El Fasher became a byword among locals and international observers for the horrors that have been inflicted in the Sudanese ...

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, ending decades of civil war. Two years later, another civil war ...

As the civil war rages on in Sudan, tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the latest front in the conflict ...

Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked like the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach for ending the civil war in Sudan. Since the conflict began ...

Fears that South Sudan - the world's youngest nation - could plunge into a new civil war have intensified after the party of suspended Vice-President Riek Machar called for "regime change". The call ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As of December 2025, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces appear to be making gains, ...

On Monday, the treason trial of First Vice President Riek Machar opened. It followed a bloody weekend in which at least 48 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in clashes between government ...