Department of Homeland Security officials released information on eight individuals flown on a chartered removal flight bound for South Sudan May 20. All were convicted of serious crimes in the United States,

Kiir, 73, promoted sanctioned ally Second Vice President Benjamin Bol Mel as his SPLM party's deputy chairperson, according to a decree read on the state broadcaster on Tuesday night, weeks after the United Nations said the country was on the brink of civil war.