Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South SudanThe South Sudanese army recaptured the town of Nasir on 19 April, in a setback for the opposition militia that had seized it ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance ...

There are alarming signs that history is about to repeat as domestic political factions position themselves for a return to ...

Pope Francis kissed the feet of South Sudan's rival leaders in a dramatic call for peace. His death rekindles memories of ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...