Some 30 million people in Sudan need aid, says UN Famine in at least five locations in Sudan, says UNICEF Hundreds of children raped in 2024, say aid officials UNITED NATIONS, March 13 (Reuters ...

JUBA, South Sudan — 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 she ...

The African Union says that the announcement of a parallel government in war-torn Sudan risks severing the country, already ravaged by nearly two years of fighting. The paramilitary Rapid Support ...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accused of carrying out crimes against humanity as it fights the country’s army in a 20-month war, has signed a charter with allied political ...

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan closed all schools Thursday for two weeks due to an extreme heat wave that has caused some students to collapse. This is the second time the country — which ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

Among the signatories to the charter is Abdelaziz al-Hilu, a powerful rebel leader who controls vast swathes of territory and troops in South Kordofan state, and who has long demanded that Sudan ...

The recent escalation follows significant advances by the army in central Sudan and the capital Khartoum in its multi-front offensive against the RSF. Late on Saturday, RSF signed a charter with ...

Sudan’s gold industry rebounded last year as the government took steps to bolster revenue amid a civil war, including signing mining deals with companies from China, Russia and Qatar. The North ...

Nairobi: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and a coalition of political and armed groups have signed a founding charter to establish a parallel government in the war-ravaged country ...

Uganda has deployed troops in South Sudan as cracks within the transitional government widen threatening to throw the youngest country into another civil war. The deployment of troops in South ...

One person working with the United Nations peace-keeping mission to South Sudan and several members of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces were killed during an evacuation exercise in the ...