One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

The number of countries in the world does not change very often, but when it does, mapmakers (and their digital counterparts) ...

A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan’s Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport, killing 20 ...

Missiles are flying above civilians' homes as fighters fire heavy artillery in Goma's city centre, an International Committee ...

This comes around two weeks after the army reclaimed the Al-Jazira state capital Wad Madani, just south of Khartoum ...

The Sudanese army broke a paramilitary siege on one of its key Khartoum-area bases on Friday, paving the way to also freeing ...

According to news agency AFP, the streets of Juba appeared calm Saturday evening with a heavy police presence, though Sudanese-owned businesses remained closed. South Sudan president Salva Kiir called ...

In 2004, I traveled to Darfur, the western region of Sudan, with then-Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and my chief of staff, Dan Scandling. We came back to the U.S. and shared what we had seen.

Many kanabi come from neighboring South Sudan — which declared independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of civil war — or migrated generations earlier from the western region of Darfur ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Khatmallah Ali, 30, a South Sudanese whose husband is from Sudan’s western Darfur region, holds her one ...

The West is seeing Kim Jong Un's army in action. The North Korean soldiers are brutal zealots undeterred in the face of death.

Neighbouring South Sudan said on Wednesday that it had summoned Sudan's ambassador to protest against "the loss of lives among our innocent citizens". Wad Madani, which is 87 miles (140km ...