Rumours about Kiir's health have long circulated but the topic is absolutely off-limits for discussion in official circles.

Gen Mohamed Dagalo, commander of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, has been selected to head an alliance of political parties and rebel groups, seen as a step towards setting up a parallel government in ...

SOUTH SUDAN could have been off to a good start. Thanks to its oil riches, the world’s youngest country qualified as a middle-income one when it got independence from Sudan in 2011. The new ...

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam to a ...

A Look at South Sudan, Where the US Is Accused of Quietly Sending Migrants The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba ...

The USA is the preeminent force in men’s Olympic basketball. It has won the gold medal on 14 occasions and frequently assembles some of the sport’s biggest stars on the international stage.

Animated maps show two years of war in Sudan. ... Just south of Khartoum, Gezira - Sudan’s key agricultural state - has recorded 1,485 attacks, which is 13 percent of total incidents.

The outskirts of Juba, South Sudan’s capital, last year. The country endured several years of civil war before a fragile peace agreement in 2018.

Niall O’Connor travelled to South Sudan and the Sudan border to report on the forgotten African crisis. This is his third dispatch from the region.

The maps build on recent aerial surveys and tracking data, which were released in June last year by African Parks and South Sudan’s ministry of wildlife conservation and tourism.

The conflict in South Sudan has caused immeasurable suffering.In the past six years, international observers have estimated 400,000 people have died. Today, at least 4.1 million people remain ...