South Sudan

Sudan's legitimate rulers have right to seek Wagner's services: Russia

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov says Sudan and other countries have right to turn to Wagner mercenary group's services amid fighting raging between forces loyal to country's two top generals since April 15.

Sudanese, foreigners flee amid fragile truce

Witnesses report air strikes and paramilitary forces fire anti-aircraft weapons while WHO warns of "huge biological risk" after fighters occupy laboratory in capital Khartoum.

Thousands flee Sudan conflict, arrive in neighbouring South Sudan

Around 5,000 people reach the border town of Renk in South Sudan, however, the number would be bigger than that, according to local media reports.

Thousands flee Sudan capital as clashes rage despite scheduled truce

Loud explosions and heavy gunfire were heard in the capital on Wednesday morning, as witnesses said plumes of thick black smoke emanated from buildings around the army headquarters in central Khartoum.

Explained: How an old power struggle erupted in deadly Sudan violence

Tensions have been brewing for weeks between Sudan's two most powerful generals, who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation's transition to democracy.

Pope urges end to ethnic hatred at open-air mass in South Sudan

The pope had promised to travel to South Sudan, when he hosted rival leaders Salva Kiir and Riek Machar at a Vatican retreat but four years since that meeting violence remains a problem in the country.

Pope Francis takes peace mission to South Sudan after DRC

The "pilgrimage of peace" is the first-ever papal visit to the country since the predominantly Christian nation gained independence from Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011.

30,000 civilians flee as raids, clashes engulf South Sudan's eastern states

UN agencies express 'grave concern' over ongoing violence and call on South Sudan's leaders to investigate and hold accountable all perpetrators of the conflict.

Ethnic fighting kills dozens in eastern South Sudan

A government official says 56 people have lost their lives in four days of ethnic clashes in the eastern Jonglei state.

Tribal clashes kill at least 12 people in Sudan's Darfur

Authorities declared a state of emergency and imposed a nighttime curfew in Beleil to help stop the clashes.

Sudan's Darfur region: at least 11 killed in clashes

Conflicts in Sudan's far-flung regions have killed around 900 people this year and driven almost 300,000 from their homes, UN office reports.

South Sudan violence leaves 166 civilians dead, thousands displaced: UN

Deadly conflict is a continuation of fighting that started in August in a village in Upper Nile over grazing areas and use of natural resources and has since spread to other states.