Scary details that North and Southern Sudan are sliding back to war calls for immediate action before its too late. A newly released report has revealed that both...

As Sudan approaches its fifth anniversary of peace, the fragile accord which has held the north and the south together is unravelling and Africa’s biggest country...

The whole village sprang into battle mode. Boys grabbed rusty rifles, women ran to the river to hide in the water, old men stood sentry on the village outskirts,...

The children of this dusty village rarely see cars or trucks, but they fashion toy airplanes out of mud with paper propellers that turn in a hot, dry wind. It’s...

Girls and boys in south Sudan do not need bogeyman scare stories to make them behave: the child snatchers are real. “They come with guns and steal our children,...

Two Rwandan peacekeepers have been killed and three seriously wounded in Sudan’s Darfur region, the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force says. A spokesman...

Fundamentalist Islamic authorities in Sudan inflicted the physical punishment of 50 lashes on a teenage Christian girl for dressing ‘indecently’ in public. The...

At least 47 people have been killed in fighting between rival groups in southern Sudan in the latest round of bloody clashes in the troubled region. This attack was...

Visitors to Rier, in southern Sudan, are welcomed by a large rectangular tank and a freshly-painted sign trumpeting the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company’s...

Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid. Bony-armed...

Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead. The Nuba...

Being a Kenyan citizen, sometimes I wonder what would bring an end to the elusive drought that has claimed quite a number of lives as well as animals. I would be quick...

President Obama’s Sudan strategy, announced this week, is consistent with his approach to foreign policy elsewhere: Engage, don’t isolate. Hold out carrots,...

The Obama administration’s new policy toward Sudan, formally announced Monday, turns the spotlight back on where the troubled nation’s problems first began:...

A Sudanese court sentenced four Islamists to death for a second time on Monday for the murder of a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum last year. The sentencing...

Gunmen from the Lou Nuer tribe attacked a village of the Dinka Hol tribe on Sunday, driving away security forces who were guarding the remote settlement, Duk...

A Sudanese woman has been jailed for a month after refusing to pay a fine for “dressing indecently” by wearing trousers, her lawyers say. Lubna Ahmed...

This is not about pants, Lubna Hussein insists. It is about principles. A woman should be able to wear what she wants and not be publicly whipped for it, says Mrs....

Tribesmen trying to steal cattle attacked a village in southern Sudan, sparking a conflict that killed 46 people, including seven soldiers, the U.N. said Monday. The...

Activists mostly based in the US argue that a genocide is still being carried out against non-Arab tribes scattered across the area’s arid wastes. But General...