Expect the world to change overnight. Africa’s battle-scarred South Sudan on Saturday is poised to become the newest country on Earth despite renewed attacks launched by Sudan last week as ...

The World Bank Group has played an important role in Sudan’s development since 2005, and is deepening its engagement in South Sudan as it prepares for independence. With last week’s “mapathon” and ...

27 August 2008: Looking for the 1956 Map of Sudan. Â In June 2008 the chairperson of the Southern Sudan component of the Sudanese North-South Border Demarcation Commission, Riek Dogoal Juer, revealed ...

Two weeks ago, South Sudan was best known as the youngest African country, created with much international fanfare in 2011. Today, it may be the next Rwanda.

They have been extensively documented, and South Africa has played a key role in talks to try to end the current conflict between South Sudan’s warring parties, as well as in the peace process ...