Investigating a burial site at the ancient village of Tombos, archaeologists have re-written their own rule book when it ...

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden ...

“South Sudan is one major escalation away from slipping into a new civil war,” said Alan Boswell, the Horn of Africa director at the International Crisis Group. “Should the government ...

“This region cannot take another war,” says Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN mission in South Sudan. Sadly, that does not mean it won’t get one. Sign up to the Analysing Africa, a weekly ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — After being gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, the 28-year-old tried in vain to get help. Some clinics were closed, others told her to return later and ...

(Credit: Sam Mednick/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Violence is worsening in South Sudan according to the Vatican representative to the African country, saying the world’s newest nation is ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has consistently predicted that East Africa will be the continent’s fastest-growing ...

Addis Ababa: The African Union on Wednesday ... controlling eastern and northern Sudan and the RSF dominating almost all of western Darfur and parts of the south. The RSF and its allies last ...

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again on the precipice of civil war. Tensions in the strife-torn country ...

Uganda says it has deployed troops in South Sudan's capital South Sudan requested deployment, says Uganda military South Sudan information minister says no troops present Tensions rose after ...

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a bloc of eight East African nations, held a virtual heads of state meeting on Wednesday aimed at heading off a crisis in South Sudan.