After three years of civil war South Sudan’s economy is collapsing, leaving 4.8 million people food insecure Aid has now arrived in Leer, one of two counties in South Sudan where famine was recently declared – have left 100,000 people facing starvation , aid agencies are ramping up efforts to get to some of South Across all of South Sudan, 4.9 million people are severely food insecure, a 75% increase compared with “The world doesn’t want to see the problem of South Sudan,” says Simon.

coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said its air defences shot down two unmanned drones in the south poorest country, started in 2014 after Houthi rebels seized control of the capital and began pushing south

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the political wing of the South Sudan army, won independence for the south in 2011 following a peace deal with al-Bashir's government in 2005.

possibly give supplementary food at a mobile clinic run by UNICEF in the village of Rubkuai, Unity State, South Modola United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today stressed the need for the leadership of South “All the optimism that accompanied the birth of South Sudan has been shattered by internal divisions, Wide view of the Security Council Chamber during its meeting on South Sudan. He also warned that the dangers of South Sudan’s trajectory should not be underestimated.

(Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Images) On 6 December, Africa’s oldest serving leader, Paul Biya, and his ruling As Africa’s largest producer of timber and the world’s fifth-largest producer of the cocoa, Cameroon well as a local separatist war that has, according to the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa The way I see it, Biya is losing the argument against the English-speaking south-west and north-west Even I, someone who is against post-independence separatism in Africa, cannot help but think how they

The war is now concentrated in Darfur and the Kordofans where Sudan’s Black African minority groups are *Rebecca Tinsley is author of   When the Stars Fall to Earth - a novel of Africa ©2025 PAV-Pan African

Bloody scenes The bloodiest scenes were witnessed in Zamzam, a camp just south of the city. grew out of the Janjaweed, Arab militias that, two decades ago, killed hundreds of thousands of Black African In June 2023, RSF fighters and allied militiamen killed around 15,000 members of the Black African Masalit Adam Issa, 53, lives in el-Fasher’s south with his four children and several members of his extended

The map locates the country of Sudan in northeastern Africa. hospital in Omdurman, in April.Credit ...Ivor Prickett for The New York Times Declan Walsh  is the chief Africa backed by Sudan’s army, the other by a powerful paramilitary group —  have been vying for power in the African Now a famine threatens one of Africa’s biggest countries. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries. June 5, 2024

TENSIONS IN THE SOUTH Armenia's southernmost province of Syunik is at the heart of the dispute and is It also provides a vital trade route for Armenia to Iran, which it borders to the south. Throughout Armenia’s isolated south, the importance of the Iranian connection is clear. road workers are labouring to expand a narrow, zig-zagging mountainside road clogged with lorries from south

Violent Incidents and Reporting Bias in the South Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo from The Banyamulenge inhabit the Southern South Kivu, Fizi, Mwenga, and Uvira territories. The timeframe choice reflects a period of turmoil in the Africa Great Lakes region linked to either contested The “Hamitic Hypothesis” refers to the legacy of colonialism that polarized local communities in the Africa Specifically, in the Africa Great Lakes region and the Banyamulenge, see among others Nigel Eltringham

Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum and Jason Burke Thu 2 Feb 2023 A soldier from the government Central African of fighting between government troops and rebels over the control of lucrative goldmines in Central African resource-rich country, which in recent years has become one of Russia’s main hubs of influence in sub-Saharan Africa military said seven Russians had been killed in the ambush, one of the heaviest single losses by Wagner in Africa “The government in Bangui is totally running out of money,” said Enrica Picco, central Africa director

My childhood in a village in Jonglei State, South Sudan, was filled with the sounds of birds, laughter South Sudan and Sudan are rich with resources and gifted people. Rebecca Deng is a South Sudanese-American author, speaker, and human rights advocate.