The president's death could usher in a replay of the military uprisings that have caused instability in the country's governance. Read more »
Almost 100 people have been killed in Jonglei state in one week, amid reports that attackers have included defectors from the South Sudanese army, the Sudan People's Liberation ... Read more »
The White House has announced that five U.S. military officers will join the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Thousands of South Sudanese have been displaced, and 3000 have ... Read more »
A French report says the missile which brought down the plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana, sparking the 1994 genocide, was fired from forces serving his ... Read more »
Six months after South Sudan celebrated its status as a newly independent country, the disputed border area with Sudan has become a flashpoint and a gateway for tens of thousands ... Read more »
The African Union has asked the United Nations to authorise an increase of its peacekeeping force in war-torn Somalia amid mounting attacks by Islamist rebels. Read more »
A spate of attacks has forced Adamawa State to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in two areas to check possible reprisal attacks, while hundreds fled their homes in Potsikum, north-east ... Read more »
President Goodluck Jonathan says the activities of the militant Boko Haram sect are a more serious threat to the country than the Biafran civil war. Read more »
The Rwandan rebel group, FDLR, has killed 39 people in the Shabunda region of South Kivu, human rights groups have told Radio Okapi. Read more »
Fighters have launched attacks on other groups and on government military barracks in Jonglei State in an outbreak of ethnically-based violence. Read more »
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