In the early years of South Sudan’s independence ... Tensions erupted into civil war in December 2013, following a political struggle between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek ...

Garang’s vision was of a “New Sudan”, governed in a federal system where regions would have significant autonomy, not ...

However, this all changed in 2011 when 99% of South Sudanese voters chose to secede from Sudan and South Sudan officially ...

Once Africa's largest country, Sudan has suffered decades of civil wars due to ancient divisions – and (of course) the oil.

When the war started back in April 2023, many hoped the neighbours in the region, including the regional bloc, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) would be the first weapon to solve the ...

Once the largest country in Africa, representing over 8% of the continent and nearly 2% of the global population, Sudan ...

Sudan has been engulfed in a severe humanitarian and political crisis since the civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF ... Neighboring countries like Chad, South Sudan and the Central ...

Buoyed by their success, gold smugglers on the Sudanese-Egyptian border are now trafficking a wide array of goods, including fuel, weapons, and human beings. But they have been met with a brutal ...

Sudan lifted a force majeure notice issued in March on crude exports from South Sudan, signaling resumption of oil shipments through a pipeline that had been damaged in a war zone. Sudan declared ...

Egypt and South Sudan. The war began in April 2023 when long-simmering tensions between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum ...