South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

There are alarming signs that history is about to repeat as domestic political factions position themselves for a return to ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance ...

Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South SudanThe South Sudanese army recaptured the town of Nasir on 19 April, in a setback for the opposition militia that had seized it ...

Fighting between rival forces resumes in South Sudan, while a full-scale civil war rages in neighbouring Sudan.

A UN peacekeeping soldier patrols a street near Bangui’s Koudoukou mosque, Central African Republic, before the arrival of ...

South Sudanese government forces have retaken the town of Nasir which had been a flashpoint in a deepening political crisis, an army spokesman said on Sunday.Clashes around Nasir in the northeastern ...

Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan's paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp's central ...

The World Food Programme said yesterday that it was suspending aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia because of a lack of funding.

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...