To sweeten the deal, outsiders might now offer to recognise a SAF-led government in Khartoum and help pay the bill for the devastated city’s reconstruction. Yet competing interests among the army’s domestic allies could scupper any such deal.

The Sudanese military recaptured the capital of Khartoum on Wednesday, the military chief announced, a significant victory nearly two years into the civil war that has killed more than 150,000 ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

After nearly two years of civil war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, there is a potential turning point. The army has recaptured the presidential palace and the center of Khartoum.

Christopher Tounsel has previously received funding from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the ...

March 28, 2025. Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a growi

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that a peace agreement in South Sudan was in a shambles, telling the country's leaders to put down the weapons and put all the people of South Sudan first.

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital. Machar’s arrest in Juba on Wednesday followed detentions of his allies in the government and the army,