From a distance, Sudan's ongoing conflict appears like a straightforward violent confrontation between two major armed factions: the Sudanese armed forces, or SAF, and the paramilitary Rapid ...

Unity State, a low-lying and flood-prone region in the central northern part of the country, has been listed as particularly vulnerable to famine. The last formal declaration of famine anywhere in the ...

A long-running state of insecurity has recently intensified in Unity State – one of South Sudan’s 10 states – resulting in many innocent lives being lost. The security crisis is being stoked ...

Kenya has strongly hit back at the government of Sudan following fresh accusations by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) alleging ...

Sudan’s newly appointed Prime Minister, ... Unity. Date. 2025-06-02 02:15:03 ... and called on the international community to actively back the country’s reconstruction initiatives. ...

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Qatar reaffirms support for Sudan’s unity, sovereignty Doha calls on ‘all parties to prioritize supreme national interest and to prevent country from risk of division’ Nour Abuaisha and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Another conflict is looming in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its ...

In late December 2013, the UN Security Council authorized a rapid deployment of about 6,000 security forces, in addition to the 7,600 peacekeepers already in the country, to aid in state-building ...