The North African country of Sudan has long been a powder keg, and tensions sparked bitter conflict between warring factions of the Sudanese military that has led to thousands of deaths.

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur because of escalating violence.