South Sudan is teetering on the edge of a renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation has warned, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest peace effort.

South Sudan is on the verge of another civil war, the UN’s top official in the country warned Monday, citing escalating ...

The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country’s north between government troops and a rebel militia, known as the ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

Paramilitary shelling on a mosque in eastern Khartoum has killed at least five people and injured dozens, a Sudanese pro-democracy lawyers’ group has said. The attack on Monday, which has been blamed ...

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid ...

South Sudan is suffering its worst cholera outbreak since it became an independent nation in 2011, the United Nations warned ...

UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy ...

Sudan's army has recaptured the presidential palace from rival paramilitaries and is pushing ahead to wrest full control of ...

South Sudan and Chad have condemned threats made by a top Sudanese general, warning of the risk of regional escalation.

International diplomacy has failed to bring an end to the war in one of Africa’s largest countries, but recent events suggest ...

A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war ...