When peace is offered and war is chosen, when compassion is preached and cruelty prevails, we are not merely rejecting a message — we are rejecting our own humanity.

South Sudan's rival leaders should 'honour' Pope Francis' legacy by ending the country's conflict, the Vatican's diplomatic ...

Escalating violence between factions led by the president and vice president, compounded by regional proxy dynamics, risks ...

Months of clashes between Kiir's forces and those loyal to the first vice-president Machar, who was arrested in March, have ...

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

The United Nations called for a cessation of hostilities between the army and fighters loyal to South Sudan’s deputy ...

Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South SudanThe South Sudanese army recaptured the town of Nasir on 19 April, in a setback for the opposition militia that had seized it ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance ...

There are alarming signs that history is about to repeat as domestic political factions position themselves for a return to ...

South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...