suspended vice president appearing in a cage alongside his co-accused

International rights group Amnesty International has called for urgent action from authorities in the southern African nation of Eswatini to give five men deported there by the United States access to lawyers and explain why they’ve been held in a maximum-security prison for two months without charges

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The UN Commission on Human Rights has found that authorities used schemes to divert public money.

Amnesty International has called for a public trial for South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar, who faces treason and other charges

South Sudan's Vice President, Riek Machar, has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity over an attack by an ethnic militia on a military base that killed more than 250 soldiers, the justice minister said on Thursday.

Riek Machar faces charges of alleged involvement in attacks against federal forces.