Dynamics are shifting in North Africa as the region navigates a quieter political year in 2025, further presenting a delicate ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some conflicts, like those in Ukraine and Gaza, command global attention. Others, like the one in Sudan, go ...

Since a peace agreement was reached in 2018, elections in South Sudan have been delayed; elites preside over an uneasy power-sharing arrangement. The country suffers from rampant corruption and dire ...

December 17, 2024 (JUBA) – Over 905,000 people have crossed into South Sudan since the outbreak of the Sudan crisis in April 2023, with an additional 337,000 people projected to arrive in 2025 ...

Aid agencies say Sudan is suffering the worst humanitarian catastrophe in recent history, yet the crisis in the northeast African country remains unknown to most of the world. Reporter Aengus Cox ...

The answer for many, sadly, is this one: slums. According to the United Nations, a slum is an area of a city mostly characterized by substandard housing and squalor. Right now, more than a billion ...

CAIRO - Women from Sudan's South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, Human Rights ...

KHARTOUM, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed more than 15 people at a market in El Fasher, western Sudan, state news agency SUNA reported on ...

The European Union (EU) announced today it is sanctioning four senior officials from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), citing their involvement in acts threatening ...